Government’s critics weigh options after ruling party landslide leads to loss of faith in ballot box while case of Zone 9 bloggers discourages free speech On the very day Ethiopia’s ruling party celebrated another crushing electoral victory, a young blogger on trial under anti-terrorism laws in an Addis Ababa courtroom lashed out at the authorities.
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On the fringes of the African economic summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Cairo, Addis Ababa and Khartoum move to cement economic and political coordination between the three Nile nations. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir, and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn agreed Wednesday to form a supreme council for mutual economic and political issues.
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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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[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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o Asmamaw, Befeqadu (middle) and Edom participating in a race organized in Addis Ababa. Photo courtesy of family. In April 2014, nine bloggers and journalists were arrested in Ethiopia. Several of these men and women had worked with Zone9, a collective blog that covered social and political issues in Ethiopia and promoted human rights and
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Business Standard, By Akshat Kawshal Baljinder Singh, a farmer dressed in a crisp white shirt and trousers, clutches the latest iPhone in his hand, drives a new Maruti Suzuki Swift and agrees to meet me not under the shade of a tree in his farm, but in the air-conditioned lobby of an Amritsar hotel. The
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Business Standard, By Akshat Kawshal Baljinder Singh, a farmer dressed in a crisp white shirt and trousers, clutches the latest iPhone in his hand, drives a new Maruti Suzuki Swift and agrees to meet me not under the shade of a tree in his farm, but in the air-conditioned lobby of an Amritsar hotel. The
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By Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, Oxfam International Africa was cheated out of US$11 billion in 2010 through just one of the tricks used by multinational companies to reduce tax bills, according to new Oxfam report, ‘Africa: Rising for the few,’ released today. This is equivalent to six times the amount needed to plug the healthcare
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FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: Demonstrater outside parliament. ‘Any Kenyan passing by does not automatically assume that this person is mad. For them, he is one citizen who is practising his right of dissent, picket and protest. Had it been in Ethiopia, this man could be writing his own death warrant.’ Sometime back in December last year,
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India has become the biggest land investor in Ethiopia. There are concerns at the behaviour of Indian firms in the Gambela ecological hotspot. The global food price crises between 2008 and 2009 led countries that bore the brunt of the catastrophe to look elsewhere for agricultural land to mitigate the effects. In 2008 prices of
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