By Oscar Rickett Andargachew Tsege, known to his friends and family as Andy, is a British citizen who has been held in a secret prison in Ethiopia since June. The government of the East African country has used its stringent anti-terrorism laws, adapted from British and American ones, to charge Tsege with plotting a coup
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Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba ran the third world indoor record * of her career when she clocked 14:18:86 for 5000m at the XL-galan meeting in Stockholm, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting, on Thursday (19). Dibaba took more than five seconds off the previous mark of 14:24:37 set by her compatriot Meseret Defar on the same track
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Nigeria leads the list followed by the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Madagascar. Study ranks Kenyans among poorest in Africa By JOSEPH MURAYA NAIROBI, Kenya – A new report by the Institute for Security Studies has ranked Kenya sixth among 10 countries in Africa with the largest extremely poor population. The situation in
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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle ADDIS ABABA – Sudanese president, Omer Hassan al-Bashir, on Wednesday vowed to further strengthen bilateral ties, especially economic ties with neighbouring Ethiopia. Bashir made the remarks this morning while delivering solidarity message at the celebrations held at Ethiopia’s northern city of Mekele to mark the 40th anniversary of the Tigray People’s Liberation
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Mainstream rappers embrace the country’s dominant language while trying not to upset the government By James Jeffrey ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopian rapper DJ Same took out a smartphone and played a clip of a man proclaiming passionately in a traditional Amharic style called fukera, used during feudal militaristic times to rouse the populace to
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Medical Press In a remarkable new advance against the virus that causes AIDS, scientists from the Jupiter, Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have announced the creation of a novel drug candidate that is so potent and universally effective, it might work as part of an unconventional vaccine. The research, which involved scientists
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By Andrew Topf The Norwegian fertilizer firm Yara International (OTCMKTS:YARIY) has confirmed the potential to mine potash from the Danakil Depression in northeastern Ethiopia. An independent feasibility carried out on behalf of the firm identified annual production of 600,000 metric tons sulfate of potash (SOP) over 23 years from reserves (kainite, carnallite and sylvinite) at
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(ADDIS ABABA) – Sudanese President, Omer al-Bashir, on Tuesday arrived in the Ethiopia’s northern Tigray regional capital, Mekelle to attend the 40th anniversary of Tigray People’s Revolutionary Front (TPLF). Upon arrival at Mekelle’s Alula Aba-Nega Airport, al-Bashir was warmly welcomed by higher regional and federal government officials. The people in Tigray will on Wednesday mark
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Al Jazeera – The Stream: Ethiopia’s media war:
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By Megan Perry, Sustainable Food Trust s://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1y5fssKiTw A land grab twice the size of France is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the wholesale seizure of indigenous lands to turn them over to dams and plantations for sugar, palm oil, cotton and biofuels run by foreign corporations, destroying ancient cultures and turning Lake
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