AP-The ISIS terror group kidnapped 88 Eritrean Christians from a people-smugglers’ caravan in Libya last week, a U.S. defense official confirmed Monday. The defense official confirmed initial reports of the mass kidnapping to Fox News after seeing a recent intelligence report. The independent Libya Herald newspaper reported that the convoy was ambushed by militants south
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By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Ethiopia plans to launch hydropower dams and other renewable energy projects over the five years to 2020 that will add an additional 12,000 megawatts of electricity upon completion, a senior official said on Monday. With one of the continent’s fastest-growing economies, Ethiopia wants to become a manufacturing hub
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BBC- Migrants from Sub-Saharian areas receive bottles of water on a rescue boat of Italy”s Navy ship San Giorgio after being rescued in open international waters in the Mediterranean Sea between the Italian and the Libyan coasts May 14, 2014. An estimated 5,000 Eritreans flee every month, often attempting to cross the Mediterranean Eritrea’s government
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By Alemayehu G Mariam What do you get when you cross a thugocracy with democracy? A thugmocracy. When thugs are “elected” to political office, they become thugmocrats. Naturally, “elected” thugmocrats run thugmocracies. If democracy is a government of the people, by the people for the people, a thugmocracy is a government of thugs, by thugs,
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Russia and Qatar could lose the 2018 and 2022 World Cups respectively if evidence emerges of bribery, leading Fifa official Domenico Scala has said. The countries deny wrongdoing in their bidding processes and Scala admits he has not seen evidence of corruption. Scala is the head of Fifa’s audit and compliance committee. He said: “Should
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Mozambique has seen a 220% growth in cigarette use! Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia among world’s lowest smokers, but in Mauritania adults consume about 41 cigarettes per day – the highest in the world. IN the last two decades considerable steps have been made globally to decrease the number of tobacco smokers. However, despite these efforts, tobacco
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(NAIROBI) – An Ethiopian rebel group, the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) welcomed the release of two delegates allegedly abducted in Nairobi by the Ethiopian government. ONLF fighters (Reuters) Sulub Ahmed and Ali Hussein were senior negotiators for the ONLF in the peace talks being brokered by the Kenyan government. In a statement extended to
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British archaeology team uncovers stunning Aksumite and Roman artefacts Grave in Ethiopia The grave in Ethiopia where the woman dubbed ‘Sleeping Beauty’ was discovered. Photograph: Graeme Laidlaw Spectacular 2,000-year-old treasures from the Roman empire and the Aksumite kingdom, which ruled parts of north-east Africa for several centuries before 940AD, have been discovered by British archaeologists
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The African Union and the Republic of Djibouti have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that provides for the deployment of a second Djiboutian battalion of 900 troops within the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).The MoU was signed late on Thursday at AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa, by the AU Commissioner for Peace and
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[Caption: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh looks on as External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and Ethiopian Finance Minister Sufian Ahmed greet each other after signing an MoU at National Palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to lease fertile farm land to India.] By Mohammad Amir Anwar (CNN)The global food price crises between 2008 and 2009 led
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