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Why Somaliland is not a recognised state

(The Economist) Somaliland, a slim slice of Somali-inhabited territory on the southern shore of the Gulf of Aden, ticks almost…

Sunday, November 8, 2015 @ 4:40 am

(Hala Ali - Al Monitor) The Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowments is being plundered. The ministry has been fighting this…

Saturday, November 7, 2015 @ 6:19 am

(Christina Goldbaumnov - Ozy.com) On April 2, as I waited in a doctor’s office near Nairobi, the anchor of Kenya’s…

Thursday, November 5, 2015 @ 6:39 am

(Catrina Stewart in Eyl - The Guardian) Five years ago, the isolated outpost of Eyl was Somalia’s most notorious pirate…

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 @ 6:16 am

(The Economist) Jumping a fence of prickly pears, Gumat Hussain, a local chief in the driest district of North Wollo,…

Monday, November 2, 2015 @ 11:24 pm

The African Union Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan released its 315-pages final report on Tuesday. The Commission of Inquiry,…

Thursday, October 29, 2015 @ 7:45 pm

(Milkessa Midega) (PhD Candidate - Center for Federal Studies, Addis Ababa University) In this very brief reflection, I present the…

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 @ 5:44 pm

Building democracy and cultivating a culture of good governance remains to be a challenge that demands a concerted effort of all…

Thursday, October 8, 2015 @ 10:44 pm

(Muluken Yohannes) Since Ethiopia’s current government, EPRDF, (a.k.a. weyane) came to power in 1991; there are a lot of infrastructure…

Friday, September 25, 2015 @ 2:29 am

(Originally published on October 2008) Ethiopia is party to the Nairobi Protocol for Prevention, Control in Reduction of Small Arms…

Sunday, September 20, 2015 @ 1:21 am