02/13/14 ABDI GULED MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – A car bomb exploded close to a convoy of United Nations vehicles near Mogadishu’s international airport on Thursday, killing six Somalis on the street, officials said. Al-Qaida-linked militants claimed responsibility. A U.N. vehicle…
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FEBRUARY 13, 2014 By Meg Lowman “The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The next best time is now.” — African proverb I’m swallowing mouthfuls of dust each day driving long distances through a landscape parched by…
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JERUSALEM,Feb. 13 (Xinhua) — Israel Chemicals (ICL), the world’s sixth largest potash producer, announced Thursday it will partner with Allana Potash of Canada to develop a potash mine in Ethiopia. The so-called Danakhil potash project is located in the Dallol…
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By Collins Okinyo Ethiopia’s long serving captain Degu Debebe has called it quits from International football just days after the head coach Sewnet Bishaw was sacked. The soft spoken St. George defender has alluded to the fact that he felt…
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Feb 13, 2014 World Bulletin Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said Wednesday that Egypt would be on the losing side if it referred the issue of Ethiopia’s multibillion-dollar hydroelectric dam project to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). “We’re ready…
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02/13/14 MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – Police in Somalia say a car bomb explosion near Mogadishu’s airport has killed at least three people and wounded five. Police Capt. Mohamed Hussein said the blast Thursday was detonated by remote control at the…
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02/13/14 Field Marshal Sisi (left centre) is in Moscow to negotiate a $2bn arms deal with Russia Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has said he backs Egypt’s military chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi in his “bid for the presidency”. Mr Putin, meeting…
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Apa February 13, 2014 The U.S Agency for International Development (USAID), on Wednesday launched a programme aimed at strengthening Ethiopia’s urban health service delivery and access to 1.6 million households in 49 cities across the country. The USAID programme is…
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By Mengesha R. Endalew February 12, 2014 1. Introduction – Development for Whom? Though the expression of the incumbent regime that “Ethiopia is one of the fastest growing countries in the world” is deemed to be parabolic, there is an…
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By Ahram Online Egypt’s irrigation minister has insisted that discussions with Ethiopia over its proposed hydroelectric dam are still in progress, despite recent media reports announcing that the negotiations between Cairo and Addis Ababa had failed. Al-Ahram’s Arabic news website reported…
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