By Alemayehu G. Mariam Coca Cola is NOT the real thing Diaspora Ethiopians are expressing their outrage on social and online media and calling for a boycott of Coca Cola Company for its unethical, arbitrary and unfair dealings with Ethiopia’s pop music superstar Teodros Kassahun (Teddy Afro). They say the Coca Cola Company singled out Teddy
The post Why I am boycotting Coca-Cola appeared first on 6KILO.com.
World Bulletin/News Desk A planned visit by Egypt’s newly-inaugurated President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to Ethiopia has generated mixed reactions in the African country. “I am optimistic that al-Sisi’s visit will be the beginning to communicate,” Dr. Gebremedhin Simon, Professor of School of Journalism and Communication at Addis Ababa University, told Anadolu Agency on Saturday. Ethiopia announced
The post Egypt President’s visit draws mixed opinions in Ethiopia appeared first on 6KILO.com.
ADDISSTANDARD By Mahelt Fasil A judge at the Arada First Instance Court, First Bench, told the police this morning to finalize its investigations and bring charges against three independent journalists and three members of the blog Zone9 detained without charges since 25th and 26th of April this year. Defense lawyer Amha Mekonnen told journalists at
The post JUDGE TELLS POLICE TO BRING CHARGES AGAINST ETHIOPIAN BLOGGERS, JOURNALISTS appeared first on 6KILO.com.
By Pierre Crabitès Foreign Affairs October 1929 THE Egyptian Gazette of May 9, 1929, carried the text of an agreement on the long-debated question as to the use of the waters of the River Nile. The agreement, which recognizes on the one hand.that the Sudan needs more water for its development, and on the other hand that
The post The Nile Waters Agreement appeared first on 6KILO.com.
World Bulletin Kuwait’s Ambassador in Addis Ababa on Thursday said that his country made efforts to ensure that a suspension of Egypt’s African Union (A.U.) activities would be reserved. “The efforts Kuwait makes to ensure that this suspension is lifted boil down to Egypt’s importance and its role in the pan-African body, Rashed Faleh al-Hajri
The post Kuwait says mediating Egypt’s return to African Union appeared first on 6KILO.com.
By Elissa Jobson in Addis Ababa Thw Africa Report Photo Credits: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Evan Schneider/UN), Debretsion Gebremichael (All Rights Reserved), Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi (All Rights Reserved) Prime Minister Hailemariam is developing a style of consensual politics, but some politicans and businessmen are having difficulty adjusting. The passing of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in August 2012
The post Ethiopia: The Post-Meles Universe Takes Shape appeared first on 6KILO.com.
World Bulletin/News Desk The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry said Thursday that it had noticed a shift in Egypt’s stance regarding its multibillion-dollar hydroelectric dam, currently being built on the Nile’s upper reaches, which Cairo has long feared would reduce its traditional share of water. “Egyptians have begun to show willingness… to resolve the Nile water dispute
The post Ethiopia sees Egyptian change of heart on Nile dam appeared first on 6KILO.com.
By David H. Shinn Inernational Policy Digest Liu Zhen/China News Service Ethiopia was never colonized and along with China has a long imperial history. China’s imperial period came to an end with the fall of the Qing dynasty and formation of the Republic of China as a constitutional republic in 1912. The overthrow of Emperor
The post Ethiopia and China: How Two Former Empires Connected in the 20th Century appeared first on 6KILO.com.
Egypt State Information Service Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom said President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and Prime Minister Hailemarian Desalign would hold a summit meeting in Malapo, Equatorial Guinea, within two weeks to launch a new chapter of relations between the two countries. The Ethiopian top diplomat said there is an agreement between the two
The post Egyptian Ethiopian Summit Will Be Held in Equatorial Guinea appeared first on 6KILO.com.
By Nael M Shama Ahram Online Although Egypt is a political powerhouse in the Middle East, its foreign policy hardly reflects that. Under its longtime president Hosni Mubarak, Egypt receded into a long phase of quietism and withdrawal. Mubarak is gone, but “Mubarakism without Mubarak” has persisted, even under the short-lived rule of Islamist president
The post The dilemmas of Egyptian foreign policy appeared first on 6KILO.com.