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...
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...
The reason why OLF went to Eritrea was because it has nowhere to go Ato Ababiya Abajobir had served as head of Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). During the transitional government (1991-95), he was assigned as Ethiopia's ambassador to Egypt....
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Gold miners are expanding their focus in Africa to the northeast of the continent, a region they largely bypassed during the decade-long rally in gold prices.
Big-name gold miners such as AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. and Newmont Mining Corp. are exploring...
Aaron Maasho
* Proposal to be debated before approval in early July
* Economy expected to maintain growth this year
ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia has proposed a record 117.8 billion birr ($6.98 billion) annual budget for next year, aiming to build infrastructure,...
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...
ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia’s supreme court on Monday sentenced to death former Marxist ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam, granting a prosecution appeal that argued a life sentence he was given for genocide was unequal to his crimes.
But Mengistu, who has lived...
(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,...
ADDIS ABABA - When Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi came to power in 1991, leaders in the West clamoured to meet the 34-year-old former rebel who had spent 17 years fighting to overthrow a communist regime. Former U.S. President...
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