Africa – General

The Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa

Highlights: * This was the first of what is intended to be an annual meeting “aimed at promoting dialogue as…

UK Experts: Ethiopia among world’s fastest growing economies

(April 12, 2012 - ENA) - Six of the world’s fastest growing economies are in sub-Saharan Africa among them Uganda…

African urbanization “slowing down”, Researcher claims

Africa's cities are growing at frightening rate, as people flood from the countryside to the towns... It is a commonly…

Analysis: International Efforts to Counter Al-Shabaab – By David Shinn

(By David H. Shinn) Since the al-Shabaab (The Youth) took control of most of south and central Somalia in 2007,…

Africa’s Stolen History

By: Juliet Torome The news that Yale University has agreed to return thousands of artifacts that one of its researchers…

Wikileaks: Eritrea’s major port city ‘becoming a ghost town’

Destabilizing the region is not the only factor that earned Eritrea the title Africa’s North Korea, but also information blackout.…

Meles Zenawi’s letter to Obama on G8, G20 summits: Wikileaks

A leaked Cable of US Embassy Addis Ababa shows a July 2009 letter of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to…

Maps of Famine and Emergency forecasts | East Africa

The following four maps show Estimated Food Emergency situations in Africa, in general, and Ethiopia, in particular, from Aug-Sept and…

Global Mobile phone access: Ethiopia at the bottom

Ethiopian telephone telephone tariff is the cheapest in East Africa, Ethio-Telecom CEO Jean-Michel Latute noted in the press conference last…

Saudi wants 30,000 Ethiopian maids, drivers, laborers

Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn said that Saudi Arabia has requested around 30,000 laborers including housemaids, drivers and technical staff…

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