Year: 2013
- Africa
AfDB signs two trade-related programs worth $8.5 million with COMESA
Both projects were developed by the AfDB and the three regional economic communities (RECs): EAC, COMESA and SADC. A delegation from the African Development Bank led by Moono Mupotola, Division Manager, Regional Integration and Trade (ONRI), and Freddie Kwesiga, Resident Representative in Zambia, and comprised of Zambia Country Office, ONRI and Southern Africa Regional Resource Centre officials participated in…
Click Here to read more. - Africa
Students riot at Arba Minch University
“The police shot three students, arrested more than seven” eye witness A students’ demonstration that began at about 4Pm yesterday in Arba Minich University, located in the outskirts of Arba Minch town, 500 km south of Addis Ababa, resulted in a shooting by the region’s police force leaving three students wounded and more than five students arrested. According to…
Click Here to read more. - Africa
PM Hailemariam and President Uhuru to address African Media Leaders Forum in Addis Ababa
Africa’s largest gathering of media leaders from the continent and beyond-the African Media Leaders Forum (AMLF) will convene in Addis Ababa on November 6-8, 2013. The two day event will be held at the United Nations Convention Centre on the theme ‘Media and African Renaissance’. AMLF offers delegates a unique space to debate the core issues facing the industry on…
Click Here to read more. - Art Review
Blue Jasmine: elegance, honesty, insight
Andrew DeCort Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine” is one of the most endearing, delightful depictions of human fragility and fallibility in recent memory. The movie follows the stories of two non-biological sisters, Ginger (Sally Hawkins) and Jasmine (Cate Blanchett), who were adopted as children and now go about their lives as adults. Jasmine wants to spend her life with someone “substantial,”…
Click Here to read more. -
Keeping the Balance – A problem of the majority
Ashenafi Zedebub As people nowadays have become sensitive as regards nutrition and with the increasing evidence supporting a vegan diet, there has been far too much argument and debate over the two types of diets. But experts in the field are of the opinion that what people should need is only “to focus on the balance” in order to remain…
Click Here to read more. - Art Review
‘A Most Wanted Man’ by John Le Carre
By Mike Sullivan The Bottom Line Like The Mission Song, I have a feeling that A Most Wanted Man will warrant a 4 star rating a month later as the tale continues to grow in impact and relevance in my mind. But like many of the modern era spies that John Le Carre writes about, my current mindset keeps me…
Click Here to read more. -
Not the nation’s headache
Dear Editor, I read your cover story on Islamic extremism in Ethiopia with a mixture of apprehension and anger at the government of Ethiopia, (It’s the nation’s headache too, Sep. 2013). Politically the current regime is not popular in the areas where your reporters have traveled to, its environs and beyond. The regime knows it, too, that it suffers from…
Click Here to read more. - Africa
Aron Mitu: an emerging Ethiopian dance artist in Slovakia
Our Art and Entertainment Editor Zela Gayle shares with us the life of Aron Mitu, an Ethiopian born dancer, model and actress with an ambition to close the gap between her culture and an all European environment Aron Mitu remembers feeling sad and confused upon leaving Ethiopia when she was just ten years old. Growing up in Slovakia where her…
Click Here to read more. -
Is Assad’s Syria a “win” for Moscow?
Russia’s current leaders may believe that public opinion—whether in Russia, the Middle East, or anywhere else—is unimportant and can be ignored, but over time it may prove a serious constraint on Moscow’s efforts to protect unpopular authoritarian regimes such as the one in Syria Mark N. Katz In the latter part of 2012 and the beginning of 2013, the Russian-backed…
Click Here to read more.