Category: Africa – General
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.
Africa’s Stolen History
By: Juliet Torome The news that Yale University has agreed to return thousands of artifacts.
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.
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.
Maps of Famine and Emergency forecasts | East Africa
The following four maps show Estimated Food Emergency situations in Africa, in general, and Ethiopia,.
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.
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.
China’s ‘Permanent Signature in Africa’
The following article was originally posted on AsiaTimesOnline yesterday, titled ‘China’s scramble for the African.
The Middle Class in African countries : AfDB report
The size of Africa’s middle class tripled over the last 30 years to 313 million.
Spare China the bashing
On Aid-thoughts blog, Ranil Dissanayake presents a compelling argument in favor of, what he calls,.