Year: 2015
- Africa
A provocative Tana Forum discussion: Challenging Africa’s towering figure
A shiver ran through the public attending the annual Meles Zenawi Lecture Series at the 4th Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa when Ali Mufuruki, the CEO of Infotech Investment Group LTD , disputed the towering symbolism of the prominent Pan-Africanism Kwame Nkrumah as an African hero. and questioned the idea spread by the founding fathers of the Organization…
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Can Africa reinvent secularism? Debate and public lecture kick off packed Tana weekend
A lecture hall, six vice-chancellors or presidents of universities, and a sensitive issue: « secularism and politicized faith ». That is what it takes for a refined debate with about 150 students and teachers of the Bahir Dar University. The 4th Tana High-Level Forum could not have had a better start, a day ahead of its official launch on Saturday…
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The lords of power, the gurus of politics
The Ten Commandments of the Bible as a constitution. This is what the Lord’s Liberation Army (LRA), led since 1987 by Joseph Kony, wants in Uganda. Brandishing the Holy Bible, the LRA has committed the worst atrocities on civilians in almost three decades of armed fighting killing, torturing, and mutilating millions, if not thousands, along the way. In recent years,…
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The Fourth Tana Forum on Security in Africa begins; record number of heads of state expected to attend
The fourth Tana Forum on Security in Africa has started yesterday with African Vice-Chancellors debate and public lecture on the 2015 theme, “Secularism and Politicized Faith,” in Bahir Dar, the capital of the Amhara regional state, 578 kms North of Addis Abeba. The lecture was organized by the Institute for Peace and Security (IPSS), the organizers of the Forum in…
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Exclusive: “We need secularism in Africa and it has to be defended”
Michelle Ndiaye Ntab is the program director for African Peace and Security Programs (APSP), a joint program of the Addis Ababa University and the Institute for Peace and Security (IPSS), with the support from GIZ. Before joining IPSS, she was the Managing Director of the Mandela Institute for Development Studies (MINDS). Between 1999 and 2011, she consecutively headed several African…
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Ethiopia says plans for textile export to generate US$1 billion annually in GTP II
In the second phase of the growth and transformation plan (GTP II), the textile and garment industry is planned to generate 1 Billion USD in export says the national Textile Industry Development Institute (TIDI). The current GTP, to expire on June of this year, saw textile as a leading priority in the Industrial Development Strategy. However, the sector’s performance has…
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Forty Ethiopians arrested in Nairobi for being in Kenya illegally
More than 40 Ethiopians were arrested on Tuesday April 14th from two separate houses in Kiamaiko and Eastleigh area, Nairobi for being in the country illegally. Police said the men did not have travel documents and they were headed for South Africa when they were nabbed. Twenty four of them were arrested in Eastleigh and 16 in Kiamaiko. Starehe OCPD…
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IOM begins evacuation flights from Yemen; Ethiopians among evacuees
On Sunday 12th April, IOM organized its first charter flight to evacuate 141 third country nationals (TCNs) from Sana’a, Yemen. “The operation was a success and paves the way for continuing the evacuations of more than 16,000 third country nationals who are stranded in Yemen”, IOM said, adding it has received requests from 38 countries to evacuate their nationals out…
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Sweden shares experience in road safety to Ethiopia
The National Road Transport Safety Council (NRTSC) of Ethiopia in collaboration with the Swedish Embassy in Addis Abeba has organized a full day workshop today aimed at finding ways of improving road safety in Ethiopia. Discussions on the issues of traffic wellbeing were carried out among various stakeholders gathered at the workshop held at Ghion Hotel. Ethiopia’s record in…
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Does Putin want to derail the Iranian nuclear negotiations?
Mark N. Katz, Special to Addis Standard Putin’s lifting of the Russian ban on transferring S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran raises important questions about Moscow’s expectations and even motivations concerning the achievement of a nuclear accord between Tehran and the P5 +1 (America, Britain, China, France, Germany, and Russia). In 2007, Moscow and Tehran signed a…
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