By Amy Walters NPR When you sign up for a reporting fellowship to learn about the health of newborns in Ethiopia you expect things to be a little different from what you’re used to in the U.S. To be perfectly honest, a little worse. But, Ethiopia actually surprised me, even before I took off. I
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By Fanta Kiros This week, more than 90 US companies attended the U.S-African Summit in Washington, DC. During the meeting, President Obama announced that American companies — many with trade assistance from the US Export-Import Bank — are declaring new deals across Africa in clean energy, aviation, banking, and construction. These deals are estimated to
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By Doyle McManus Los Angeles Times The Obama administration erred on the side of inclusion in deciding which leaders to invite to its ambitious U.S.-Africa summit this week — at least in the view of human rights advocates.. The guest list featured some of Africa’s nastiest tyrants, including autocrats such as Angola’s Jose Eduardo dos
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Human Rights Watch By Daniel Bekele Three notorious African leaders – Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, Eritrea’s Isaias Afewerki, and Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir – are not invited to this week’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C. But a number of other long-ruling African strongmen, like Angola’s José Eduardo dos Santos, Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni, will be there. In fact, over a dozen African countries which will be
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LA Times By MERON AHADU AND LULIT MESFIN When Secretary of State John F. Kerry traveled to Ethiopia last year, he met a young blogger named Natnael Feleke. When he returned a few months ago, Kerry found that Feleke, along with five other bloggers and three journalists, had been arrested — the latest in a long
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By Daniel Teferra (PhD) There is a familiar argument that in the early stages of economic development, African countries do not need democracy. They just need command growth. Democracy will naturally follow. Southeast Asian countries, such as, South Korea are given as examples. However, command growth cannot lend itself to democracy because the two are
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The Guardian By Maaza Mengiste A single photo focused the world’s attention on Sudan in 93. As Gaza and MH17 dominate, Africa’s horrors remain invisible Kevin Carter’s photograph, taken during the 1993 famine in Sudan. ‘The outcry from the public was immediate and visceral.’ Photograph: Megan Patricia Carter Trust/Kevin Carter/Corbis Sygma In the photograph a
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Alarabiya By Abdel Latif el-Menawy Egypt and Ethiopia issued a joint statement a few weeks ago, confirming their mutual commitment to the principles of cooperation, mutual respect and good neighborly relations as well as to the principles of respecting international law and achieving common interests. The statement was issued by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime
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By Beyene, B.M.* In 2011, the Ethiopian government announced its plan to construct the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile. Acknowledging the difficulty to get funding from foreign sources (mainly due to Egypt’s campaign against any project on the Nile in the upstream countries), the government made it clear from the onset
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By Alemayehu G. Mariam Last week, the regime in Ethiopia announced its abduction of Andaragatchew Tsgie, General Secretary of the Ethiopian opposition group known as Ginbot 7 Movement for Justice, Freedom and Democracy, with smug delight. According to the regime, the “Ethiopian national security service coordinating with its Yemeni counterpart had detained and transferred to Ethiopia
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