Month: September 2015
- U.S
The Donald
No presidential candidate in modern American history has been able to voice what Mr. Trump has and still be alive as a candidate; he has managed to defy the conventional wisdom of politics and political correctness by attacking it ferociously, and yet his popularity shows no sign of slowing down Tomas Mega, Les Vegas, Nevada Donald Trump is a political…
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Ethiopia’s experiment with federalism: Why it’s not South Africa’s Apartheid? (Part I)
Tsegaye R. Ararssa, Special to Addis Standard What is the story of Ethiopia’s experiment with federalism? What stories does it tell? And what stories can be told about it? Feeding from and into the ever polarized and polarizing ‘debate’ on Ethiopia’s politics, a few academicians are arguing that the Ethiopian federal arrangement is synonymous with apartheid South Africa’s ‘racial federation’.…
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U.S. businesses visit Ethiopia as part of largest-ever U.S.-led trade mission to Africa
The U.S. Embassy to Addis Abeba, through its Foreign Commercial Service office, welcomed Ten U.S. Companies to Ethiopia this week as part of the largest U.S. government-led trade mission to Africa in history. The companies went through a day of meetings with Ethiopian government officials and area businesses, in an effort to facilitate new U.S.-Africa business deals. The Ethiopia visit…
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African Dams linked to over one million Malaria cases annually
New study urges future dam projects to consider better disease control measures Over one million people in sub-Saharan Africa will contract malaria this year because they live near a large dam, according to a new study which, for the first time, has correlated the location of large dams with the incidence of malariaand quantified impacts across the region. The study…
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Germany hosts first German-African business summit
On the margins of the first German-African Business Summit, the German Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier met on September 8 with leaders of four African Regional Organizations; Southern African Development Community (SADC), African Union (AU), East African Community (EAC) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). They discussed German cooperation with regional organization in African, peace and security as…
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The price of European indifference
Bernard-Henri Lévy Baghdad – Europe’s migration debate has taken a disturbing turn. It began with the creation of the catch-all concept (a legal freak) of a “migrant,” which obscures the difference, central to the law, between economic and political migration, between people escaping poverty and those driven from their homes by war. Unlike economic migrants, those fleeing oppression, terror, and…
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U.S. Embassy sponsors Ethiopia premiere of the Film “Lamb”
Lamb is the first Ethiopian film to be screened as an “Official Selection” at the Cannes Film Festival The U.S. Embassy in Addis AbebA said it was proud to sponsor the premiere in Ethiopia of “Lamb,” the first Ethiopian film ever to be screened as an “Official Selection” at the Cannes Film Festival. Lamb is a new film by…
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Hiwot Emishaw: challenging Ethiopia’s err on the color dark
A young, upcoming author tackles Ethiopia’s old, foreboding myth on the skin color dark Mahlet Fasil The title story in Hiwot Emishaw’s enjoyable first collection of essays and short stories, Baricho, muses on a subject that is far less common in discussions amongst Ethiopians than it is in actuality: the power of skin color tones over our sociological…
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Zambia police find 100 Ethiopians hidden in truck
Police in Serenje have intercepted a truck carrying 100 prohibited immigrants of Ethiopian origin, who were hidden behind bags of dry lake sardines locally known as kapenta. The truck, which was seized at Kanona police check point on Great North Road in Central Province, was, from Nakonde to an unknown destination within Zambia. Police suspect the Ethiopians…
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