By William Davison, Bloomberg Ethiopia’s credit rating was kept at a “highly speculative” B by Fitch Ratings, which expects the government to meet its fiscal deficit target of 2.9 percent of gross domestic product this year. Expansion in the fiscal year that ends July 7 will probably be in the nine to 10 percent range,
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DURBAN – Two Ethiopian nationals have been burnt by an angry mob in the township of Umlazi in Durban. It’s reported the pair sustained third degree burns when their shop was petrol-bombed on Friday night. There has been a spate of xenophobic attacks in Umlazi over the past week which some believe were sparked by
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan have picked two firms to carry out studies on the potential impact of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam on the flow of the Nile, an Egyptian official said. The leaders of the three countries signed a co-operation deal in Khartoum in March that paved the way for a
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By Mwaura Samora NAIROBI: The recent attack on Garissa University College, where more than 150 lives were cut short by Al-Shabaab bullets, has evoked anger among Kenyans. This and other bloody attacks in Mandera, Lamu and Nairobi have triggered numerous debates, drawing parallels between Kenya and Ethiopia in the war against terrorism. Despite Ethiopia
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By Jonathan Pitts, Baltimore Sun Like tens of thousands Orthodox Christians in Baltimore and more than 350 million worldwide, Pastrikos’ congregants will mark the end of their 40-day Great Lent — and the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter — with religious observances that last from midnight Saturday through Sunday morning, culminating in a massive
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By The Washington Post Rapidly growing numbers of black immigrants have reshaped the overall black population in the United States in recent decades, particularly in Washington and other cities with large U.S.-born African -American communities, a new report says. A record 3.8 million foreign-born blacks now live in the United States, the Pew Research Center
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By Christopher Soghoian There seems to be a new data breach in the news every week — a major company hacked, millions of usernames, passwords or credit card numbers stolen. There isn’t much that you, as an individual, can do to stop hackers from stealing the data you entrust to companies. However, there are some
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By William Davison (Bloomberg) — Ethiopian prosecutors have failed to present evidence relating to charges that a group of bloggers and journalists support terrorism, a defense lawyer at the latest court hearing said. Six members of the Zone 9 blogging group and three freelance journalists were charged in July at the Federal High Court in
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By JEFFREY GETTLEMA NAIROBI, Kenya — They have lost their leader, their ports, their checkpoints and their territory. They have lost thousands of men and much of their money. They have no fleet of armored personnel carriers like Boko Haram’s. Or poppy fields like the Taliban’s. Or oil fields like the Islamic State’s. In the
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Group J: Algeria, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Seychelles The 2012 co-hosts won a vote by the Confederation of African Football’s executive committee in Cairo on Wednesday ahead of Algeria and Ghana. It will be the second time as hosts for the country, which is located on the west coast of Africa, having previously shared duties with Equatorial
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