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Ethiopia | Ambo Protests – A Personal Account of two Americans

(Jen and Josh) Disclaimer:  We are no longer Peace Corps Volunteers, and the following is a personal story, not a…

Ethiopia| Why Resist the Master Plan? A Constitutional Legal Exploration

(Tsegaye R. Ararssa) 1. Introduction When the Ethiopian government announced its readiness to implement its “Integrated Regional Development Plan” (the…

Coca Cola dumps Teddy Afro

(Tigist Geme) Just days before the start of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, controversial Ethiopian singer Tewodros Kassahun announced his…

Sixty Ethiopians, Somalians dead as boat sinks in the Red Sea

UN refugee agency on Friday said it had received confirmation that 62 people died when their boat foundered while trying…

Analysis: South Sudan conflict destabilizes Ethiopia’s regional strategy

(Harry Verhoeven) If the past century’s dominant image of Ethiopia was that of an impoverished, war-torn state, epitomized by the…

EPRDF: Economic success is due to the firm hand of Meles Zenawi

(Zerihun Getachew) The May 28 victory has brought success in development and democracy in Ethiopia, said a statement by Ethiopian…

All Kenyan mobile calls being spied on by the U.S.

Editor Note: "The Intercept" website reported, citing leaked documents, that American spy agency, NSA, secretly monitor the telecommunications systems of…

Somalia: Al-Shabab threatens to attack USA

(Associated Press) Making a rare threat against the United States, a senior member of Somalia's Islamic insurgent group that has…

U.S., E.U. diplomats shuttling between Ethiopia and Egypt to restart talks

Diplomats from the U.S. and E.U. are shuttling between Ethiopia and Egypt in hopes of persuading the two countries to…

Ethiopia: Crackdown of protests taints higher education success

(Paul O'Keeffe) Over the past 15 years, Ethiopia has become home to one of the world's fastest-growing higher education systems.…

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