Month: February 2015

  • Travel

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  • Africa

    Breaking – Sufian Ahmed eliminated from the race for AfDB presidency

    Sufian Ahmed, Ethiopia’s Finance Minister, lost his candidacy at the ongoing Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) at the Election for the Office of President of the Bank. Sufian was the second cadidate to be eliminated from  eight contenders running for the office. Samura M. W. Kamara of  Sierra Leone was eliminated…

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  • Africa

    UNDP associate administrator to make first visit to Ethiopia

    UNDP Associate Administrator, Gina Casar, will visit Ethiopia from February 21- 25, 2015. This is Ms. Casar’s first visit to Ethiopia since she was appointed UN Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of UNDP in June 2014, the UNDP Ethiopia office said in a statement. According to the statement, Ms. Casar is expected to meet with a number of senior government officials…

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  • Letters

    #JusticeForHanna Dear Editor, I would like to point out some significant inconsistencies in your magazine. Your editorial (#JusticeForHanna, Dec. 2014) asks Ethiopians to “wakeup” against the injustices towards women in society. The article is certainly geared more towards gender based violence than inequality between the two genders.   However there is a larger theme speaking about the need for equality.…

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  • Africa

    Car accident, fire kills twelve in west Addis Abeba

    A fire that broke out following a deadly car accident involving the Chinese made Sinotruk and a minivan full of passengers has claimed the lives of twelve people and left two critically wounded, according to a report on Fana Broadcasting Corporate S.C (FBC).   The accident happened yesterday at about 7:20 pm local time in Burayu town, Woreda two at…

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  • ‘Old habits die hard’

    Taye Negussie (PhD)   Very few would doubt that the period between the late 1980’s and early 1990s was indeed one of the most remarkable periods in recent history of world political economy as it set the demise of the Eastern communist camp, thereby heralding presumably the end of the notorious Cold War.   The ensuing ideological mood in the…

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  • Can Yemen be saved?

    By Barak Barfi Sana’a – Yemen is no stranger to crisis. Exposed to a regional proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, plagued by an entrenched Al Qaeda affiliate, and divided by tribal disputes and a secession movement, the country has become a poster child for everything that can go wrong in the Arab world. Yemen has demonstrated remarkable resiliency…

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  • Commentary

    Yemen: The war of all against all?

    Yemen is notoriously unpredictable; but the only thing that is certain is that its internal conflicts are not likely to end any time soon Mark N. Katz,  Special to Addis Standard   The 17th Century English political philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, posited that the primordial “state of nature” without government is characterized by bellum omnium contra omnes, or the “war of…

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  • Ethiopia’s Policy towards the AU: Time to look beyond unique contributions & special responsibilities

    Dr. Mehari Taddele Maru & Abel Abate   Ethiopia has a well articulated foreign and security policy called the Foreign Affairs and National Security Policy and Strategy (FANSPS). Its substantive anchor on development and stability as well as geographic focus on the Horn of Africa and Egypt reflects divergence from previous regime’s assessment of the state of affairs of Ethiopia…

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  • Africa

    Physical, sexual and emotional violence against children in Africa unacceptably high

    A new report from the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) reveals that Africa’s children are still subjected to unacceptably high levels of physical, sexual and emotional violence across all levels of society. The African Report on Violence against Children launched yesterday at the United Nations in New York in collaboration with the African Union and the Office of the Special…

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