Society

Ethiopian troops surrounded S. Sudanese child abductors: Official

Ethiopian troops identified and surrounded the areas where South Sudanese gunmen are keeping the abducted children, officials say. The children…

Researcher: Hate, dangerous speech low among Ethiopian facebook users

Ethiopians' discussion on facebook is much more nuanced than perceived to be, according to a team of researchers monitoring the…

Ethiopia: Women’s group denounces compensation for a rape victim

The compensation awarded for a rape victim is decried as "outrageous" by the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association (EWLA). The association is criticizing the…

African Commission orders Ethiopia to compensate rape victim

The African Commission found that Ethiopia did not protect her from violence and also failed to provide a "decent system…

Critiques on the dominant order

The Need for Deconstructing Development assumptions and approaches Ideas of development and modernization are strongly linked to the dominant discourse…

AfDB approves loan for Adama, Adwa, Bichena and Gode water projects

(AfDB) The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 approved a loan…

Transforming health care in Ethiopia (Zoë Mullan)

(Zoë Mullan - The Lancet Global Health) To judge from recent news stories, 2015 has not been a good year…

Oldest bio of an African woman, Ethiopia’s Walatta Petros

(Alison Flood - The Guardian) Ethiopian noblewoman Walatta Petros left her husband to stop the spread of Roman Catholicism, possibly…

Egypt’s fake mosques controversy

(Hala Ali - Al Monitor) The Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowments is being plundered. The ministry has been fighting this…

AU Report on S. Sudan: On rights violations, abuses during the conflict

The African Union Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan released its 315-pages final report on Tuesday. The Commission of Inquiry,…

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