UPI
March 9, 2010
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel is struggling to keep its diplomatic friends in Africa as Iran makes a determined effort to expand its influence there, making the continent an emerging theater in the Iran-Israel confrontation.
But these days the Jewish state has a new ally, Kenya, which wants Israeli help to fight the growing [...]
Category Archives: AU
Israel eyes new alliances in Africa
March 11, 2010 – 8:31 pm
East Africa is next hot oil zone
March 11, 2010 – 5:43 pm
UPI
March 10, 2010
NAIROBI, Kenya — East Africa is emerging as the next oil boom following a big strike in Uganda’s
Lake Albert Basin. Other oil and natural gas reserves have been found in Tanzania and Mozambique and exploration is under way in Ethiopia and even war-torn Somalia.
The region, until recently largely ignored by the energy industry, [...]
How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
March 8, 2010 – 3:25 pm
Guardian, UK
March 7, 2010
An Observer investigation reveals how rich countries faced by a global food shortage now farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies for their citizens
A woman tends vegetables at a giant Saudi-financed farm in Ethiopia.
We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards [...]
Rules of Engagement in Ethiopia
February 25, 2010 – 5:20 pm
This Day, Nigeria
February 24, 2010
Some Nigerian journalists who covered the recent Ordinary Session of the African Union in Addis Ababa had the rare privilege of touring the country. They learnt some of the rules of engagement in business and other sectors. In this piece, Juliana Taiwo, who was part of the tour, writes on the [...]
Somalia can handle more funds directly: AU
February 25, 2010 – 5:19 pm
Reuters
February 25, 2010
Abdiaziz Hassan
NAIROBI – Somalia has made progress restoring state institutions and accountability and its administration can now handle more funds directly, the African Union’s deputy head of mission to Somalia said.
For nearly two decades, the Horn of Africa nation has had no functional central government and its transitional administration controls only sections of [...]
Eritrea says US-led sanctions won’t derail economy
February 25, 2010 – 8:55 am
Reuters
February 24, 2010
Jeremy Clarke
ASMARA – Eritrea’s ruling party will press ahead with its economic development plans despite U.N. sanctions and what it sees as anti-Eritrean hostility manufactured by the United States, local media reported on Wednesday.
Abdalla Jabir, head of organisational affairs in the ruling party, accused the United States of masterminding the U.N. resolution and [...]
Experts call for holistic war against piracy
February 22, 2010 – 5:09 pm
The East African, Kenya
February 22, 2010
BERNARD SANGA
International maritime experts are rooting for a multi-pronged approach to eradicate piracy off the Somali coast. They are calling for a land-based strategy, a pointer to the limitations of the on-going sea-based approach.
The proposed strategy, seen by The EastAfrican, underscores the importance of matching the current military [...]
US says not playing politics with aid to Somalia
February 22, 2010 – 5:00 pm
Reuters
February 20, 2010
UNITED NATIONS – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice on Friday dismissed a U.N. official’s charge that the United States was withholding funds and aid to a U.N. food agency in Somalia for political reasons.
This week, U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Somalia Mark Bowden accused Washington of “politicization of serious humanitarian issues” [...]
US claims decline in pirate seizures off Somalia
February 20, 2010 – 9:22 am
AP
February 18, 2010
WASHINGTON — The State Department says that the United States and 46 other countries have made a significant dent in the percentage of successful pirate attacks off the Horn of Africa.
Although the number of pirate attacks is on the rise, fewer of those attacks are successful.
The State Department reported Thursday that pirate attacks [...]
Eritrea Official Denies Asmara’s Involvement In Organizing Protest Against UN- Sanctions
February 19, 2010 – 7:47 am
VOA
February 17, 2010
Peter Clottey
Eritrea’s information minister is denying Asmara’s involvement in a planned protest march next week at the White House against the recent United Nations-imposed sanctions.
Ali Abdu said the organizers of the planned demonstration are ordinary Eritreans living in the United States who he said see the UN targeted sanctions as unfair [...]
