Month: May 2014
- Africa
Addis Abeba’s proposed Master Plan sparks nationwide university students’ protest
Kalkidan Yibeltal Protests against the new Addis Ababa and Oromia Integrated Development Master Plan proposed by the Addis Ababa City Administration sparked a nationwide deadly protest by university students inside several universities located in Oromia regional state, the country’s largest stat. Protests have gone dire as Oromo students who protested the new integrated master plan clashed with the police. According…
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Algeria’s dying dictatorship
Amel Boubekeur ALGIERS – Despite his failing health, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika won a fourth term last month, with 81% of the vote – or so the regime claimed. In fact, far from signaling growing political stability, the 77-year-old incumbent’s sham victory underscores just how few options Algerians have to effect change from within the system. Under Bouteflika’s leadership,…
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