With headlines like, “Ethiopia is hot, Nigeria is not, for investors,” one can have a tendency to get caught up in the excitement and get involved in something that may or may not be in one’s best interest. Yes, Ethiopia has recently received a great deal of foreign direct investment from China, and the IMF
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Transforming institutions Ethiopia’s higher-education boom built on shoddy foundations The country desperately needs new universities to drive development, but most of the 30 built in the last 15 years fall woefully short By George West Ethiopia’s higher education infrastructure has mushroomed in the last 15 years. But the institutions suffer from curricula being abandonded due
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Transforming institutions Ethiopia’s higher-education boom built on shoddy foundations The country desperately needs new universities to drive development, but most of the 30 built in the last 15 years fall woefully short By George West Ethiopia’s higher education infrastructure has mushroomed in the last 15 years. But the institutions suffer from curricula being abandonded due
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UN raises concerns that secret deals are being brokered with ‘Africa’s North Korea’ in an effort to stop migrants coming to Europe Eritrean migrants, pictured in Calais, are the second largest African group fleeing to Europe. UN officials and human rights organisations are increasingly concerned at what they believe are secret deals being drawn up
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By Wired.Com In Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch works to free bloggers who were arrested on politically motivated charges. Throughout India and Brazil, the nonprofit Medicines for Malaria Venture fights a disease that still kills 500,000 people per year. Far to the north, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute gathers international policymakers and researchers to unknot
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AFP – Andargachew Tsege, 60, the leader of the outlawed Ginbot 7 group and who was granted political asylum in Britain, was convicted in absentia in 2009 for terrorism, and was imprisoned a year ago after being controversially extradited from Yemen. “Death sentences are very rarely carried out by the court in Ethiopia. His sentence
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By JONATHAN OWEN Fears are growing for the state of mind of a British father of three who has languished in a secret jail in Ethiopia for almost a year. Andargachew “Andy” Tsege, who has been sentenced to death, reportedly told the British ambassador during a rare visit: “Seriously, I am happy to go –
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By JONATHAN OWEN Fears are growing for the state of mind of a British father of three who has languished in a secret jail in Ethiopia for almost a year. Andargachew “Andy” Tsege, who has been sentenced to death, reportedly told the British ambassador during a rare visit: “Seriously, I am happy to go –
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Djibouti hosts the largest American permanent military base in Africa Djibouti, a small country on the Red Sea, is already home to military bases from the US and France, the former colonial power, but China’s interest is now becoming increasingly apparent. What makes this horn of Africa nation attractive to global military powers? Port in
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By Adam Taylor On Monday, the United Nations released the results of a year-long investigation into human rights in Eritrea. What it found was horrific. Detailing “systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations,” the U.N. commission of inquiry argued that Eritrea was operating a totalitarian government with no accountability and no rule of law. “The
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