Reporter, Ethiopia August 7, 2011 KALEYESUS BEKELE Experts unable to retrieve damaged segment The accident investigation report on the Ethiopian Boeing 737-800 aircraft that crashed on the coast of Beirut on January 2010 has been delayed. Last February the Lebanese Public Works and Transport Ministry said that the accident investigation report would be finalised in [...]
Category Archives: Regional
Famine a boon for Somali militants, Ethiopia opens 4th camp for fleeing Somalis
August 6, 2011 – 11:49 am
AP/Washington Post August 5, 2011 GENEVA — Islamic militants in Somalia who deny there’s famine and block most aid are enjoying a boon in recruitment by giving people money at a time of rising food prices, United Nations officials said Friday. The hardline militant group al-Shabab, whose control of much of southern Somalia and ties [...]
Mr. Yemane Ghebreab speaks to the UN SC
August 6, 2011 – 11:44 am
Embassy of Eritrea in the US Forwarded to East Africa Forum on August 4, 2011 Permanent Mission of Eritrea to the United Nations, New York Preliminary Remarks by Mr. Yemane Ghebreab Political Adviser to the President of the State of Eritrea Before the United Nations Security Council Committee Pursuant to resolution 751 (1992) and 1907 [...]
Boy fighters of Somalia warn of al-Shabab cruelty
August 5, 2011 – 12:39 am
Salon/AP August 3, 2011 JASON STRAZIUSO AP A malnourished mentally disabled refugee from Somalia is tied down to prevent him falling out of his bed at a hospital of the International Rescue Committee, IRC, in Dadaab, Kenya, Wednesday, Aug 3, 2011. Dadaab, a camp designed for 90,000 people now houses around 440,000 refugees. Almost all [...]
Somali famine spreads to three more areas, says UN
August 5, 2011 – 12:28 am
BBC August 3, 2011 A child from southern Somalia takes food at a camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday 3 August 2011 Tens of thousands of people have been fleeing to the capital in search of food Three new areas of Somalia have been classified as having been hit by famine, the UN says. It declared [...]
Punjab farmers to grow multiple crops in Ethiopia
August 5, 2011 – 12:25 am
Business Standard, India August 2, 2011 Vijay C Roy New Delhi/ Chandigarh – Karuturi Global Ltd, the largest rose producer in the world, has acquired about 7,70,000 acres of land in Ethiopia for cultivation of cereal crops. If everything goes as planned, the enterprising farmers of Punjab would be seen managing large farms in Ethiopia [...]
Eritrea seeks to rejoin East African body Igad
August 5, 2011 – 12:22 am
www.eastafricaforum.net BBC August 2, 2011 Eritrea’s President Isaias Afewerki has fallen out with most of his neighbours Eritrea’s neighbours say they are still considering its request to rejoin the East African body, Igad, after initially saying they welcomed its bid to end years of isolation. Igad’s Executive Secretary, Mahboub Maalim, told the BBC that the [...]
Germany blames Chinese land buys for Africa drought
July 30, 2011 – 8:32 pm
AFP July 28, 2011 BERLIN — Germany’s Africa policy coordinator on Thursday blamed China’s practice of buying up land in the Horn of Africa for contributing to the devastating drought ravaging the region. Guenter Nooke told the daily Frankfurter Rundschau it was clear that “this catastrophe is also man-made”. “In the case of Ethiopia there [...]
Catastrophe in the Horn: Causes and Responses
July 28, 2011 – 10:59 am
Council on Foreign Relations July 26, 2011 Stewart M. Patrick (STR New/ Courtesy Reuters). Newly arrived Somali refugees sit in the open as they await medical examinations for their children at the Dadaab refugee camp, near the Kenya-Somalia border The area straddling Somalia, Ethiopia and northern Kenya, has been dubbed the “triangle of death” as [...]
Somalia famine: WFP begins aid airlift to Mogadishu
July 28, 2011 – 12:48 am
BBC July 27, 2011 The drought has been especially hard on young children in Somalia The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has begun to airlift emergency food supplies to famine-struck Somalia. The first flight, with 10 tonnes of nutritional supplements for children, has landed in the capital Mogadishu, an African Union official told the BBC. [...]