Africa Archives - Page 249 of 310

April 2, 2015

Cooperative Unions receive prefabricated warehouses from WFP

Cooperative unions in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region have received five prefabricated warehouses from the United Nations World…

April 1, 2015

Ethiopian maid ‘accuses WHO official in Thailand of slavery’

(AFP) – Thai police said Wednesday they are investigating a senior Bangkok-based World Health Organization official and his wife after…

March 31, 2015

Prominent opposition figure Bekele Gerba freed from Ethiopian jail

Bekele Gerba was jailed for a year and three months more after he received parole Bekele Gerba who at…

March 30, 2015

COMESA to complement sub-regional peace initiatives

Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ambassador Berhane Gebre-Christos has called on COMESA Member States to complement the efforts…

March 27, 2015

Ignore Lencho Lata’s compromise idea at your own peril

Olaana Abbaaxiiqii I read Lencho Lata’s recent op-ed, “Electoral Absolutism in Ethiopia,” with great interest. Ethiopia is approaching a political…

March 27, 2015

COMESA to establish virtual university

The stage is set for the establishment of a COMESA Virtual University that will work with a network of universities…

March 27, 2015

COMESA Council of Ministers grants Kenya sugar safeguard

The Kenyan sugar sector has been given a one year extension of the existing safeguard subject to review and renewal…

March 27, 2015

COMESA member states urged to put more funds for infrastructure development

The Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia Dr. Debretsion GebreMichael has urged COMESA countries to allocate substantial funds to infrastructure development…

March 26, 2015