allAfrica.com 1 June 2009 Sebastien Satigui Sebastien Satigui is the pseudonym of an observer of the Somali situation based in Kenya. Seated on the leather carpet covering the floor of his living room, Mohamed Abdi Rahman is surrounded by friends and family members coming to convey their condolences over the death of his youngest child, [...]
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Momentum for change in coffee marketing
April 25, 2009 – 10:46 pm
Reporter, Ethiopia Saturday, 25 April 2009 Ed.’s Note: This piece of writing is extracted from the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) discussion note which was prepared in December 2008. The birthplace of coffee, Ethiopia is home to some of the finest coffees in the world. Ethiopia is currently the top African exporter and is ranked sixth [...]
‘I’m not a pirate, I’m the saviour of the sea’
April 23, 2009 – 3:37 pm
Times of London April 16, 2009 Jay Bahadur Boyah is a pirate. One of the original “Old Boys”, he quietly pursued his trade in the waters of his coastal home town of Eyl, years before it galvanised the world’s imagination as Somalia’s infamous “pirate haven”. Boyah is dismissive of the recent poseurs, the headline-grabbers who [...]
Ethiopia: Govt, Italy Sign New Cooperation Framework
April 23, 2009 – 9:04 am
allAfrica.com/Monitor, Ethiopia April 23, 2009 Addis Abeba — The governments of Ethiopia and Italy on Tuesday signed a new Cooperation Framework for the years 2009-2011 under which Italy will contribute to Ethiopia more than 46 million Euros to support the education, Health, Rural Development and Water & Sanitation sectors here. The Italian embassy here said [...]
Man claims in video to be US jihadist in Somalia
April 5, 2009 – 3:24 pm
AP April 3, 2009 MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN MOGADISHU, Somalia — A man who calls himself an American promotes holy war in Somalia in a video posted this week on an Islamic militant Web site. A U.S. government contractor who tracks extremist propaganda says the footage is the first to show what may be an American [...]
SOMALIA: Getting tough on foreign vessels to save local fishermen
April 3, 2009 – 9:22 pm
IRIN April 2, 2009 Photo: Aden Dahir/IRIN RADIO Somali fishermen repair fishing nets in the southern coastal town of Merka NAIROBI, 2 April 2009 – Somalia has revoked fishing licences for foreign vessels and is planning a new law to regulate fishing in its waters, a minister told IRIN on 2 April. The move follows [...]
Negotiating a Difficult Course — a Golf Course — in the Hills of Amman
April 1, 2009 – 8:02 am
NY Times March 29, 2009 Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam of Ethiopia, right, kicked past Leonard Patrick Komon to victory. AMMAN, Jordan — It was a world cross-country championship like no other: the first to be staged in the Middle East, the first to be staged on a converted golf course that looked better suited to rugged hiking. [...]
HRW lambastes EU over soft stance on NGO law
February 23, 2009 – 12:26 pm
Reporter February 21, 2009 Bruck Shewareged Human Rights Watch criticized the European Union harshly for not adopting a strict position against the recently adopted Charities and Societies Proclamation in Ethiopia. In a statement released on Wednesday, Lotte Leicht, the EU director for Human Rights Watch, said that the EU should have condemned one of world’s [...]
Ethiopia and US worked secretly together in Somalia
February 18, 2009 – 2:31 pm
Afrik February 14, 2009 PM Zenawi: Somali President’s former allies were terrorists The United States distanced itself from Ethiopia’s military involvement in Somalia but helped to provide intelligence to Ethiopian government during its military operation in Somalia, Ethiopia’s Premier Meles Zenawi has revealed. Zenawi said on Friday the Ethiopian soldiers did not receive any logistical [...]
US Consular official dies in Ethiopia, officials suspect homicide
February 6, 2009 – 11:20 am
The George Washington University Hatchet/US/ a campus newspaper February 5, 2009 Alum dies in Ethiopia, officials suspect homicide 2007 Elliott School graduate worked in Foreign Service Carly Lagrotteria and Sarah Scire Brian Adkins A GW alumnus working for the State Department was found dead in Ethiopia this week and U.S. government officials say his death [...]