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,…
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 @ 5:21 am
Africa – General
Africa’s Stolen History
By: Juliet Torome The news that Yale University has agreed to return thousands of artifacts that one of its researchers…
Monday, February 20, 2012 @ 2:11 am
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.…
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 @ 5:46 am
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…
Sunday, August 28, 2011 @ 4:36 am
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…
Friday, July 22, 2011 @ 6:43 am
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…
Thursday, June 16, 2011 @ 9:45 pm
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…
Monday, June 13, 2011 @ 5:24 am
China’s ‘Permanent Signature in Africa’
The following article was originally posted on AsiaTimesOnline yesterday, titled 'China's scramble for the African Union'. It is posted here…
Thursday, June 9, 2011 @ 7:54 am
The Middle Class in African countries : AfDB report
The size of Africa's middle class tripled over the last 30 years to 313 million people, or more than 34%…
Friday, June 3, 2011 @ 4:08 am
Spare China the bashing
On Aid-thoughts blog, Ranil Dissanayake presents a compelling argument in favor of, what he calls, 'the second-generation donors'. That is:…
Saturday, January 15, 2011 @ 5:11 am
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