Kyiv Post, Ukraine
October 22, 2008
24.ua
Faina and the pirates
The situation on the Faina, a ship seized by Somali pirates, is critical, as reserves of water, food and fuel, including diesel fuel for the ship’s generators, will last less than 30 hours, Channel 5 reported on Oct.22, with reference to Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Commissioner Nina [...]
SundayTimes, London
October 19, 2008
Patrick Richardson heads to Ethiopia in search of the Ark of the Covenant
Patrick Richardson
About 500 miles north of Addis Ababa, in the province of Tigray, is the dusty overgrown village of Aksum. And at the end of its only paved street, inside an arid compound, is St Mary of Zion [...]
Eastern Africa: Legacy of Frailty
Gilbert M. Khadiagala
October 2008
International Peace Institute
Africa Program Working Papers Series
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Oct 2nd 2008
The spread of piracy just draws attention to the growing chaos on Somalia’s land
TIPPED off by friends in ports from Odessa to Mombasa, Somali pirates captured a Ukrainian freighter, the MV Faina, in the Gulf of Aden and steered it to Somalia’s coast. At first they demanded $20m for [...]
BBC
October 19, 2008
Wyre Davies
Video: Inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre:
The stone huts of Deir al Sultan monastery are at the heart of the row
An unholy row is threatening one of the most sacred places in Christianity - the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
The centuries-old site, where many [...]
ReliefWeb/UN
October 15, 2008
The United Nations, in conjunction with the Government of Ethiopia, has revised the financial requirements upward for humanitarian aid to Ethiopia. A total of $265.7 million is required over the next three months to provide urgent assistance to 6.4 million Ethiopians affected by an ongoing drought caused by failed rains and by increased [...]
AP
October 15, 2008
NAIROBI, Kenya — A spokesman for Somali pirates holding an arms-laden Ukrainian ship says they have withdrawn their threat to blow up the vessel if a ransom is not paid, because they are negotiating its release.
Spokesman Sugule Ali says negotiations are going very well.
“We have withdrawn it,” Ali said Wednesday, referring to the [...]
UN News Centre
Text of the final report: UNMEE Report
13 October 2008
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has transmitted to the Security Council the last report issued by the independent commission on Ethiopia and Eritrea’s common boundary.
In 2002, the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission handed down a final and binding decision awarding Badme, the town that triggered fierce fighting [...]
Reporter, Ethiopia
October 11, 2008
Kaleyesus Bekele
The Council of Ministers last week endorsed an oil exploration and development license for the US-based company Calvalley. The draft proposal was submitted to the Council by the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME).
Following Calvalley’s request to be granted a petroleum exploration license, officials of MME and executives of the company [...]
Reuters
Fri 19 Sep 2008
Abdi Sheikh and Ibrahim Mohamed
MOGADISHU - Somalia’s warring parties pounded each other with artillery in Mogadishu on Friday after an African Union military aircraft defied a rebel ban on planes using the capital’s international airport.
Witnesses said at least 15 people were killed.
The bombed-out city’s airport had been abandoned since Tuesday after Islamist [...]
