Year: 2015

  • Africa

    Debate on African secularism and faith-branded security threats to take centre stage at Tana

    Panels of African heads of state, eminent African personalities, academics, and policy makers are expected to debate African secularism and faith-branded security threats when the 4th Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa takes place on the 18th and 19th April 2015 in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, the capital of the Amhara regional state, 578 kms North of Addis Abeba.  …

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  • Africa

    Africa’s first water fund to combat rising threats to food security, water and energy supplies

    US$21.5m in long-term benefits for Kenyan citizens, farmers and businesses Nairobi – The Kenya government, businesses, conservation groups and utilities launched Africa’s first Water Fund today. The Fund is designed to provide a sustained water supply to a system that delivers water to over 9.3 million people and to generate US$21.5 million in long term benefits to Kenyan citizens including…

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  • Africa

    Court sentenced Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot to nineteen years & six months in prison

    The Ethiopian Federal High court 20th criminal bench sentenced  Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot Hailemedhin Abera to nineteen years & six months in prison. On March 17th the court passed a guilty verdict in one of the two charges against the former Ethiopian Airline Co-Pilot .   Co-Pilot Hailemedhin Abera was found guilty of hijacking and forcing to land in Geneva an…

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  • Governing the streets of Addis: Not by the law of the jungle

    Editorial   Tuesday May 10, 2011was the day when Diriba Kuma, Ethiopia’s then minister of transport, told the public that Ethiopia had prepared a ten-year “national traffic safety strategic action plan,” for the years from 2012 – 2022. His announcement didn’t come out of the blue. In March 2010, the UN general assembly had recognized and discussed a topic long…

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  • Youth & politics in post-revolution Ethiopia

    Eyob Aselefech Balcha, Special to Addis Standard   Nearly half a century had passed since the Ethiopian Students’ Movement (ESM) rocked the country with the most critical questions of the time: “the Land Question” and “the National Question”. It also levelled the ground for thousands of young people of that generation to get involved in the national politics, pre and…

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  • World News

    On the biggest challenge facing our civilization

    Sir David King was appointed by the British Foreign Secretary as his new permanent Special Representative for Climate Change in September 2013. Sir David was previously the Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor from 2000 – 2007, during which time he raised awareness of the need for governments to act on climate change and was instrumental in creating the Energy Technologies Institute.…

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  • Isolating Israel

      Daoud Kuttab Ramallah – Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu certainly has reason to celebrate. He surprised nearly everyone by securing a decisive electoral victory, winning a third consecutive term in office after his right-wing Likud party gained a five-seat advantage in the Knesset over its main rival, the center-left Zionist Union. But the celebration is likely to be short.…

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  • Africa

    Yemen police detain fifty nine Ethiopian migrants

    Security forces in Taiz governorate detained 59 Ethiopian nationals attempting to enter Yemen illegally on Monday March 16, days after another 53 were captured in Mocha district. The migrants were found in areas between the districts of Mocha and Dubab, according to Anees Al-Shamiri, the manager of the security office in Mocha district. He said the group, 27 of whom…

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  • Russian policy toward Ukraine: The view from Berlin

      Mark N. Katz, Special to Addis Standard   I visited Berlin March 10-14, 2015 to talk with people there about Russian policy toward Ukraine and related issues. I was able to speak with several highly knowledgeable German government officials and scholars about this subject. I will not cite the views of specific individuals here, but will give a general…

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  • Russian policy toward Ukraine: The view from Paris

    Mark N. Katz,  Special to Addis Standard   I visited Paris March 4-10, 2015, to talk with people there about Russian policy toward Ukraine and related issues. I was able to speak with highly knowledgeable French government officials, scholars, and journalists about this subject. I will not cite the views of specific individuals here, but will give a general sense…

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