Month: April 2014
- Africa
President Mulatu vows to support immunization
Mahlet Fasil President Dr. Mulatu Teshome of Ethiopia vowed to take a leading role in support of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) mission aimed at increasing access to immunization and saving children’s lives as he lunched the start of the latest immunization campaign in Ethiopia. “By investing in immunization we are protecting the futuresof our children across…
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Closing Africa’s agricultural gender gap
Melinda Gates SEATTLE – Africa’s GDP is now growing faster than any other continent’s. When many people think about the engines driving that growth, they imagine commodities like oil, gold, and cocoa, or maybe industries like banking and telecommunications. I think of a woman named Joyce Sandir. Joyce is a farmer who grows bananas, vegetables, and maize on a small…
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Exclusive interview with Amb. Tim Morris, UK Special Envoy for South Sudan
Following the sacking by South Sudan’s President of his former deputy Riek Machar for alleged coup attempt in December 2013, South Sudan had quickly slid down into what many fear would become a potentially protracted civil war that turned the nation’s two major ethnic groups, the Dinka and the Neur, where President Kiir and rebel leader Machar hail from respectively,…
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Ethiopia and Djibouti review joint defense activities
Ethiopia’s Minister of Defense, Siraj Fegesa, and his counterpart Hassan Darar Houffaneh, Djibouti’s Minister of Defense, met on Friday April 18 to carry out an evaluation of their six-months cooperation, based on the agreement signed in 2013 covering the exchange of military information, military training and joint activities in controlling activities of smugglers, terrorists and other ‘spoilers’, Ethiopia’s Ministry of…
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The curious case of Senator Ted Cruz
Tea Party Senator Ted Cruz is the presumptive favorite of powerful hard-line Republicans to run for the 2016 Presidential election. But there is a potentially messy problem for Senator Cruz: He wasn’t born in the United States. Tomas Mega With little prospect for Barack Obama accomplishing much in the last two years of his Presidency, attention is turning to probable…
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Trapped by a crippled telecom
A soaring number of option-deprived customers and eye-watering packages continue to swell the earnings of the state monopoly Ethio telecom. In return the inglorious institution kept on crippling everything this country has achieved in the past with banks being the hardest hit Kalkidan Yibeltal In February this year, while hosting his third presser with the local media since he assumed…
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The Sources of Russian Conduct
Richard N. Haass NEW YORK – No set amount of time must pass before journalism gives way to history, but normally historians write with the advantage of perspective that reflects the passage of years, decades, or even centuries. Time is necessary for information to come to light, memoirs to be written, and the significance of events to reveal itself. What…
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Dr. Tedros Adhanom attends the Commemoration of 20th anniversary of Rwandan Genocide
The Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide was held on Friday (April 11) in Addis Ababa with the theme: “Remember, Unite, and Renew”. The aim of the ceremony was a memorial to the nearly one million people who lost their lives in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and applaud the commendable efforts of the people of Rwanda in…
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A Proxy Campaign against Ethiopia?
International River Network (IRN): “GERD Panel of Experts Report: Big Questions Remain” Response by GERD National Panel of Experts For so many years now the IRN, International River Network, this self-appointed “guardian” of all rivers of the world, has been leaving no stone unturned in its effort to subvert Ethiopia’s efforts to develop its water resources and lift its vast…
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