Sudan’s Bashir in Ethiopia to attend TPLF’s anniversary

(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

Al Jazeera – The Stream: Ethiopia’s media war:

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Ethiopia: Stealing the Omo Valley, destroying its ancient peoples

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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Egypt strikes IS group in Libya after video of mass killing

By MAGGIE MICHAEL CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian warplanes struck Islamic State targets in Libya on Monday, just hours after the extremist group released a grisly video showing the beheading of several Egyptian Coptic Christians it had held hostage for weeks. An armed forces spokesman announced the strikes on state radio, marking the first time Cairo

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Ethiopia to Use Somaliland’s Berbera Port

Ethiopia is to start using the Port of Berbera of Somaliland this month on an agreement reached between the two countries on January 29, 2015, while the use of Port Sudan has started by the importation of 50,000tn of fertilizer. Ethiopia is distributes its cargo among neighboring countries’ ports as the country needs alternative ports

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Video purports to show ISIS militants beheading 21 Egyptian Coptic Christian hostages

A video released on Sunday by militants in Libya claiming loyalty to the Islamic State terror group purports to show the mass beheading of Coptic Christian hostages. The video, which appeared on the Twitter feed of a website that supports Islamic State, appears to show militants dressed in blank marching captives to a beach. Before

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Ethiopian Intelligence Network: Who is behind the growth?

By New Delhi Times Bureau Ethiopia is a low income country with a population of just under 92 million people. The country has since 1991 been under one party rule of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). Dissidents who use the internet to criticise the one party rule have been accused of promoting terrorism

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Egypt: Time for turning to Russian arms?

By Ahmed Eleiba The warm reception Russian President Vladimir Putin received in Egypt, where he signed several agreements for joint cooperation, is symptomatic of the newfound friendship between Cairo and Moscow.   Presidents Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Putin discussed a wide range of regional security matters during their bilateral discussions. The talks, focused on the threat

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Egypt: Time for turning to Russian arms?

By Ahmed Eleiba The warm reception Russian President Vladimir Putin received in Egypt, where he signed several agreements for joint cooperation, is symptomatic of the newfound friendship between Cairo and Moscow.   Presidents Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Putin discussed a wide range of regional security matters during their bilateral discussions. The talks, focused on the threat

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