VOA August 30, 2010 Photo: AP Somali government forces walk outside the Muna Hotel which was stormed by a suicide bomber and a gunman in Mogadishu, Somalia, 24 Aug 2010 Somalia’s government is urgently appealing for more help as insurgents threaten to seize full control of the capital, Mogadishu. The appeal Monday came on the [...]
Awramba Times Says Government Demands to Know Its Information Sources
Addis Neger online, US/UK August 27, 2010 One of Ethiopia’s independent weekly newspapers claimed that the government has requested it to reveal its information sources for its news. According to the information posted on the newspaper’s website, the request was made on a letter sent to Awramba Times on August 26, 2010 by the Ethiopian [...]
Report says EU biofuel demand fuelling land grab in Africa
Xinhua, China August 27, 2010 NAIROBI – The demand for biofuel in the European Union is fuelling land grabbing in Africa, reducing the land available to grow crops in a continent that already faces food deficit situation, a new report has said. The EU is targeting to use at least 10 percent biofuel by 2020 [...]
Ethiopia troops in Somalia to battle radicals
Daily Nation, Kenya August 29, 2010 Abdulkadir Khalif Mogadishu – A large number of Ethiopian troops in military vehicles on Sunday reached Somali villages after crossing its borders with Hiran region in Central Somalia. The Ethiopians, according to residents in the Beledweyne town, 335 kilometres north of Mogadishu, seem more serious than before to tackle [...]
Landslide kills 19, injures more than 20 in Ethiopia
APA August 26, 2010 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) At least 19 people died and more than 20 were injured by a landslide in Ethiopia due to the on-going heavy rains in the country, Ethiopian police said here on Wednesday. The landslide occurred late on Tuesday following heavy rains in a town called Mersa, in the Amhara [...]
Somalia: Al Shabaab Launches Mogadishu Attacks
http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20100824_somalia_al_shabaab_launches_mogadishu_attacks Stratfor, US private strategic analysis group August 24, 2010 One day after Somali jihadist group al Shabaab announced the start of a “massive war” against foreign forces in Mogadishu, al Shabaab carried out multiple attacks in the capital beginning late Aug. 23. The violence culminated in a suicide attack carried out in government-held territory [...]
Somalia has a role model for success on its doorstep
Guardian August 26, 2010 Torn between violent extremists and a puppet government, Somalia could look to Somaliland for a lesson in nation building Photograph: Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP A young boy leads al-Shabab fighters on military exercise in Suqaholaha neighborhood in northern Mogadishu, Somalia. The escalating war for control of what is left of Somalia, between [...]
Somali official: Reports of Ethiopian troops in area ‘mere rumors’
CNN August 28, 2010 A Somali official denied reports that Ethiopian troops had crossed into the country to help battle Islamist rebels trying to take control of the nation’s capital. “I can confirm to you that no Ethiopian soldier has come to this town of Dolo,” said Gov. Abdifatah Gesey of the Bay region in [...]
Coffee threatened by beetles in a warming world
Guardian, UK August 26, 2010 A tiny insect that thrives in warmer temperatures — the coffee berry borer — has been spreading steadily, devastating coffee plants in Africa, Latin America, and around the world The highlands of southwestern Ethiopia should be ideal for growing coffee. After all, this is the region where coffee first originated [...]
US Senate Bill: Support for Democracy and Human Rights in Ethiopia Act of 2010”
Library of Congress, US Government “Support for Democracy and Human Rights in Ethiopia Act of 2010” Text of Bill Introduced in the US Senate on August 5, 2010 by Senators Feingold and Leahy: S 3757 IS 111th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3757 To reaffirm United States objectives in Ethiopia and encourage critical democratic and humanitarian [...]
