Year: 2015
- Africa
African CSOs call for leaders to quickly act on UNECA’s Illicit Financial Flows new report
As African leaders are meeting in Addis Ababa to discuss growing threats from extremist groups, instability, and poverty, Heads of State are urged to give priority to a growing threat to their economies: illicit financial flows. Tomorrow, AU Heads of State will review a report produced by the AU High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows, which has been chaired…
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The bookies and the British election
By Chris Patten London – I used to be considered a pretty good forecaster of British and other countries’ elections. I was, after all, once a party chairman. I can now confess my method. It was not based on any novel political insight. I did not have a magic algorithm relating economic factors to voting intentions – though I do…
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AU Summit to be held at a turning point
The 24th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union, to be held on January 30-31 arrives at a turning point as it coincides with the ending of the Millennium Development Goals and the onset of Agenda 2063, said Deputy Chair Person of the AUC, Erastus Mwencha. The Deputy Chairperson said elements of…
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Can Ethiopia’s resource wealth contribute to its Growth and Transformation?
Photo: The World Bank Group Women artisanal miner in Ethiopia´s Benishangul-Gumaz Región. • Ethiopia’s resource wealth can be a key driver of the country’s growth • A recent study of the mineral industry developed by the World Bank Group (WBG) and other development partners offers recommendations to help the country develop its unrealized geological potential • The WBG is…
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Tendering for Ethiopian rail project postponed
The bidding process for a tender to construct a 280km railway from Semera east to the Djibouti port of Tadjourah on the north bank of the Gulf of Tadjourah has been postponed for a fifth time. Getachew Betru, CEO of Ethiopian Railways Corporation (ERC), says the tender was postponed because bidders had requested more time to prepare their technical and…
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ECA Chief repeats call for debt cancellation to help Ebola-affected countries
In a statement delivered at the opening of the 26th Ordinary Session of the African Union Executive Council on Monday Jan. 26th, Carlos Lopes, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, (UNECA), called upon the International Financial Institutions to cancel external debts owed by Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The three countries have endured dramatic suffering as a…
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Civil society coalition warns the AU to ‘take action now on Burundi or risk regional destabilization”
The AU We Want Coalition, a group of civil society organization, warned the African Union (AU) that “the situation in Burundi is spiraling out of control, with hundreds of civilians killed or disappeared, due to the ongoing political impasse over moves by President Pierre Nkurunziza to run for a third term in June.” The group said what is happening in…
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Meklit Hadero – Celebrating the newness of life and the hyphens that bring us together
Born in Ethiopia Meklit Hadero was raised in the US. She holds a BA in Political Science from Yale University but she is globally known as a singer/song writer. Meklit has released five studio albums, tours regularly and is currently signed to Six Degrees Records. She is a TED Senior Fellow and has served as an artist-in-residence at NYU, where…
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Human Rights Day in Ethiopia: Make it count, please
The ever hopeful UN kept on observing, every 10th of December, what it calls “Human Rights Day.” Last December, the day was commemorated around the world (almost) with one motto: Human Rights 365. This year will mark half a century since the world agreed to give effect to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Convention on the…
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Ethiopia charges ten for attacks against members of Defense Forces
Charges were brought against 10 suspected members of the so called Benishangul People’s Liberation Movement (BPLM), a terrorist group, for carrying out armed guerilla attacks on members of the Ethiopian Defense Forces, passengers and different members of the public. The suspects, Abdulwahab Mehadi(in absentia), Abdurahman Nasir (in absentia), Surafel Jimma, Yasir Dubale, Imam Abdurazak et.al. according to the public…
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