By Michelle Nicholas UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States has proposed six rival commanders from South Sudan be the first people blacklisted by the United Nations Security Council for threatening the peace and stability of the world’s newest state. The council’s 15-member South Sudan sanctions committee operates by consensus, so if there are no
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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle ADDIS ABABA– The United Nations has honoured Ethiopia for its significant contributions to UN’s vast Peacekeeping operations, the Ethiopian ministry of foreign affairs said on Friday. At a ceremony held at UN headquarters in New York to mark International Day of UN Peacekeepers, the United Nations has awarded Ethiopia a medal in
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By UN News Release GENEVA (24 April 2015) – The Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, and the Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, today said the detention of the six so-called “Zone Nine” bloggers and three other journalists in Ethiopia over the past year
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The Dadaab camp is surrounded by desert in the north east of Kenya Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto has called on the United Nations to close the Dadaab refugee camp and relocate more than 500,000 Somalis. Dadaab, near the border with Somalia, is the largest refugee camp in Africa. On 2 April, Somali militants from
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AFP SANAA (AFP) – The UN refugee agency said Monday 21 bodies have been recovered after Yemen reported dozens of Ethiopian migrants drowning when their boat sank near the entrance to the Red Sea. The interior ministry in Sanaa said in a statement posted on its website Sunday that 70 migrants had died when their
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AFP- Value produced by the average worker in some African economies corresponds to just 2% of that generated by their equivalent in developed countries. In countries like Ethiopia, despite broader economic growth, most families are still stuck in poverty. (Photo Alex Gwidt/flickr). THE planet’s poorest nations like Ethiopia, Malawi and Angola have failed to cash
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Jan 21, 2014 After all attempts to solve the Egyptian-Ethiopian crisis over the Renaissance Dam at the negotiating tableended in failure after a third round of negotiations on Jan. 4, with Egypt withdrawing from the discussions and conferences being held in Khartoum, there is now…
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By Ethiopian Borders Affairs Committee January 14, 2014 H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-Moon United Nations Secretary General Open Letter to UN Sec.-Gen. Ban Ki-Moon By Ethiopian Borders Affairs Committee January 14, 2014 1st Avenue, 46th Street New York, NY…
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