The President Samia Suluhu Hassan has pardoned 5,001 prisoners who were serving various sentences in different correction facilities across the country.
Of these prisoners, 1,516 have been released after a quarter of their sentence was reduced in lieu of a...
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...
MOGADISHU, Somalia — It was a fairly typical Thursday in Mogadishu and by mid-morning, the fighting had already reached a fever pitch. From the roof of a broken city building artillery flashes tore the clear blue sky, clouds of...
Haile Gebrselassie, back in full training after rescinding a premature decision to retire, is eying a political career when he finally hangs up his running shoes.”I want to do something for Ethiopia, for Africa, for myself, my family and...
The amount of fuel import bills during the first nine months of the current Ethiopian fiscal year surpassed export earnings secured over the same period, it was learnt by The Reporter.
The cost of fuel import has been a major...
MORTARS thunder and donkeys bray as Major Anthony Lukwago Mbusi, a forward commander with African Union troops in Mogadishu, climbs through holes his men have made in the walls of abandoned houses along the front lines in the embattled...
The Horn of Africa
David H. Shinn
Adjunct Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs
George Washington University
Overview
In assessing the impact on Sub-Saharan Africa of the political upheaval in North Africa and the Middle East since the beginning of the year, it is...
MINNEAPOLIS — A group of elders in the Minneapolis Somali community on Wednesday publicly denounced al-Shabab, making it clear that they do not support the terror group they say is responsible for “sinister” acts of recruiting young Americans to...
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...
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...
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