Year: 2014

  • Africa

    Africa- a new era for partnerships with the south

    Carlos Lopes The economic weight of Southern actors at the global level over the last two decades has been unprecedented in speed and scale. Whilst growth levels of western economies plummeted following the 2008-2009 financial crisis, developing economies continued to grow at high rates, largely driven by a variety of factors, including sound industrial policies and investments in human, physical…

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    EU provides €50 million to support AU peacekeeping missing in Central African Republic

    EU and the African Union signed a new funding agreement to contribute €50 million from the African Peace Facility to the African Union-led operation in the Central African Republic, Mission Internationale de Soutien à la Centrafrique sous Conduite Africaine ( MISCA). The agreement was signed by Ambassador Smail Chergui, AU Commissioner for Peace and Security in Addis Ababa. A further…

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    UNESCO: 100 million young women unable to read a single sentence

     A serious gender imbalance in global education has left over 100 million young women in low and lower middle income countries unable to read a single sentence, and will prevent half of the 31 million girls out of school from ever enrolling. These are among the main findings of the Gender Summary, which analyses data from the latest edition of…

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    President Uhuru Kenyatta on state visit to Ethiopia

     Visit his first to an African state since he came to office in April  Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta is to begin a four-day State visit to Ethiopia as of this afternoon.  This will be President Kenyatta’s first state visit to an African country, and his second in general since he was sworn in to office in April 2013. His first…

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    AUC formed a Commission of Inquiry to look into rights abuses in South Sudan

    Mahlet Fasil The African Union Commission (AUC) established a Commission of Inquiry to investigate human rights violations and other abuses committed during the recent conflict in South Sudan. According to AUC Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma the Inquiry Committee will have five-members and is headed by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo. Chairperson Dlamini Zuma said the Commission was established based on…

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  • Africa

    Former President of Oromia regional State Alemayehu Atomsa dies

    Alemayehu Atomsa, former chairman of the Oromo Peoples’ Democratic Organization (OPDO), one of the four parties that make up the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), and president of the Oromia regional state, the largest regional state in the country, has died of his illness. According to reports, Alemayehu, who has resigned from his post on Feb. 17th, has…

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  • Seclusion of the intelligentsia behind the ‘Cult of Scientificism’

    It is high time that the intelligentsia renews the age-old spirit of public intellectual by recovering its connections with the social and political realities of the society, as our Columnist Taye Negussie (PhD) argues in this article Relegating its traditional role of standing for truth, justice, and freedom only to the social activists, today the intelligentsia has become oblivious on…

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  • 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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