By THE New York Times EDITORIAL BOARD One major purpose of President Obama’s landmark White House summit meeting on Africa last week was to advertise this often underrated continent’s economic potential and ensure it a brighter future. But determined follow-through will be required if the aspirations of the president and more than 40 African heads of state
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BBC Tens of thousands of Iraqi Christians and Yazidis are understood to have fled their homes, as James Robbins reports US President Barack Obama says he has authorised targeted airstrikes against Islamic militants in northern Iraq, if they threaten US interests. However, he said US troops would be not be sent back to Iraq. He
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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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Human Rights Watch Obama Should Press African Leaders to End Repression (Washington, DC) – US President Barack Obama should ensure that human rights concerns are a major focus of the US-Africa Leaders Summit, Human Rights Watch said today. Rights concerns should not be relegated to meetings in the margins of the summit. The theme of
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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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Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – Britain summoned Ethiopia’s chargé d’affaires on Monday to raise its concerns about the arrest of a British national being held in Ethiopia who has been sentenced to death over his involvement with an opposition political group. Andargachew Tsige was sentenced to death in 2009 in absentia and another trial handed him
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Zegabi.com By Berhan Daniel PRESS RELEASE ATLANTA (August 4, 2014) – A U.S.-based blogger who operates a popular Ethiopian news and opinion website has filed a $120 million counter lawsuit against the Government of Ethiopia, a major U.S. lawfirm named DLA Piper, Saudi billionaire Mohammed Al Amoudi and others on Monday morning. The blogger, Mr. Elias
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Sydney Morning Herald “It’s hard though when people do not have any money at all,”: Heather Hoist. Photo: Getty Images By AISHA DOW At least 25 delegates who attended Melbourne’s high-profile AIDS conference intend to seek asylum in Australia after failing to board their flights home last week. The men and women, who are mostly from African
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