Quick comment on the detention of bloggers, journalists

Ethiopia detained six bloggers and a journalist on Friday, as reported earlier. The subsequent day.

Aljazeera| “Egypt plans to escalate the situation against Ethiopia"

While construction of Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam continues apace, downstream neighbour Egypt is crying foul..

Gap, Gap, Gap! A Continent haunted by her past

(Astewaye Beyene) Where to start? Why not in the fifteenth century! Now we are in.

Capitol Hill
The US is an oligarchy, not a democracy: Peer-reviewed study concludes

(Zachary Davies Boren) Report by researchers from Princeton and Northwestern universities suggests that US political.

MEDREK or the End of a Political Masquerade?

(By Prof. Mesay Kebede) “Unless ethnic parties officially and without ambiguity drop the right to.

Ethiopia returns to her senses on the Gay issue

The last two months have seen an escalation of anti-gay rhetoric in the Ethiopian media..

Nile| The Report is quite positive, Egypt wanted it kept secret: Says Analyst

An independent water scholar said that Egypt fought for the International Panel of Experts’ report.

Sudan and “the Iranian, Muslim Brotherhood or Qatari axes”

(Asmaa al-Husseini) Khartoum recently hosted Wagdy Ghoneim, a leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood,.

Ethiopia dismisses International Rivers as Egypt’s proxy [full text included]

Ethiopia rejected anti-dam group’s call for the cessation of the construction of the Grand Ethiopian.

On Ethiopia’s place in Pan-Africanism and African Union (Dr. Mehari)

Pan-Africanism is consciousness. It is high level of awareness about responsibilities, duties and historical position.