Horn of Africa

Wikileaks: Ethiopia eyes access to sea, territory swaps with Eritrea [full text]

A leaked Cable of US Embassy Addis Ababa reveals Ethiopia threatened to ‘reoccupy the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ), which lies…

US Ambassador comedy: ‘Lucy Claims Asylum’ – Wikileaks [full text]

A leaked Cable of April 2009, cleared by the then US Ambassador to Ethiopia, Donald Yamamoto, mocks at length on…

Wikileaks: Analysis of ‘Land Grab’ in Ethiopia

A leaked Cable of US Embassy Addis Ababa presents a fairly informative analyzes the issues of foreign Agricultural investment in…

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 Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to…

Wikileaks: US didn’t sponsor Ethiopia’s Somalia intervention [full text]

Leaked Cables of US Embassy Addis Ababa unambiguously confirmed that Ethiopia’s 2006 intervention in Somalia was not US sponsored as…

Somalia: After Shabaab withdrawal from Mogadishu

There has been a couple of notable developments in Mogadishu following the recent withdrawal of Al-Shabaab from the city. The…

Q & A: UN Committee on Ethiopia’s Gender affairs performance

An Ethiopian delegation led by Zenebu Tadesse, Minister for Women, Youth and Children Affairs, presented report and answered questions at…

Ethiopia: British media fuels aid apathy | Horn of Africa drought

At a time when about 12 million people in the horn of Africa suffer from the worst drought in 60…

11plus blunders in BBC, TBIJ report of Ethiopia’s aid misuse

Two British news outlets made headlines last week when they published a story on Ethiopia claiming it is a product…

UK thinker: Riot shows ‘Democracy Neoliberalism Style doesn’t work’

DJJFR27B7HES Highlights: Hatred of the police was a unifying factor running through the riots, the lightning rod for all these…

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