Al Ahram, Egypt August 28, 2011 The main focus of the visit will be the Nile Basin and the situation in Sudan, Libya and Somalia The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has announced that the Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is planning to visit Cairo in September. Zenawi’s visit was originally planned for July but was cancelled [...]
Author Archives: Shlomo Bachrach
Ethiopia’s Deplorable Conduct at IGAD Meeting
September 1, 2011 – 10:27 pm
Shabait, Government of Ethiopia August 26, 2011 Press Statement In what is almost a familiar pattern now, Ethiopian security agents manhandling Eritrea’s delegate to IGAD’s 40th Extra-ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers which was convened in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Abeba, this Wednesday 24th August. Eritrea’s envoy was harassed, verbally abused, and threatened by [...]
Ethiopian officials meet ET409 accident investigation team
September 1, 2011 – 10:24 pm
Reporter, Ethiopia August 27, 2011 KALEYESUS BEKELE – Investigation team to start analysing facts Representatives of the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority (ECAA) and the Ethiopian Airlines last week met the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 aircraft accident investigation team in Beirut. Reliable sources told The Reporter that Girma Gebre, head of the Aircraft Accident Prevention and [...]
Igad’s new dilemma over Eritrea return
September 1, 2011 – 10:20 pm
The East African, Kenya August 27, 2011 Editorial The question facing regional leaders is whether to rehabilitate or isolate Eritrea? The Red Sea country suspended itself from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development in 2007 on the basis that the regional body had given Ethiopia unfettered control over Somali issues. Recently, Eritrea reactivated its membership of [...]
Somali Islamists behead 11 civilians in capital
September 1, 2011 – 10:18 pm
AP August 26, 2011 ABDI GULED MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somali Islamist rebels have beheaded at least 11 civilians in the capital in the past two weeks, a campaign of terror that residents said Friday is designed to show the insurgency can still act in Mogadishu after withdrawing from their bases there earlier this month. “We [...]
Protesters crash Eritrean culture festival in Oakland
September 1, 2011 – 9:55 pm
Mercury News, USA August 15, 2011 Matt O’Brien (Anda Chu/Staff) Youth soccer teams “Nakfa” from Pittsburg/Antioch and “Red Sea” from San Jose play a match during a tournament at the Eritrean Western USA Festival being held at Oakland Tech High School, in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011. The annual festival is sponsored by [...]
What went wrong in Eritrea?
September 1, 2011 – 9:48 pm
Guardian August 15, 2011 Dawit Mesfin Dawit Mesfin, an Eritrean, principal director of Justice Africa, UK Eritrea’s hard-won independence promised much for the future, but instead it brought repression, war, secrecy and international pariah status I recently read an extensive report prepared by the UN Monitoring group on Somalia and Eritrea (pdf), which said Eritrea [...]
AU famine meet raises $351m, figure questioned
August 29, 2011 – 9:32 am
Reuters August 25, 2011 Barry Malone * Summit raises $351 mln * Four heads of state show up * Aid groups say need another $1bln to stop deaths (Recasts with final contributions tally) ADDIS ABABA – A much-delayed African Union summit held to raise money to tackle famine in Somalia and drought in the Horn [...]
Ethiopia to Import 300,000 Tons of Wheat to Build Reserves
August 29, 2011 – 9:30 am
Bloomberg/Businessweek, US August 25, 2011 William Davison Ethiopia will import 300,000 metric tons of wheat for reserves and to assure food supply amid drought, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said. The milling wheat, a variety used to make bread, has already been bought and will now be shipped, Berhane Hailu, the manager of the state-owned Ethiopian [...]
In Brief: More Somalis fleeing to Yemen
August 29, 2011 – 9:29 am
IRIN August 26, 2011 GENEVA – An increasing number of Somalis, fleeing drought and insecurity, are making their way to Yemen aboard overcrowded, rickety boats, the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, said. At the same time, the number of Somalis arriving in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, or crossing into Kenya is dropping, UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards [...]