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Ethiopia-Eritrea: Rising Tensions Amid New Opportunities for Engagement

* The latest report from the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea has stirred tensions between Eritrea, Ethiopia…

Tuesday, July 24, 2012 @ 5:13 am

The world wide web was hit by another wave of rumor, on Wednesday. While officials said, as usual to foreign…

Thursday, July 19, 2012 @ 6:07 am

By now, talks about the Ethiopian Prime Minister’s health could not be dismissed as mere rumors. Of course, the rumor…

Sunday, July 15, 2012 @ 12:00 am

The English weekly, Addis Fortune, shaded some light on the health of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, in its gossip column…

Tuesday, July 10, 2012 @ 4:13 am

South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, celebrates its first anniversary of independence on Monday, July 9th. It has been a…

Sunday, July 8, 2012 @ 11:59 pm

United States announced sanctions on 6 Al-Shabaab supporters on July 5. The list includes two senior Eritrean officials. Here is…

Sunday, July 8, 2012 @ 11:57 pm

July 3, 2012: Ethiopia has emerged as East Africa’s political powerhouse, despite being landlocked. Eritrea controls what used to be…

Friday, July 6, 2012 @ 3:01 am

The rights-based framework may only have been formally adopted by the international humanitarian and development community in the past decade;…

Friday, July 6, 2012 @ 3:00 am

Mohamad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has been declared the official winner of the first…

Friday, July 6, 2012 @ 2:59 am

The World Trade Organization has agreed new membership standards for the weakest economies, lowering the bar for countries such as…

Friday, July 6, 2012 @ 2:58 am