Day: February 17, 2015

February 17, 2015

Letters

#JusticeForHanna Dear Editor, I would like to point out some significant inconsistencies in your magazine. Your editorial (#JusticeForHanna, Dec. 2014) asks Ethiopians to “wakeup” against the injustices towards women in society. The article is certainly geared more towards gender based violence than inequality between the two genders. However there is a larger theme speaking about the need for equality.…
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Africa

February 17, 2015

Car accident, fire kills twelve in west Addis Abeba

A fire that broke out following a deadly car accident involving the Chinese made Sinotruk and a minivan full of passengers has claimed the lives of twelve people and left two critically wounded, according to a report on Fana Broadcasting Corporate S.C (FBC). The accident happened yesterday at about 7:20 pm local time in Burayu town, Woreda two at…
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February 17, 2015

‘Old habits die hard’

Taye Negussie (PhD) Very few would doubt that the period between the late 1980’s and early 1990s was indeed one of the most remarkable periods in recent history of world political economy as it set the demise of the Eastern communist camp, thereby heralding presumably the end of the notorious Cold War. The ensuing ideological mood in the…
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