Country | Horn Affairs

A brief guide to Egypt’s first post-revolution elections

Millions of Egyptians will head to the polls on 28 November in the first parliamentary vote after a popular uprising…

Thursday, November 10, 2011 @ 4:26 am

Remarks made by Amb. David Shinn, in a hearing held by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African…

Thursday, November 10, 2011 @ 4:23 am

Highlights: * It is [Puntland’s] consistent position that the remaining federal states in south-central Somalia are formed, in accordance with…

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 @ 7:41 am

[From: A Week in the Horn of Africa, Nov. 4, 2011 issue.] Somaliland’s President Ahmed Mohamed ‘Silanyo’ was in Addis…

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 @ 3:04 am

Eritrea’s request to address the UN Security Council faces US opposition, Inner-city press reported from New York yesterday. Last week,…

Friday, November 4, 2011 @ 3:22 pm

A Leaked US Embassy Cable reveals that Pres. George Bush’s favorite General cautioned PM Meles Zenawi against ‘a rush into…

Friday, November 4, 2011 @ 12:35 pm

Leaked Cables of US Embassy Addis Ababa refutes the recurrent claim regarding the December 24, 2006 Ethiopian military intervention in…

Friday, November 4, 2011 @ 12:25 pm

Despite the repeated media claims that Ethiopia went to Somalia ‘to do America's dirty job’, four leaked Cables of Nov.…

Friday, November 4, 2011 @ 12:21 pm

The Ethiopian Prime Minister was wary of a possible US condemnation about two month before launching a military offensive in…

Friday, November 4, 2011 @ 12:17 pm

It is fashionable for detractors of Ethiopia to claim that ‘Zenawi invaded Somalia at the behest of George Bush’, as…

Friday, November 4, 2011 @ 11:25 am