01 April 2014 Al-Monitor Author Ayah Aman CAIRO — Egypt is continuing to develop relations with South Sudan in an effort to protect Egyptian water interests within its borders, through which the White Nile flows. This comes at a time when the dispute between…
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01 Apr 2014 By Collins Okinyo Mariano Barreto has been appointed as the new Ethiopian coach with immediate effect. The Ethiopian Football Federation (EFF) announced on Tuesday that the Portuguese will take over from Sewnet Bishaw who was sacked in…
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Apirl 1, 2014 Agence France-Presse The head of the EU’s huge aid programme to Africa warned on Tuesday that tying investment on the continent to democratic reforms risked backfiring if viewed as neo-colonialism. “I would always warn against linking the…
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April 1, 2014 BBC Uhuru Kenyatta maintains that the ICC has no case against him Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been postponed to October. The delay was intended to give the the government…
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The Christian Science Monitor By Alex Dick-Godfrey April 1, 2014 A version of this post appeared on Africa in Transition. The views expressed are the author’s own. In a recent article on the Daily Maverick, Simon Allison identifies the “surprisingly perceptive” core message of Al…
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31 March 2014 Football411 Former Ethiopia coach Sewnet Bishaw has launched a scathing attack on FIFA, claiming world football’s governing body conspired to see them miss out on a place at the 2014 World Cup. The Walia Antelopes failed to…
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March 31, 2014 By:APA A UK-based company, GlaxoSmithKline, has trained 3,000 Ethiopians on extension services ahead of its planned investment in Ethiopia’s health sector, sources said Monday.The company’s vice president and East Africa regional director Dr. Allan Pamba, said the…
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Monday, March 31, 2014 Turkish Press CAIRO – Egyptian authorities have drawn up a committee to issue recommendations with the aim of allowing international arbitration over Ethiopia’s multibillion-dollar hydroelectric dam project currently being built on the Nile’s upper reaches, Egypt’s…
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31 March 2014 BBC The attackers targeted a busy bus stop and a food kiosk in Eastleigh Six people have been killed in explosions in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, officials say. Several people were wounded in the attack, which took…
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United Nations World Food Programme (Rome) Juba, 31 March 2014 — Alarmed at the impact of ongoing violence in South Sudan, the heads of the World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Refugee agency (UNHCR) arrived here today on a…
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