Month: September 2013

  • A disease with no immediate remedy

    Ashenafi Zedebub “………As it progresses very slowly, taking many many years to reach full expression, it would affect the control of muscles.  There may be few symptoms beyond tremor and also alteration in walking.”  This is how Parkinson’s disease looks like! As experts noted, the progress of the illness is very very slow, so much so that one could not…

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  • A year after Meles

    Dear Editor, I enjoyed reading your cover story assessing the political landscape in Ethiopia one year after the death of Meles Zenawi (Ethiopia: a year after Meles, Aug. 2013).  However, I found it hard to comprehend or share your general point about the country having seen no change or little change in the past one year owing to the death…

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  • Art Review

    “EYES AND MIST” BY TARIKU ABAS ETENESH

    Reviewed by Abiy Yonas H.  … The choice is between the child with no mist in his eyes and those gods who want to maintain all men under their spell of ignorance and deprivation.” (P. 281) Description Published: 2012 Publisher: Rehobot Printers 349 pages Tariku’s debut novel Eyes and Mist could be considered as the first fiction written in English…

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  • Art Review

    The Butler: Broken Promises and Political Redemption

    Andrew DeCort The basic ideal at the heart of the American political project is the gradual redemption of founding promises enshrined in law through popular struggle and political process. The Declaration of Independence (1776) stated: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that…

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  • The ABCs of totalitarianism

    Our columnist Taye Negussie (PhD) answers some of the perplexing questions many of us ponder: what is totalitarianism? What are the features most commonly attributed to authoritarian regimes? And, most importantly, how is it possible for totalitarian regimes to subjugate so large a mass of citizens depriving them of their independent individual thought?  The 2009 edition of Encarta premium defines…

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  • Africa

    The resonating sound of her Afro-Electric vibe

    Our art and entertainment editor Zela Gayle looks into the life of Alesandra Seutin, a Zimbabwean born choreographer and artistic director known for her distinctly theatrical choreographic and movement vocabulary which combines physical theatre, innovative scenography, text and dance Alesandra Seutin was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1980, the year her country got its independence, to a family where dance…

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  • Africa

    EU provides €124 million to the AU to support its mission in Somalia

    The European Union (EU) signed an agreement with the African Union (AU) Commission providing €124 million to the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) for the period of June to December 2013. The latest funding brings the overall EU contribution to AMISOM to approximately €600 million since March 2007. The EU says its contribution will continue to cover the costs of…

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  • Africa

    Qatar Airways celebrates new route to Addis Ababa with community initiative

     Children receive uniforms and books for back-to-school  Qatar Airways celebrated the launch of its new route to Ethiopia’s capital city, Addis Ababa by providing school uniforms and books for school-age children participating in the Our Father’s Kitchen program.  Our Father’s Kitchen is a feeding program which provides daily meals for approximately 216 underprivileged children in three different neighborhoods of the…

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  • Africa

    A musical evening with Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru

    The Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival at the end of August dedicated a concert to the music of Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru, the Ethiopian born composer acclaimed as “one of Africa’s most important composers ever”. Ran HaCohen (PhD), our Middle East Correspondent, was at the event Famous in Ethiopia, Emahoy, who has spent the last three decades in a small chamber in…

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  • Middle East

    Military operation in Syria and what then?

    If the U.S. decides on a military strike against Syria, it should be limited in scale to avoid triggering a broader regional conflict. It is also necessary to include any military operation into a broader strategy that would lead to a political solution to the conflict. Wojciech Lorenz The United States is ready to use force in response to a…

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