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Moshe Bahta, director of the Ibim absorption center, briefing his staff, Nov. 18, 2012. (Adam Soclof for JTA) In a single day, Ethiopian immigrants make aliyah--and are thrust into a war zone By Ben Sales Source: JTA IBIM, Israel (JTA) - The...
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Ethiopia: ENTC lost one of its own - Rest in Peace Prof. Meseret Chekol RetaNovember 20, 2012It is with deepest sorrow and regret that the Leadership Council of ENTC announces the loss of our member Prof. Meseret Chekol Reta, who was an active an...
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Ethiopian Airlines CEO sees scope for Chinese investment By Victoria Moores Source: ATW Ethiopian Airlines (ET) CEO Tewolde Gebremariam believes Chinese carriers could be on the cusp of seeking greater cooperation and equity ties with African ai...
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Ethiopia: Between Journalism And Terrorism: The Curious Case Of Martin Schibbye And Johan Persson November 20, 2012By Alemayehu Fentaw WeldemariamPreviously Published by Eurasia ReviewMartin Schibbye and Johan Persson, two Swedish jou...
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The idea of The Silent University started at the beginning of 2012. It was inspired by the urgent need for a common voice for asylum seekers, refugees and migrants, who although from a professional background, could not practice their profession due to the limitations of residency permits, language barriers and other bureaucratic restrictions.
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Writers in the blogsphere have been passing The Next Big Thing around cyberspace for us to hear about what writers have in their pipeline, to tell us about their Next Big Thing. I was invited by UK based writer Sue Guiney whose Next Big Thing can be seen HERE. Sue Guiney is the author of A Clash of the Innocents and Tangled Roots (both novels), a collection of poetry, Her Life Collected, and a poetry play, Dreams of May.
Now for My Next Big Thing....
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Mr George Lawson, Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has made a passionate appeal to the security agencies, especially the police to fair in their dealings.
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Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, former First Lady says the formation of the National Democratic Party (NDP) was a reaction to the declining integrity in governance over the past few years.
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Every few months, I have another meeting with a donor agency or an NGO that is interested in developing joint activities with China, in Africa.
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U.S. Launches New Livestock Market Development Project in Ethiopia Press Release Farmers in Four Regions to Benefit November 17, 2012, Adama, Oromia - As part of President Obama's Feed the Future Initiative in Ethiopia, the U.S. Agency for Inter...
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GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- The city awoke to artillery and mortar fire today as rebels with the March 23 Movement, or M23, pushed into the outskirts of town, taking control of North Kivu province's main airport, a strategic point, around 11:30 this morning. Main streets in town were deserted, and local radio stations stopped broadcasting and only played music. Residents who had not fled as the rebels approached mostly sought refuge inside their homes. Along some side streets, women offered drinking water to the rows of government troops who trudged through on patrol, and young men helped soldiers carry their heavy weapons. Elsewhere, however, reports emerged of soldiers taking advantage of the chaos, looting shops and robbing people along the road.
In advance of today's attack, a ...
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Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip continued late Tuesday despite frantic diplomatic efforts to reach a ceasefire deal, with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holding talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
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Adhel* lost her husband and one of her children earlier this year when the Sudanese Armed Forces, or SAF, bombed her town in South Kordofan. "It's a mess, many people were captured, others scattered, others came here, and others killed." The Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, or SPLM-N, were not present in her town during the attacks. Now "the child inside her womb has no father," said the Nuba translator.
The first attack on her village was a ground attack, but subsequent attacks have been from the air. "Antonovs are bombing civilian areas," she said, describing regularly seeking refuge in nearby mountains and forests whenever her village came under bombardment. Though bombings have been off and on since the war started in June 2011, Adhel only arrived in Yida refugee camp in South ...
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Recent corruption allegations.
The ACC is investigating rampant financial abuse worth billions of Kwacha at the Rural Electrification Authority (REA). This follows revelations from Auditor General who has just completed a 30-day audit of the institution. Earlier this year some concerned REA employees sent a confidential dossier to President Michael Sata cataloguing many abuses at REA by the CEO Wilfred Serenje (now fired), including general theft by public servant, nepotism, corruption and victimisation. There are so many government agencies that exist just to waste public money.
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Since I blogged yesterday about the fighting around the city of Goma between the army of the Democratic Republic of...
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This summer I received an email from my friend Anusha about a young inventor in Freetown. The story really made me laugh because while being quite unique, it also really summed up a lot about the nature of social navigation for all types of young people in Sierra Leone: there is a 12 year old kid called General Focus, [...]
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