VOA
March 12, 2010
Alula Kebede
An attorney in Seattle sees Lebanese government statements about an incomplete investigation of the crash of Ethiopia Airlines Flight 409 in January as inappropriate.
“Until the final findings of the probe are known, it seems gross speculation for anyone to try to determine what may or may not have happened and to [...]
Category Archives: US
Lawyer cautions about Ethiopian Airlines crash reports
March 14, 2010 – 8:37 am
U.S. has no plan to “Americanize” Somalia conflict
March 14, 2010 – 8:33 am
Reuters
March 13, 2010
WASHINGTON – The United States on Friday denied coordinating plans by Somalia’s embattled government to launch an offensive against Islamist fighters, saying it had no plans to “Americanize” the conflict.
Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson described as inaccurate reports suggesting that U.S. officials were ready to get more militarily involved as Somalia’s government [...]
U.S. report accuses Eritrea of systematic abuses
March 12, 2010 – 11:12 am
Reuters/Washington Post
March 12, 2010
Jeremy Clarke
ASMARA – The United States has intensified its criticism of Eritrea, saying the Red Sea state systematically abuses human rights and is a destabilizing influence in the Horn of Africa.
In its annual human rights country report, released late on Thursday, the U.S. State Department accused Eritrea of sponsoring terrorism in [...]
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, [...]
Choosing Stability Over Democracy in Ethiopia
March 10, 2010 – 7:11 am
World Politics Review, US
March 9, 2010
Lauren Gelfand
Lauren Gelfand is a Nairobi-based political and security analyst
NAIROBI, Kenya — It’s easy to confuse the interior of Nairobi’s Habesha restaurant with a lost corner of Ethiopia. The smell of frankincense and thick, dark coffee waft through the air as the latest tunes by Teddy Afro vie to [...]
Brought to U.S., Man Is Charged With Aiding Somali Terrorists
March 9, 2010 – 10:58 am
NY Times
March 8, 2010
COLIN MOYNIHAN
A man has been brought to the United States from Nigeria to face charges that he provided money to a Somali terrorist group — and that he received military training from that group.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed an indictment on Monday accusing the man, Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, of conspiring to provide [...]
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 [...]
U.S. Aiding Somalia in Its Plan to Retake Its Capital
March 6, 2010 – 11:23 am
New York Times
March 6, 2010
JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The Somali government is preparing a major offensive to take back this capital block by crumbling block, and it takes just a listen to the low growl of a small surveillance plane circling in the night sky overhead to know who is surreptitiously backing that effort.
“It’s the [...]
On the trail of Ethiopia aid and guns
March 5, 2010 – 4:46 pm
BBC
March 4, 2010
Images of the famine in Ethiopia moved millions of people around the world to reach in to their pockets and donate to international aid efforts. But as Martin Plaut has been discovering, there is a disturbing allegation few would choose to confront.
Roughly one million Ethiopians died from results of famine
It was the [...]
Feingold Statement on the Fragile State of Democracy in Africa
March 5, 2010 – 4:43 pm
Office of Senator Russell Feingold, US Senate
March 2, 2010
For the Congressional Record
Mr. President, I’d like to note the many challenges to democracy we are seeing across Africa today. I have long said that promoting and supporting democratic institutions should be a key tenet of our engagement with Africa, as good governance is essential to [...]
