By ISMA’IL KUSHKUSH, NY Times ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The bulldozers, tractors and cranes are busy day and night, paving new roads, building tall glass buildings and constructing a new light rail system to stitch together the city’s ends. In less than five years, the city’s skyline has changed drastically. Above the dust, in a
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This post was originally published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The World Bank has denied responsibility for the violent evictions of an indigenous group by a major client, the Ethiopian government, and declined to press for compensation for families that have been forced from their homes. Inclusive Development International, a U.S.-based human
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British support for Ethiopia scheme withdrawn amid abuse allegations Department for International Development will no longer back $4.9bn project that critics claim has funded a brutal resettlement programme The Guardian By Sam Jones and Mark Anderson The UK has ended its financial support for a controversial development project alleged to have helped the Ethiopian government
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The New York Times The Arthur Rimbaud Cultural Center, a merchant’s home now dedicated to the poet and his time in Harar. Credit Michael Tsegaye for The New York Times By RACHEL B. DOYLE In December of 1880, the mercurial French poet Arthur Rimbaud entered the ancient walled city of Harar, Ethiopia, a journey that had
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danielle@vox.com Enough money to retire *and* buy snazzy flannel shirts. Mr. Money Mustache When do you hope to retire? 65? 60 if you really get frugal? Mr. Money Mustache left the working world at 30, and he wants you to, as well. The popular personal finance blogger (who only reveals that his first name is
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danielle@vox.com Enough money to retire *and* buy snazzy flannel shirts. Mr. Money Mustache When do you hope to retire? 65? 60 if you really get frugal? Mr. Money Mustache left the working world at 30, and he wants you to, as well. The popular personal finance blogger (who only reveals that his first name is
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Aljazeera Documents show S African and Ethiopian agencies in crisis, suspected Sudan, amid reported 2012 plot to kill AU chief. Secret intelligence documents leaked to Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit reveal that spies in Addis Ababa were alerted to a plot by “an unnamed state” to kill a top African Union diplomat. Ethiopian agents later accused
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(Washington, DC) – The World Bank should fully address serious human rights issues raised by the bank’s internal investigation into a project in Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the bank’s vice president for Africa. The bank’s response to the investigation findings attempts to distance the bank from the many problems confirmed
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Response to Inquiry Dismissive of Abuses appeared first on 6KILO.com.
By Megan Perry, Sustainable Food Trust s://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1y5fssKiTw A land grab twice the size of France is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the wholesale seizure of indigenous lands to turn them over to dams and plantations for sugar, palm oil, cotton and biofuels run by foreign corporations, destroying ancient cultures and turning Lake
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Swiss Leaks, ICIJ By: Gerard Ryle, Will Fitzgibbon, Mar Cabra, Rigoberto Carvajal, Marina Walker Guevara, Martha M Hamilton and Tom Stites Secret documents reveal that global banking giant HSBC profited from doing business with arms dealers who channelled mortar bombs to child soldiers in Africa, bag-men for Third World dictators, traffickers in blood diamonds and
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