Country | Horn Affairs

Briefing | Doing Business 2012 in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Djibouti

The World Bank released its Doing Business 2012 report that ranks some 183 economies against 10 benchmarks deemed suggestive of…

Thursday, May 31, 2012 @ 7:49 pm

The US-funded FEWS Net (Famine Early Warning Systems Network) released Food Security updates for Kenya and Somalia. Here are the…

Thursday, May 31, 2012 @ 7:39 pm

Most of those displaced by post-election violence mainly in Kenya’s Rift Valley Province five years ago have been resettled, but…

Thursday, May 31, 2012 @ 7:36 pm

Ethiopian National Defense Forces(ENDF) crushed an Eritrean army attack last weekend, a military source said. The incident took place after…

Thursday, May 31, 2012 @ 6:19 pm

China has fast become Africa's largest trading partner - but who exactly is reaping the benefits? While Europe is struggling…

Thursday, May 31, 2012 @ 4:56 pm

An article published last week on opendemocracy.net calls Ethiopians ‘to get rid of ethnic-based politics and engage in the counter…

Tuesday, May 29, 2012 @ 4:11 am

Phil Clark, an academician specializing on African issues, published an interesting piece on ‘Why has the Arab Spring so far…

Tuesday, May 29, 2012 @ 4:10 am

The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor of US State Department issued its annual report concerning ‘Human Rights and…

Tuesday, May 29, 2012 @ 4:09 am

A certain man named Richard Dowden, Director of the Royal African Society, apparently met Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi this…

Tuesday, May 29, 2012 @ 4:07 am

Quotes from the text: * According to recent estimates, in addition to creating employment for women in the economic sectors,…

Monday, May 28, 2012 @ 11:47 pm