By Alemayehu Behulu March 14, 2014 In recent days, my cousin, Dr. Zelalam Eshete has been writing articles about our beloved motherland, Ethiopia. I am so happy to see an educated young Ethiopian like him participating in socio-political debates. I…
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By Alemayehu Behulu March 14, 2014 In recent days, my cousin, Dr. Zelalam Eshete has been writing articles about our beloved motherland, Ethiopia. I am so happy to see an educated young Ethiopian like him participating in socio-political debates. I…
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By William Easterly, Time March 13, 2014 Too much of America’s foreign aid funds what I call authoritarian development. That’s when the international community–experts from the U.N. and other bodies–swoop into third-world countries and offer purely technical assistance to dictatorships like…
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By Carol Matlack March 12, 2014 Ethiopia is a largely agricultural nation of 94 million people that endures frequent droughts and famine, with a per-capita income of a bit more than $100 per month. Is it ready for Heineken beer…
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By Jenny Vaughan, AFP March 11, 2014 Addis Ababa (AFP) – Above Addis Ababa’s concrete skyline, cranes tower high amid blasts from nearby drills and diggers. At the feet of buildings shrouded in bamboo scaffolding, excavators dig up dirt tracks,…
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By Lauren Everitt, BBC March 11, 2014 A new report from researchers at Oxford University argues that large dams are a risky investment – soaring past projected budgets, drowning emerging economies in debt and failing to deliver promised benefits .…
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March 10, 2014 The New Yorker POSTED BY JOSHUA KOPSTEIN Before Edward Snowden sparked a global debate about government surveillance, it was a fact of life for Tadesse Kersmo. During Ethiopia’s national elections, in 2005, he and his wife campaigned for…
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09 March 2014 By Brooke Kantor, Harvard Political Review The Aswan Dam Water and energy are two central issues to people of the Middle East and North Africa. They have remained at the top of governments’ agendas, enduring regime changes, military…
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March 7th, 2014 Egypt’s musical-chairs government faces enough challenges. So why is a construction project almost 1,800 miles from Cairo provoking fears over Egypt’s national survival? Egypt and Ethiopia are butting heads over the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a $4…
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MARCH 6, 2014 0 The recent hijacking of an Ethiopian Airlinesjetliner by its co-pilot to Geneva has members of a politically divided community guessing the man’s intentions. What’s more, they are suspicious about each other’s interpretations.For Switzerland’s 2,000-strong Ethiopian community – like…
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