Month: January 2014

  • U.S

    America’s tribal mayhem

    America’s polarization eased at the onset of  World War I and through the economic calamity of the Great Depression, and World War II, but today, its society is as polarized as any time since the end of the American Civil War, says our US Correspondent Tomas Mega, from Nevada “What tribe are you?”  While a common question in Africa and…

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  • Africa

    South Korean president to attend the 22nd AU Summit in Addis Ababa

     Summit kicks off today by the PRC Mahlet Fasil The African Union (AU) said Park Cheng-hye, President of South Korea, will attend the 22nd Summit of the AU which kicked off this morning.  “Transforming Africa’s agriculture harnessing opportunities for inclusive growth and sustainable development” is the theme the AU said will be at the center of discussions during the assembly…

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  • Africa

    EU to give Central African countries €3 billion in grant for 2014-2020

    EU Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs will today announce close to €3 billion in grants for countries and organizations in the region of Central Africa for the period 2014-2020. The announcement will be made during a more than two-day event to discuss development cooperation with Ministers and other authorities of the involved countries and regional organizations. The new funding, still…

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  • World News

    Free Trade and Costly Love

    LONDON – The World Trade Organization’s ministerial conference in Bali in December produced a modest package of encouragements to global trade. More broadly, the WTO’s multilateral approach has shown its worth by preventing a massive increase in trade barriers, unlike in 1929-1930, when protectionism helped deepen and broaden the Great Depression. But the main question – whether globalization is a…

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  • Op/Ed

    Reducing inequality will boost economic growth

     Guy Ryder At first glance, it would seem this year’s Davos summit will be off to an auspicious start, with news that the global economy is recovering faster than anticipated. Yet a closer look at the global situation reveals a potentially dangerous gap between profits and people. Corporate profits are up and global equity markets are looking forward to another…

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  • Africa

    European Union provided US$ 1.44 Million for mediation efforts in South Sudan

    The European Union (EU) using its African Peace Facility Early Response Mechanism (ERM) has agreed to provide financial support to the mediation process in South Sudan facilitated by IGAD. One of the main objectives of ERM is to provide funds in urgent situations for the first stages of mediation activities. According to a statement from the EU delegation office to…

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  • Africa

    Kenya’s resource challenge

    Rick van der Ploeg & Samuel Wills Kenya has been exporting energy for years – in the form of some of the world’s fastest long-distance runners. But Kenya will soon be exporting another, far more profitable kind of energy, as it taps into a string of recently discovered oil fields in its 450-mile-long section of the Great Rift Valley, a…

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  • Africa

    South Sudan in turmoil: Why it should make Ethiopia more nervous

    South Sudan has once again managed to keep the world on the edge of its seat. But Ethiopia has more reasons to be nervous  Tsedale Lemma The world’s newest country is in turmoil. It started on Dec. 15th 2013, when President Salva Kirr claimed to have foiled a coup attempt orchestrated by his former deputy Riek Machar, who was sacked…

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  • Africa

    Déjà vu in the Central African Republic as UN looks to intervene

    Evan Cinq-Mars In a December 1998 report to the United NationsSecurity Council, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan happily reflected on a crisis in Africa where the world body had done well. A UN peacekeeping operation had taken over from an African-led, French-supported force, and contributed to the stabilization of a dire political and security situation in the Central African Republic…

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  • New report calls on Ethiopia to reform repressive anti-terror law

    IPI and partners also call for immediate release of five imprisoned journalists (IPI) – Jan. 14 2014 – Ethiopia’s use of sweeping anti-terrorism law to imprison journalists and other legislative restrictions are hindering the development of free and independent media in Africa’s second largest country, according to a report published today by the International Press Institute (IPI). Dozens of journalists…

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