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Profile of Al-Shabaab linked Eritrean officials [US Treasury Dept.]

United States announced sanctions on 6 Al-Shabaab supporters on July 5. The list includes two senior Eritrean officials. Here is…

Sunday, July 8, 2012 @ 11:57 pm

The Canadian company, Allana Potash announces the discovery of potash deposit in north-eastern Ethiopia. Here are two news reports and…

Friday, July 6, 2012 @ 3:31 am

July 3, 2012: Ethiopia has emerged as East Africa’s political powerhouse, despite being landlocked. Eritrea controls what used to be…

Friday, July 6, 2012 @ 3:01 am

The rights-based framework may only have been formally adopted by the international humanitarian and development community in the past decade;…

Friday, July 6, 2012 @ 3:00 am

Mohamad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has been declared the official winner of the first…

Friday, July 6, 2012 @ 2:59 am

The World Trade Organization has agreed new membership standards for the weakest economies, lowering the bar for countries such as…

Friday, July 6, 2012 @ 2:58 am

In a post from March 2012 here, i discussed the issue of modern day slavery of Ethiopian women in the…

Friday, July 6, 2012 @ 2:56 am

A black pickup truck slowly circled RFK Stadium. Its sole cargo was a billboard bearing the images of a starving…

Thursday, July 5, 2012 @ 11:59 pm

The Committee to Protect Journalists says it appears Ethiopia is extending and refining its censorship of Internet news with a…

Wednesday, July 4, 2012 @ 11:59 pm

Twelve cadets with special military engineering skills will join the Somaliland national armed forces this week after graduating from a…

Wednesday, July 4, 2012 @ 11:59 pm