Two major developments in Somalia and Djibouti have attracted international media attention recently. John Kerry became the first US Secretary of State to visit Mogadishu, whilst China has negotiated the construction of a military base in the strategic port of Djibouti. These two “symbolic” and substantive developments represent both an opportunity and a challenge for
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Addis Ababa (AFP) – Ethiopia’s main opposition party on Friday condemned weekend elections, which saw the ruling party cruise back into office, as a “disgrace” and proof the country was a one-party state. According to preliminary results from last Sunday’s elections, the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn secured
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At least 20 people have been killed and more than 40 injured in small villages close to the Somalia and Ethiopian border, where forces from the Somali Regional State of Ethiopia and pastoralists have been fighting, an official has said. The governor of Galgadud region of Somalia, Hussein Ali Wehelie, has told local media outlets
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May 29, 2015 Addis Ababa Blue Party was clear before entering into 2015 Ethiopian General Election as there are no capable and independent institutions to handle free and fair election even at the minimal standard. It was also clear that the regime is not ready to hold a free and fair election. Our understanding on
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Africa’s most impressive economic managers suffer from excessive caution May 30th 2015 | ADDIS ABABA NOWHERE in Africa is modern China more of a lodestar than in Ethiopia, which on May 24th held an uneventful election with a predetermined outcome: another term in office for the long-standing ruling party. The continent’s second most populous country
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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Jaw and teeth fossils found on the silty clay surface of Ethiopia’s Afar region represent a previously unknown member of humankind’s family tree that lived 3.3 to 3.5 million years ago alongside the famous human ancestor “Lucy,” scientists say. The fossils shed new light on a key period in
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(STANDARD DIGITAL) – Kenya has deployed military troops along Sololo border following Tuesday’s invasion of Ethiopian government soldiers into three villages in Uran Ward within the county. The military arrived in Sololo District on Tuesday, hours after the Ethiopian soldiers had left after invading villages and have been patrolling the border since then. Uran Ward
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By Anita Powell May 28, 2015 ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — VOA -you a journalist?” the young man asks me as we board the elevator. In Ethiopia, this is a loaded question. It earned me an extra 45-minute wait at airport immigration as officials thumbed through my passport, pawed through my luggage and asked me what
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(CNN) – A top State Department official — Wendy Sherman — will depart following the completion of the Iran nuclear talks, a source confirms to CNN. Sherman, the under secretary for political affairs, is the fourth-ranking State Department official. (Freedom House) – “Under Secretary Sherman’s comments today were woefully ignorant and counter-productive,” said Daniel Calingaert,
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Paris (AFP) – In 1974, anthropologists in Ethiopia found the astonishing fossilised remains of a human-like creature who last walked the planet some 3.2 million years ago. Was “Lucy,” as the hominid was called, the direct ancestor of Homo sapiens? Was she “The Mother of Mankind,” as some headlines claimed? Over the years, the dramatic
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