Africa – General

The Burkina Faso Coup: Is it the populace or the military?

Dr. Costantinos Beruh Tesfa Berhe[Presented to a select group of participants at a closed session at the AU and UNECA…

List: How indebted are African economies?

Which African countries are highly indebted? How do Horn of African economies fare in this regard? Where does Ethiopia rank…

Is ISIS allied to or influencing African Jihadi Groups?

(Hassan M. Abukar) In August 2014, Africa’s spy chiefs met in Nairobi as part of the African Union’s Committee of…

UNECA report: Neo-liberal diktat cost Africa decades

United Nations' Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has published it’s 2014 MDG Report 2014: “Assessing Progress in Africa toward the…

The Ebola Pandora’s Box

Some of us [Africans] had long read the evils, from the Atlantic Slave Trade to the colonial disaster, on our…

Doing Business: Easier in Ethiopia than Kenya, except for start-ups

Highlights:- Ethiopia’s is 132nd of the 189 economies, 4 points above the 136th Kenya, in the overall global ranking of…

5 Facts No One Tells You About Africa

The power of media is so great that it can tell you a different reality about yourself and make you…

The Fifth Ethio-Egypt Joint Ministerial Commission Meeting Communiqué

1. The Fifth Ethio-Egyptian Joint Ministerial Commission meeting was held from 1-3 November, 2014 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Ministerial…

Paper|Ethiopia’s Regional Diplomacies: A Dominant Interpretation of the Horn of Africa

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

Ebola, Human Rights and Poverty – Making the Links

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

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