Month: June 2013
- Africa
Ethiopia says equitable use of the Nile is its redline during negotiations
Emnet Assefa Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said in negotiations with Egypt equitable use of the Nile water is Ethiopia’s redline that his government would not allow any country to cross. Briefing the media this morning for the first time since he was selected as Prime Minister in Sep. 2012 following the death in August of Meles Zenawi, PM Hailemariam firmly…
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U.S. GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES NEW LAND ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM TO IMPROVE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
Sileshi Getahun, State Minister of Agriculture, and Dennis Weller, Mission Director of USAID Ethiopia, officially launched the “Land Administration to Nurture Development” (LAND) program today at a national conference in Addis Ababa. The program builds on previous USAID land projects and will reach more regions than before. In two previous USAID and Ministry of Agriculture projects carried out from 2005-2013,…
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After Ahmadinejad
Mehdi Khalaji The factional disputes that have long paralyzed Iranian policymaking will likely persist after the upcoming election, leaving the regime with no choice but to persist in its diplomatic standoff with the West. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s preferred successor, Esfandiar Rahim Mashai, will not be running in the June 14 election. Neither will former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. The…
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To the Wonder: A look at our lives with new eyes
Andrew DeCort To the Wonder unfolds as an avalanche of tenderness. Much of the film is shot during the ‘magic hours’ when the world shines with warmth and rest, brought to dance by the everyday ballet of its central character’s joy in life, accompanied by hauntingly beautiful music. Simultaneously, Wonder is an almost unbearably raw look at the trauma of…
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The way to grow old gracefully and gratefully
Ashenafi Zedebub We all know that some people are “old” at forty, while others are “young” at seventy. Scholars say people must realize that all of us have three stages of ages: our age in years, usually regarded as much more important as it really is; our bodily age, which by no means be the same as the physical average…
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Inside Ethiopia’s institutionalized corruption
The practice of corruption in Ethiopia is not an act of individuals, it is a phenomenon which constitutes the bigger part of the nation’s institutional structure Tsedale Lemma &Emnet Assefa Beginning of May this year was no ordinary month for Ethiopia’s anti-graft body, the Federal Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (FEACC). For the second time in its history of a little…
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The Pianist :Samuel Yirga
Zela Gayle “Love” is what “motivates” him to play the piano because “the sound of it is so much related to the feeling of love.” These are not words from a teenage boy, who is deep in his high school crash; these are the words of an Ethiopian pianist Samuel Yirga, who, at 27, is fast becoming one of…
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Somalia
Dear Editor, Please allow me to commend you on your courageous expedition to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, a country we in Ethiopia in particular and the whole world in general think is a wasted land. Your cover story (Somalia: the failed state no more, May 2013) asked a critical question on why Ethiopia was not a part of the…
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Beauty knows no misery
Habibi, 17, is an internally displaced Somali girl living with her 12 siblings and other relatives in a small shack inside a makeshift camp located not far from the Mogadishu Airport. She is the second generation living as a refugee. Her mother was a refugee who was first displaced in the civil war that followed the ousting in 1991 of…
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