Ethiopia Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says failures in the U.S. financial system are largely to blame for Africa's economic crisis, and pointed to China as a possible key to recovery. Our correspondent in Addis Ababa has details of the...
Charles Sutton — usually known as Charlie — came to Ethiopia with the Peace Corps in 1966. He was a musician, and even before he arrived, Charlie had discovered Ethiopian music through his Amharic language instructors. He describes the...
(This story was first issued in January this year. We are repeating it because the pirate’s comments provide a useful insight into the motives of the pirates involved in the present stand-off in the Indian Ocean off Somalia)
GAROWE, Somalia,...
Somali Piracy Conference
Hosted by National Maritime Intelligence Center and Office of Naval Intelligence
7 April 2009
Rise of Piracy and Other Maritime Insecurity in Somalia
Remarks by David H. Shinn
Adjunct Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
Two Caveats
Let me...
Ethiopian opposition leader and former judge Ms. Birtukan Mideksa jailed for life by increasingly repressive Ethiopian regime.
Human rights demonstrators gathered last week throughout the world to demand the unconditional release of jailed Ethiopian opposition leader Ms. Birtukan Mideksa and...
Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) says Eritrea is among the countries through which weapons were being smuggled into Gaza to be used against Israel.
“This is a complicated smuggling system that involves many different people around the world,” one official...
UNITED NATIONS — A 16-year arms embargo against Somalia has been constantly violated with weapons mainly coming from Yemen and financed by Eritrea as well as Arab and Islamic donors, a UN report said Friday.
“Most serviceable weapons and almost...
Ethiopia has reaffirmed that it will withdraw its forces from Somalia by the end of the month after confusion over its pullout dates.
Reporters in the Somali capital say residents in Mogadishu expected the troops to have gone by Friday,...
UNITED NATIONS — A 16-year arms embargo against Somalia has been constantly violated with weapons mainly coming from Yemen and financed by Eritrea as well as Arab and Islamic donors, a UN report said Friday.
“Most serviceable weapons and almost...
More than 300 Ethiopian troops arrived in Darfur over the last two days to boost the strength of the joint United Nations-African Union force, known as UNAMID, deployed earlier this year in an attempt to suppress the violence and...
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