How far is Kenya from Ethiopia? Chronicles of an exiled journalist

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: Demonstrater outside parliament. ‘Any Kenyan passing by does not automatically assume that this person is mad. For them, he is one citizen who is practising his right of dissent, picket and protest. Had it been in Ethiopia, this man could be writing his own death warrant.’ Sometime back in December last year,

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Ethiopian Airlines to launch flights to Los Angeles

The clock is ticking who will be the first to grab first trip to Los Angeles? Ethiopian Airlines will begin 3x weekly Boeing 787-8 flights between Addis Ababa and Los Angeles as of June 2015. The flight will operate westbound on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and eastbound on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.The flight will stop

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50 people killed in clashes between Somali clan and Ethiopian regime militias on border – Xinhua

MOGADISHU, 2015 (Xinhua) — At least 50 people were killed and scores of others injured in border clashes between Somali clan militia and Ethiopian government paramilitary unit since last week, the Somali authorities said on Monday. Somalia’s Galgadud region governor, Hussein Weheliye Cirfo, said most of the victims are civilians in the week-long fighting between

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The lesser known story of India’s role in Ethiopian land deals

India has become the biggest land investor in Ethiopia. There are concerns at the behaviour of Indian firms in the Gambela ecological hotspot. The global food price crises between 2008 and 2009 led countries that bore the brunt of the catastrophe to look elsewhere for agricultural land to mitigate the effects. In 2008 prices of

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Renaissance dam’s technical studies to be submitted Sunday, Minister

CAIRO: The two European consultancy firms, tasked with carrying out technical studies needed to determine the impact of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) are to submit their joint report Sunday, Minster of Irrigation Hossam Mogahzy said. The studies are focused on the GERD’s work period and schedule, techniques and impact of the expected decrease in

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