Tag Archives: Soviet Union
By Dawit Solomon, I do not live in Canada, and have very little knowledge of the country but I have travelled throughout Canada like to Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Québec City to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Canada, Demographics of Eritrea, Eritrea, eritrean, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Mengistu Hailemariam, Peter Worthington, Soviet Union
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Eritrea’s hardline regime has jailed at least 10,000 political prisoners, many in “unimaginably atrocious conditions”, rights group Amnesty International said in a report Thursday criticising the situation in the Red Sea state. With political opposition banned, independent media quashed and … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Pan African News
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Tagged Amnesty International, Asmara, Eritrea, eritrean, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Soviet Union, United States
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By: Paul B. Henze PBH: What is your position on separatism? MZ: We are not separatist. We want a united Ethiopia. But we do not want a centralized Shoan-dominated Ethiopia. I just read the speech you gave to the Eritreans … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Asmara, Derg, EPLF, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Soviet, Soviet Union
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By Yilma Bekele Animal trainers use a whip with a stiff handle to show who the boss is. A whip is used to gain control and achieve compliance using pain. During slavery in the US whipping was a powerful weapon … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed, Yilma Bekele
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Tagged China, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, People of Ethiopia, Soviet Union, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, TPLF, United States
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By Jeremy Salt – Ankara In a recent article (‘Viewpoint: Echoes of Spanish civil war in Syria’, BBC News Magazine, October 9, 2012), Fouad Ajami has drawn parallels between the Spanish civil war and the conflict in Syria. He compares … read more »
At the demise of communist bloc in the late 80s and early 90s, two socio-political thinkers rose to theorize on the emerging world order and the shape of the age to come. The first was Francis Fukuyama who predicted the … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Afghanistan, Boko Haram, Cold War, Francis Fukuyama, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers, Osama bin Laden, Soviet Union, Taliban
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One in every five military prison inmates is of Ethiopian descent. A new Israeli military unit will work on integrating Ethiopian recruits, who account for 50 percent of all army prison inmates. Army Radio reported that Brig.-Gen. Eli Shermeister, who … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, IndepthAfrica, latest ethiopian news, Meles Zenawi, news ethiopia, Ogaden, Prison, Soviet Union, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, United States
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Zekre Lebona As soon as I was released, the French Embassy asked me to translate a booklet on the “Political Program of the United National Front of Kampuchea” that I had brought from the bush. Its contents foreshadowed the horror. … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged East Africa, Eritrea, eritrea africa, Eritrea news, Eritrea-Ethiopia, Eritreans, eritreans news, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Khmer Rouge, Sierra Leone, Soviet Union
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Matthew Newsome Hargeisa As Somalia starts to emerge from its quagmire of instability and chaos, 20 years of relative peace and stability are starting to pay dividends for its close neighbour Somaliland, as this November it struck its first major … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Somali
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Tagged Genel Energy, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Inter Press Service, Middle East, Ophir Energy, Somalia, Somaliland, Soviet Union
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AT LEAST with the Chinese decadal leadership change, the world will have to learn to spell new names. First Xi Jinping, the new and incoming party leader and President of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Second Li Keqiang, the … read more »
Yohannan Chemarapally THE recent demise of the Ethiopian prime minister and strongman, Meles Zenawi, brings to an end an interesting chapter of contemporary history in the Horn of Africa region. His passing away was not entirely unexpected. The Ethiopian leader … read more »
Posted in Article, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Meles Zenawi, Soviet Union, Zenawi
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By Moeletsi Mbeki and Refiloe Morwe A couple of years ago when still a political analyst for Nedbank, one of South Africa’s leading banks, I was asked by a fund manager in Edinburgh how sustainable I thought South Africa was. … read more »
Posted in Article, South Africa
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Tagged African National Congress, ANC, Black Economic Empowerment, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica African news, Jacob Zuma, Moeletsi Mbeki, South Africa, Soviet Union, United States
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Alexander MEZYAEV In Libya, the US consulate in Benghazi came under attack which took the lives of the US ambassador and other mission staff. While the unrest was immediately sparked by the release of an anti-Muslim film on YouTube, an … read more »
Posted in Alexander MEZYAEV, Article, Columnist
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Tagged Arab, Benghazi, Hope, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Libya, Libyan, Soviet Union, Youtube
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During the Vietnam War, Sweden was an independent country with a moral conscience, and Sweden gave sanctuary to US war protestors who refused the draft. Washington realized the cost to itself and purchased the Swedish government in order to prevent … read more »
By Tibebe Samuel Ferenji Some Ethiopians have expressed their disappointment in the way that the people of Ethiopia mourned the death of Mr. Meles Zenawi. In the absence of free press, it is hard to tell who is mourning his … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Meles Zenawi, North Korea, Soviet Union, Zenawi
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President Obama has nominated a former union organizer with a disturbingly radical background to a vitally important federal office that could manipulate unemployment figures for the Obama administration’s benefit. The nominee in question is central banker Erica L. Groshen, an … read more »
By Yilma Bekele The Ethiopian people have been told to show grief regarding the death of Meles Zenawi. This is sadness by government decree and it is not unique to us. We just witnessed it happen in North Korea but … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged East Germany, Ethiopia, Ethiopian people, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, North Korea, Soviet Union, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, TPLF
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The recent death of Ethiopian strongman Meles Zenawi after 21 years in power raises issues of succession and the future of U.S. relations with the nation. Before Mr. Meles came to power, Ethiopian leaders who followed Emperor Haile Selassie after … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Cold War, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Somalia, South Sudan, Soviet Union, Sudan, United States
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Yuri GAVRILECHKO The globalization actually encompasses all aspects of private and social life. It also has a dramatic and miserable side of the coin: the differentiation of society, the breakup of traditional interpersonal ties (the decline of family values is … read more »
Posted in Europe, Global Issues
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Tagged Africa Countries, africa facts, africa for kids, africa karl wolf, africa lyrics, Africa news, africa news today, africa song, africa toto, african food, African History, Citizenship of the European Union, Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Union, European, European Union, Germany, Greece, IndepthAfrica, reuters africa news, Soviet Union
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Aleksandr SHUSTOV By the end of July the situation in the Mountaneous Badakhshan (Gorno-Badakhshan) autonomous region abruptly exacerbated. Gordo-Badakhshan is a highland area in the south-eastern part of Tajikistan, making up almost a half (45%) of the territory. The region … read more »
Posted in Aleksandr SHUSTOV, Europe, Global Issues
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Tagged Badakhshan, Dushanbe, Gorno-Badakhshan, Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica Magazine, Khorugh, Soviet Union, Tajik, Tajikistan
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Nil NIKANDROV On July 26 1953 in the morning a group of revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro stormed the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba. The first attack against the Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship failed, but a signal to start fighting … read more »
Posted in America, Columnist, Global Issues, Nil NIKANDROV
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Tagged Castro, Cuba, Cuban, Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, Havana, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica Magazine, Soviet Union, United States
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by Yilma Bekele Is Meles Zenawi dead or alive has become the burning question of the day. It is sad even in death or near death thePress Conferences to be held on Zenawi’s health tyrant does not get any respect. … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, Atlantic, East Africa, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, map africa, map of africa, Meles, Meles Zenawi, news, news in africa, North Africa, South Africa, Soviet Union, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, travel to africa, United States, West Africa, Woyane
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For the first time in modern history the leadership of Ethiopia’s muslim community, which makes up a majority of the country, has become politically active and is calling for the overthrow of the USA backed Meles Zenawi regime. Not even … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, afria travel, Africa news, africa news today, African news, BBC Africa, bbc africa news, East Africa, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, Islam, latest africa news, map africa, map of africa, Meles Zenawi, news, news 24, news in africa, North Africa, South Africa, south african news, Soviet Union, travel to africa, United States, West Africa
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By Alemayehu G. Mariam Over the past few months, I have been penning occasional commentaries in a series I called “Ethiopia’s transition from dictatorship and democracy”. In my last such commentary, I argued that “on the bridge to democracy, there … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Egypt, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Libya, Meles Zenawi, Middle East, Soviet Union, Tunisia, United States
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Aurobinda MAHAPATRA In international politics, relations of trade and commerce among nations are known, but spiritual cooperation? This is in fact the central call of religious leaders at Astana in Kazakhstan. While speaking at the 4th conference of Leaders of … read more »
Peter Collier, Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick (Encounter Books). To order it, click here. At a time when our foreign policy is in the hands of the feckless, delusional, and incompetent, it is bracing to have … read more »
Conceding Israeli control of the 34-mile-wide area known as Judea and Samaria to any of Israel’s actual or even potential enemies means a return to the pre-1967 nine-mile waistline across Israel’s coastal strip and a security border of 223 miles … read more »
Natalia MEDEN Today we’re partners, but not friends» – said Russian ambassador to Germany Vladimir Grinin meeting journalists from different countries in Berlin by the end of April. After many years of assurances that the both countries are strategic partners, … read more »
Posted in Europe, Global Issues
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Tagged afria travel, European Union, German, Germany, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, map africa, map of africa, Moscow, NATO, news, Russia, South Africa, Soviet Union, travel to africa, West
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By Georgy Satarov Advent of a new generation unshackled by Soviet habits has given the country a chance for reform In just six months, from the end of September 2011 to March 2012, Russia was transformed. The state’s gradual decomposition … read more »
Posted in America, Europe, Global Issues
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Tagged afria travel, Dmitry Medvedev, Georgy Satarov, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, map africa, Moscow, news, putin, Putinism, Russia, South Africa, Soviet Union, travel to africa, Vladimir Putin
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Leonid SAVIN It became clear after the Seoul nuclear summit that the USA sticks to the old policy that goes back to 1945 – to monopolize the right to use nuclear weapons by making their non-proliferation part of international law … read more »
Posted in America, Asia, Global Issues
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Tagged Afghanistan, Africa news, African news, Air Force Global Strike Command, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Russia, Soviet Union, Tactical nuclear weapon, United States, World Trade Center
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