Month: January 2016

  • Africa

    #OromoProtests: the US remains vigilant, requests “transparent and shared” investigation

    Kalkidan Yibeltal   Gayle E. Smith, Chief Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said the US continued to be vigilant over the recent protest and subsequent violent crackdown in Oromiya regional state, the largest of Ethiopia’s nine states.   Speaking at a press briefing in the sidelines of the 26th AU heads of state summit this…

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  • Africa

    Breaking: At least seven people die in Gambella prison attack

    At least seven people were killed yesterday in Gambella town, south of Ethiopia, during an attempted prison break. Eye witnesses told Addis Standard that a fierce clash between the Nuer and Anywaa ethnic groups also left scores wounded when hundreds of Nuers attacked a prison called Gambella regional state correctional facility and located in an area locally known as “4…

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  • Africa

    Inequality leading cause of conflict in Africa – ECA Chief

    The Economic Commission for Africa’s Executive Secretary, Carlos Lopes has called on Africa’s leaders to tackle economic, social and political inequality, which he stressed, is a leading cause of conflict in Africa. In his address to the 28th Ordinary Session of the AU Executive Council this week, Mr. Lopes said that “huge differences in the distribution and exercise of political…

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  • Op-Ed – Land: the perpetual flashpoint of Ethiopia’s political crisis

    #OromoProtests Special coverage   Endalk Chala   It is important to situate the recent Oromo students’ protest within the historical context of students’ dissent in Ethiopia. The wave of protest that swept through Oromiya, Ethiopia’s biggest and populous regional state, bears a striking resemblance to the 1960s Ethiopian students’ protest, which culminated into the 1974 revolution that brought down Africa’s…

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  • Africa

    Exclusive: An optimist until proven wrong

    Ambassador Greg Dorey has just finished a four year term as the UK’s Ambassador to Ethiopia and Djibouti, his second ambassadorial posting after Hungary. While in Ethiopia Ambassador Dorey was also his country’s envoy to the African Union (AU) and to the United Nation Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). A few days before his departure to the UK, Ambassador Dorey…

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  • Opinion: Oromo protests: getting the messages right

    #OromoProtests Special coverage   J. Bonsa, PhD The most commonly held rallying cry of the ongoing Oromo protestin Ethiopia is “Say No to the Master Plan!” There is a consensus among the protesters and the general public that the “Master Plan”, named by some campaigners as the “Master Killer”, has just served as a focal point that ignited the widespread…

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  • Opinion: Oromo Protests: Marking the next Ethiopian political chapter

    #OromoProtests Special coverage   Henok Gabisa,   The current situation in Oromiya and wider Ethiopia is blusterous. In the words of an anonymous commentator on the ground, “Oromiya is a war zone; we are under effective military control.” From this characterization, I gather that the government security forces’ merciless firing of live ammunition at peaceful protestors has turned the situation…

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  • Africa

    Schulze Global Investments acquires a 45% stake in Family Milk

    Schulze Global Investments Limited (“Schulze Global”), a leading frontier market private investment firm, has completed the acquisition of a 45% stake in MB PLC (“Family Milk”), a leading dairy processor in Ethiopia. Speaking at the announcement ceremony, Greg Metro, the Managing Director of Schulze Global Ethiopia, said that the company was exited to partner with Family Milk and build the…

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  • Africa

    UN experts urge Ethiopia to halt violent crackdown, ensure accountability for abuses

    A group of United Nations human rights experts yesterday called on the Ethiopian authorities to end the ongoing crackdown on peaceful protests by the country’s security forces, who have reportedly killed more than 140 demonstrators and arrested scores more in the past nine weeks. A press statement released by the UN Human Right office of the high commission quoted the…

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  • Africa

    Ethiopia jails sixteen Muslims to seven years

      Mahlet Fasil On January 19th an Ethiopian federal high court 14th criminal bench sentenced 16 Ethiopian Muslims to seven years each. Prosecutors allege that all the 16 defendants were involved in terrorist activities in the capital Addis Abeba and Wolqite, some 171 km west of the of Addis Abeba. Defendants include 1st defendant Elias Kedir, 2nd and 3rd defendants…

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