Africa – General

Official: Kenya protested ‘Ethiopian Incursion’, demanded withdrawal

Kenya’s Turkana North District Commissioner claimed today that ‘Kenya has made demands to the Ethiopian administration in a bid to…

Bill Gates writes praising Ethiopia’s leadership and progress

Microsoft founder, philanthropist Bill Gates showered praises on the Ethiopian government saying: ‘one factor in Ethiopia’s progress is Prime Minister…

Al-Shabaab split threatens to open new conflict between Somalia’s Islamists

Despite recent celebrations of its merger with al-Qaeda, Somalia’s Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen movement has been suffering from a power struggle…

Ethiopia: Oil- explorer expects billions of barrels in Ogaden basin

SouthWest Energy, an Ethiopian oil- exploration company, said it’s optimistic about the results of a seismic survey in the Ogaden…

HIV/AIDS: New book tracks the epidemic to its origins

Highlight: * The epidemic was born between 1881 and 1924. A few decades later, the virus had migrated far from…

China cleaning up Neoliberalism’s mess in Africa: PM Meles Zenawi

The Ethiopia Prime Minister lauded Chinese role in Africa. Not only he defended the merit of Chinese investments but also…

Ethiopia to host frm. Yemen president Saleh for 2 years | Yemen media

Yemeni news outlets are reporting that Ethiopia agreed to host their former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. The request was made…

Update on the two Arabs expelled by Ethiopia

It is to be recalled that the Ethiopian government expelled two Arabs alleging they tried to incite violence, as reported…

Study: “Compulsory free labor” popular in Tigray, Ethiopia

[Quote from the study report] “There is no resistance in communal work,” one focal group discussant asserted. “We can say…

Analysis: Dahir Aweys and the Politics of the Al-Shabaab Split

An analysis published on AfricanArguements on April 4, 2012, authored by Abdi Aynte, a journalist for Al Jazeera English, elucidates…

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