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Kenya: Mobile wars and Political barriers to entry: Safaricom vs. Equity Bank

(Mwangi S. Kimenyi) A few years ago, Kenyan commercial banks were fighting hard to prevent mobile phone companies from engaging…

Monday, November 3, 2014 @ 8:26 pm

Recent news on the size of Ethiopia’s external debt has shocked many and stoked a debate on debt among Ethiopian…

Monday, November 3, 2014 @ 1:30 am

This article, by Daniel Berhnane, was first published on the Canadian "Centre for Research on Globalization" on Oct. 31, 2014.…

Friday, October 31, 2014 @ 10:57 pm

* The Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs needs to address the mismatch between its policy focus on the IGAD region,…

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 @ 1:01 am

(Alicia Ely Yamin) CAMBRIDGE, Massachussetts, Oct 27 2014 (IPS) - The catastrophic Ebola crisis unfolding in West Africa offers many…

Tuesday, October 28, 2014 @ 9:59 pm

Editor's note: It has been 30 years since the notorious Famine hit Ethiopia, which some characterized as "the worst famine…

Monday, October 27, 2014 @ 11:30 pm

(Dr. Salman Mohamed Ahmed Salman) The Sudanese Minister of Water Resources and Electricity, Mutaz Mussa, said in a statement carried…

Sunday, October 26, 2014 @ 11:08 pm

(Leonard Vincent) On Saturday morning, two exiled Eritrean journalists in exile and two European journalists - British Martin Plaut and…

Sunday, October 26, 2014 @ 8:59 pm

Ethiopia's Public Sector Debt grew threefold in the past five years. The total outstanding external debt surged from 5.6 Billion…

Sunday, October 26, 2014 @ 2:57 am

(Nick Dearden) 30 years after images of Ethiopian famine haunted British TV screens, they still shape how we see Africa…

Saturday, October 25, 2014 @ 3:35 pm