By Yilma Bekele I could have titled this piece ‘Obama and his Africa peace keepers’ but that would not be fair. Anybody with half a brain can see that I am trying to make my issue to be his problem. Excuse me just because fighting for my right is beneath my dignity there is no
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By Zone9 ‹‹ይድረስ ላንቺ›› ተፃፈ ከስድስተኛ ተከሳሽ በዘላለም ክብረት ወዳጄ ልቤ ከቶ እንደምንድን ነሽ? እውን እኔና አንቺ በአለም ስንኖር ሌላ የመገናኛ ዘዴ አጥተን ወደ snail mail እንመላለሳለን ብለሽ አስበሽ ታውቂያለሽ? ለማንኛውም እንዲህ ሆነ፡፡ ጥጋበኛ ሰው ያስቀናኝ ጀምሮልሻል፣ ጥጋበኛ እንዲህ የሚለው ትዝ አለኝ፡፡ ‹‹ ….ደብዳቤ ቢጽፉት እንደ ቃል አይሆንም፣ እንገናኝ እና ልንገርሽ ሁሉንም….›› የደላው! ቢያሻው
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By Destaw Andargie (PhD) One can only speculate why the secretive government of Ethiopia is giving away the country’s fertile land to foreign agribusinesses. But we know the official explanation; that is, such ‘long-sought’ agricultural investments enhance the country’s food security. For a country that is intuitively associated with hunger and starvation, there should indeed
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EFF BY NATE CARDOZO Earlier this week, EFF told the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that Ethiopia must be held accountable for its illegal wiretapping of an American citizen. Foreign governments simply do not have a get-out-of-court-free card when they commit serious felonies in America against Americans. This case is the centerpiece of our U.S.
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Tesfa News Joint forces to operate under single command along common border The irony of the present defense arrangement is that the Ethiopian government is presenting Sudan as protector of its interests, among others, on the Nile River. But why Sudan go against Egypt – its coreligionist, a fellow member of the Islamic Conference Organization
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Tesfa News Joint forces to operate under single command along common border The irony of the present defense arrangement is that the Ethiopian government is presenting Sudan as protector of its interests, among others, on the Nile River. But why Sudan go against Egypt – its coreligionist, a fellow member of the Islamic Conference Organization
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The Economist Bloggers and journalists who criticise the government are under the cosh ADDIS ABABA- A RANKING that countries do not aspire to ascend is the one compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based group. It reckons that Ethiopia is Africa’s second-worst jailer of journalists, ahead only of its ultra-repressive neighbour and
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Devex By Lorenzo Piccio Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and U.S. President Barack Obama converse at the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland. While Addis Ababa remains one of the largest U.S. aid recipients in sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. aid flows to Ethiopia have fallen sharply over the course of the Obama administration. Photo by: Pete Souza Five years
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CNN By Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Danielle Dellorto, (CNN) - It’s a story that could have come from a cinematic medical thriller: Two American missionary workers contract Ebola. Their situation is dire. Three vials containing a highly experimental drug are flown into Liberia in a last-ditch effort to save them. And the drug flown in last
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THE Huffington Post BLOG By Ali A. Rizvi Are you “pro-Israel” or “pro-Palestine”? It isn’t even noon yet as I write this, and I’ve already been accused of being both. These terms intrigue me because they directly speak to the doggedly tribal nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. You don’t hear of too many other countries
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