Africa

World Economic Forum on Africa: Discussing Africa’s hard-hitting problems

Some of the most pressing challenges the continent Africa is facing today can’t be addressed separately

Alem C.

If there is anything left in the open following the 2007 – 2008 global financial crises, it is the glaring reality of just how vulnerably dependent most countries in Africa are on too few export commodities of too few sectors.  It is a grim picture of the continent worsened by African countries’ own inability to make the best of nature endowed continent, fluctuations in global commodity prices, and lack of demand depressed by the global financial crisis.

Africa

Ethiopian court upholds lengthy jail terms for blogger, senior opposition member

Tsedale Lemma

A court in Addis Ababa today dismissed the appeal by Eskindir Nega, blogger, and Andualem Arage, a senior opposition figure, and upheld its earlier decision of lengthy jail terms for both.