MasterCard sets up shop in Somalia, starts issuing Credit Cards
(Matina Stevis) MasterCard Worldwide this week started issuing credit cards in Somalia in a bid to tap the $1.6 billion…
Friday, June 5, 2015 @ 9:42 pm
Curated Content
Ethiopia achieved only 3.9% of its energy target
(Muluken Yewondwossen) The Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy (MoWIE) only achieved about four percent of its targeted plan which…
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 @ 2:27 am
Ethiopian election | Beyene Petros sour about the electoral process
(Neamin Ashenafi) Professor Beyene Petros is the president of the Ethiopian Federal Democratic Unity Forum (Medrek), one of the main…
Monday, June 1, 2015 @ 12:24 pm
As Ethiopia votes, what’s ‘free and fair’ got to do with it?| Terrence Lyons
(Terrence Lyons) Ethiopia, Washington’s security partner and Africa’s second most populous country, is scheduled to hold national elections on May…
Monday, May 18, 2015 @ 11:31 pm
The ISIS Factor: What Islamic Jihad Means for Ethiopia and the Rest of Africa
(Ghelawdewos Araia, PhD) September 20, 2014 ISIS is the latest mystique obscurity of the Islamic Jihad variety, but Jihad is…
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 @ 5:22 pm
Islamic State’s video shows beheadings of Ethiopian Christians in Libya
(Laura King) In a gruesome replay of earlier beheadings of captive Christians, a new Islamic State video distributed on social…
Sunday, April 19, 2015 @ 6:34 pm
"If offered a chance to go back to Ethiopia today, I will do so": Victim of South African xenophobic attack
(Ntombi Mbomvu) An Ethiopian shop owner who immigrated to South Africa in 2009 is one of the victims who had…
Friday, April 17, 2015 @ 7:22 pm
Africa’s Next Hegemon: Behind Ethiopia’s Power Plays
(Harry Verhoeven - University of Oxford) In 1991, as the Cold War drew to an end, the only African country…
Monday, April 13, 2015 @ 9:32 pm
Ethiopia, risen from the ashes
(Gary Quinn) I’m crazy about Ethiopia. It’s exciting and elegant and stuffed full of history and drama. It offers vast…
Monday, April 13, 2015 @ 9:31 pm
After Garissa, al-Shabaab is a threat to the whole of East Africa
(Richard Dowden) The first time I saw Uhuru Kenyatta speak was in Addis Ababa at the 2012 World Economic Forum.…
Monday, April 13, 2015 @ 9:30 pm
This website uses cookies.