Year: 2015
- Africa
FFD3: The Addis Abeba Action Agenda: Fit for purpose?
By Sabine Terlecki Over the last three days global civil society have been meeting ahead of the third Financing for Development conference in Addis Abeba- discussing the latest draft outcome of the Addis Abeba Action Agenda, or short “Addis Accord”. Today, Monday 13 July, this crucial international conference has been kicked off by UN secretary general, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon. However, this…
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FFD3: Last chance to avert failure for the financing of development
Failure may be imminent at the negotiations for a “Financing for Development” (FFD) accord in Addis Ababa this week, said ActionAid. According to the organization, the G77 are being aggressively pushed by the US, Canada and the EU, among others, to sign a deeply unjust version of an agreement that would reinforce rather than address inequalities between rich and poor.…
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FFD3: Africa’s opportunity in Addis
By Macky Sall DAKAR – This week, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia’s capital and a city full of symbolic importance for all of Africa, will host the Third International Conference on Financing for Development. Most developing countries hold high expectations for the conference. They hope it will offer new means to improve social welfare at a time when financing their development needs…
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Reeyot Alemu is free at last
Reeyot Alemu became one of the three journalists and two bloggers as well as six Oromo university students to have walked free from an Ethiopian prison between yesterday and today. Reeyot Alemu, a teacher by training and profession until 2000, was a regular columnist at different newspapers including Feteh, a weekly Amharic critical of the ruling EPRDF which…
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Update: despite claims Oromo student protestors still in jail
The news item published on Addis Standard on July 9th saying “At least six Oromo university students were also among three journalists and two bloggers released from Ethiopian prison yesterday, according to various reports,” was incorrect as five of the six students mentioned in the story are still in Qilinto, a prison in the outskirts of the city Addis Abeba. …
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BREAKING – Ethiopia drops charges against three journalists, two bloggers
By Mahlet Fasil After a year and three months since they were first detained by the police, charges were dropped this afternoon against Journalists Tesfalem Wadyes Asmamaw Hailegiorgis and Edom Kassaye as well as Zelalem Kibret and Mahlet Fantahun, members of the blog Zone9. FBC, a pro government media outlet reported that charges were dropped only against five…
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Court passes guilty verdict on Ethiopian Muslim arbitration committee members et.al
The Ethiopian federal high court fourth criminal bench yesterday passed a guilty verdict on eighteen people: four prominent leaders of the Ethiopian Muslim arbitration committee members, a journalist and thirteen others on counts including attempted terrorism, conspiracy , and incitement. Ethiopian Muslims were protesting since 2011 against what many of them say were uncalled for interference by the government…
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Out-of-school numbers rise as aid to education falls short of 2010 lev
A new study shows that the number of children and adolescents who are out of school is on the rise, and grew to 124 million in 2013. Released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Education for All Global Monitoring Report (EFA GMR), it shows that international aid to education remains below 2010 levels and is grossly insufficient to…
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Hillary hysteria at FOX News
Despite frequent revelations about Mrs. Clinton’s problematic ways of doing things, and in the face of daily doses of Hillary hammering on FOX News, she remains popular, reports our U.S. correspondent Tomas Mega You cannot argue with facts. They are attractive, leggy, purposely toss their abundant manes of blonde hair and are consecrated with surplus attributes of the female physique.…
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Why Afaan Oromo should be the other federal working language in Ethiopia
The top twenty three reasons Milkessa Midega In March 2015 Dr. Birhanemeskel Abebe, a renowned Ethiopian academician, came up with “Top Ten Reasons why Afaan Oromo should be the federal working language”. His observation reminded me of my own M.A. thesis defended in 2003 Ethiopian Academic Year at Addis Ababa University (AAU). The title of my thesis was…
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