Month: March 2014
- Africa
Sacking Sanusi
ABUJA – It was only a matter of time before Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan moved against Lamido Sanusi, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, who has spent much of the last year waging an anti-corruption campaign against the government. But, while Sanusi has been suspended, his corruption allegations cannot be withdrawn – and the public outcry that they…
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A new TV network for Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group
Oromia Media Network (OMN), explained by its founders as “an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit news enterprise whose mission is to produce original, impartial, citizen-driven reporting,” was inaugurated on March 1st 2014. OMN is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the largest and most active Ethiopian origin ethnic Oromo Diaspora lives. “The goal of this network is to create multilingual news and…
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2013 Human Rights Reports: Ethiopia
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor 2013 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Report February 27, 2014 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Ethiopia is a federal republic. The ruling Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), a coalition of four ethnically based parties, controls the government. In September 2012, following the death of former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, parliament elected Hailemariam Desalegn as…
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Countering violent extremist messaging in the Greater Horn of Africa at the center of ACSS seminar in Addis Ababa
The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS), the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, and the government of Ethiopia opened a workshop on Countering Violent Extremist Messaging in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February 24, 2014. The seminar, which runs from February 23 to 28, is being held in collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Defense Threat…
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AU High-Level Implementation Panel suspends talks between Sudan and South Sudan
On March 1st, the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel on Sudan and South Sudan suspended negotiations between the Government of Sudan (GoS) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) on the conflict in the “Two Areas” of Blue Nile and South Kordofan. The adjournment was occasioned by a deadlock between the Parties over a proposal made by the Panel in…
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Arab prospects beyond the Arab Spring
Tarek Osman In December 2013, at a makeshift cultural center in downtown Cairo, a young Sudanese recited poems from The Papers of Room No. Eight, a collection written by the Egyptian poet Amal Donkol weeks before his death in 1983. He finished his recitation with the poignant “Do not dream of a happy world”; tears sparkled in the eyes of…
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The silent killer
Ashenafi Zedebub “Some people groups are particularly affected on the continent of Africa and in the populations of African Americans,” says one research paper, which has been distributed from investigators residing in the United States. Why “in particular Africa and African American populations”? According to the research conducted for almost three decades, nobody has so far given the precise answer…
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The wolf of wall street: Enlightening the American nursery?
Andrew DeCort It’s well known that when cancer reaches a certain stage, chemotherapy is no longer a viable option. In these severe cases, the “treatment” that is supposed to kill the cancer is so toxic that it ends up killing the sufferer. What is designed to be “care” instead hastens death and becomes careless if prescribed. One can’t help but…
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And the winner is…
The 86th Academy Award nominees and our movie reviews Our movie review columnist Andrew DeCort has written critical reviews about some of the movies and the actors that are now nominated for the 86th Academy Award that will take place later this month. Here are some of the movies and the actors along with excerpts from Andrew’s review: Capitan Philips…
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