Year: 2015
- Africa
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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U.S. Congressional Delegation visits Ethiopia, looks at impact of American-Ethiopian development
Earlier this week, an eight member congressional delegation visited Ethiopia. The delegation consisted of Senators Chris Coons, Jeff Merkley and Al Franken and Representatives David Cicilline, Joseph P. Kennedy, Betty McCollum, Terri A. Sewell and Kay Granger. While in Ethiopia the Members visited U.S. development assistance project partner sites, held a roundtable discussion with Ethiopian Civil Society members and…
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The coming (and going) of no messiah
A careful look at President Obama’s visit to Ethiopia will reveal that plenty of unlikely circumstances will render his purpose to visit to a near irrelevance, except for one only KalkidanYibeltal The drizzly afternoon on June 26, 2015 saw Addis Abeba’s Bole International Airport playing host to a hitherto unacquainted guest – Air Force One – the flying White…
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Charleston and the war that never ends
Though it ended 150 years ago, the bitterness caused by the American Civil War continues to reverberate; why has so little changed when so much has changed?,our U.S. correspondentTomas Mega asks On the evening of June 17th, twenty-one year old Dylan Roof walked into the historic Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, South Carolina and murdered six black women…
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Why resist the Addis Abeba Master Plan? – A constitutional legal exploration
Tsegaye R. Ararssa, Special to Addis Standard (@RArarssa) When,in mid April 2014, the government in Ethiopia announced its readiness to implement what it called the “Addis Abeba Integrated Regional Development Plan” (the “Master Plan” for short), which proposes to annex most of the city’s surrounding areas belonging to the National Regional State of Oromia, it provoked an immediate reaction…
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A new approach to Eurozone sovereign debt
Yanis Varoufakis Athens – Greece’s public debt has been put back on Europe’s agenda. Indeed, this was perhaps the Greek government’s main achievement during its agonizing five-month standoff with its creditors. After years of “extend and pretend,” today almost everyone agrees that debt restructuring is essential. Most important, this is true not just for Greece. In February, I presented to…
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Opinion – The meek flyby: Silences and reactions
Tarikua Getachew (@tarikawipeace) Obama and My Mother I hesitated between hundred ways to begin this piece. I wanted to write the Kenyans have treated President Obama like their runners do our runners on track: they wear us out but we still win. But then I figured nah… the Kenyans, more brothers to us than to Americans, can’t be responsible…
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Drought in Ethiopia affecting millions, worsens food insecurity as government appeals for emergency food assistance
The less than usual drops of rain in the past several rainy seasons have caused drought in many parts of the country, particularly in Eastern and Southern Ethiopia, triggering severe food insecurity in communities already on constant food distribution list by donors. Estimated numbers of people affected by the current drought and are in need on emergency food assistance has…
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