Addis Ababa (AFP) – The number of hungry Ethiopians needing food aid has risen sharply due to poor rains and the El Nino weather phenomenon with around 7.5 million people now in need, aid officials said Friday. That number has nearly doubled since August, when the United Nations said 4.5 million were in need —
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They don’t differ materially from American views of the continent. BY WARNER BROWN , FP Map: China’s Stereotypes of Africa, from ‘Chaotic’ Somalia to ‘Awesome’ Gambia China’s ambitions in Africa are well-documented. Its annual trade with the resource-rich continent recently surpassed $200 billion, and Chinese agencies and firms have invested heavily in building badly needed
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By Paul Burkhardt, Bloomberg The 550-kilometer line will import fuel from Djibouti coast Venture estimated at $1.55 billion; construction by 2018 Ethiopia and Djibouti signed an agreement for a $1.55 billion fuel pipeline with developers Mining, Oil & Gas Services and Blackstone Group LP-backed Black Rhino Group. The two countries in the Horn of Africa
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By Paul Burkhardt, Bloomberg The 550-kilometer line will import fuel from Djibouti coast Venture estimated at $1.55 billion; construction by 2018 Ethiopia and Djibouti signed an agreement for a $1.55 billion fuel pipeline with developers Mining, Oil & Gas Services and Blackstone Group LP-backed Black Rhino Group. The two countries in the Horn of Africa
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By Karim Lebhour Addis Ababa (AFP) – The large open plan office with staff behind sleek computers looks like any newly-started modern business. But Ethiopia’s first online restaurant delivery service, Deliver Addis, must contend with major hurdles that would stall many entrepreneurs in more developed nations. Setting up any business is a challenge, but in
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By Karim Lebhour Addis Ababa (AFP) – The large open plan office with staff behind sleek computers looks like any newly-started modern business. But Ethiopia’s first online restaurant delivery service, Deliver Addis, must contend with major hurdles that would stall many entrepreneurs in more developed nations. Setting up any business is a challenge, but in
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Athletes who suffered political persecution face an anxious wait to find out if their asylum claims are successful and they can resume their careers By Rick Maese The Guardian Genet Lire locked herself in a bathroom stall at Dulles International Airport and hid. The clock was ticking. If she was found, she would have to
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Athletes who suffered political persecution face an anxious wait to find out if their asylum claims are successful and they can resume their careers By Rick Maese The Guardian Genet Lire locked herself in a bathroom stall at Dulles International Airport and hid. The clock was ticking. If she was found, she would have to
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By JOHN H. LIENHARD V and KENNETH M. STRZEPEK CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — On the Blue Nile in Ethiopia, construction is underway on a public works project of gigantic physical proportions and exquisite political delicacy. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, now about halfway finished, amounts to a test: With water becoming precious enough to be the
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By EDITH M. LEDERER and JOHN DANISZEWSKI UNITED NATIONS (AP) – Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said in an interview that the Mideast region needs to cooperate to defeat a worsening terrorist threat that has led to a “ferocious war” in Egypt and created the danger of some countries “sliding into failure.” In a wide-ranging interview
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