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The Valentine's celebrations are rolling over to the weekend for all you lovers in the house, but we've equally got some great picks for those proud singletons who like the best bits of London Fashion Week, experimental theatre and John McClane times three (or four, if you're looking to catch the new Die Hard this weekend). Win-win all around!
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I heard about the fact that SI's annual swimsuit issue covered all seven continents after it published this week. My first thought was to check on the Africa pictures to see if they included directly or references to traditional African cultures. They certainly did do that and were offensive along the way. Jezebel with the takedown (the issue also manages to do much the same in Asia):
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Screening at the ongoing Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, now in the latter half of this year's run, is Russell Sharman's micro-budget indie Apartment 4E (previously titled Small Of Her Back) - a two-character dark romance about Piper (Nicole Beharie), a young woman diagnosed with Bi-Polar disorder who gets a knock on her door by John (newcomer Christopher Domig), a man who claims to be the brother of a Molly; the latter is a woman Piper has built an online relationship with for the past three months. Apartment 4E - described as a "suicidal shut in" - has the feel of a stage play, especially the scenes -...
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US Military drone Photo CIA Ethiopia builds its first drone - ST Source: Sudan Tribune February 14, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - An Ethiopian military source has told Sudan Tribune that the country has built the first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or dr...
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Grand Renaissance dam in Ethiopia Ethiopia resorts to unorthodox funding plan for Grand Renaissance scheme Fears that construction of a mega hydroelectric plant in Ethiopia could stall owing to financial constraints have forced the authorities to t...
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Ethiopia airs jihadi film amid sensitive Muslim protest trial The strategic Horn of Africa country is one-third Muslim and two-thirds Christian; why is its state-TV ginning up religious tension? By William Davison Ethiopia, a US ally in the batt...
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Which way to the mausoleum? Long live the king: Ethiopia's new leadership is practising hero-worship Source: Economist DURING his two decades running Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi almost single-handedly engineered its rise from lost cause to model pupi...
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Ethiopian Flower Exporters Cash In on Valentine's DayBy Marthe Van Der WolfVOA NewsADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA -- Ethiopia's flower exporters are cashing in on Valentine's Day, as the industry blooms. Many of the roses that lovers give each ot...
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Blame the bleeding-heart human rights crusaders.
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In his State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama mostly separated domestic and foreign policy, perhaps understandably, but let's connect some dots here.
The president mentioned the need to invest in our infrastructure, which is sorely needed and is also both a terrific job creator and economic stimulator. Specifically he noted there are 70,000 bridges needing repair. Let's get that done! Some will say there's no money for this, but of course there is -- it's just misappropriated right now in our bloated Pentagon budget, including useless, exorbitant Cold War weapons systems, maintaining more than 1,000 foreign military bases (many in countries that can defend themselves), unnecessary plans for nuclear weapons "modernization" and the $7 billion per month we continue to spend on an ...
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Right now, only the groups who can either buy or bully their way into the discussion are participating in peace talks for eastern Congo. In a policy brief released today, the Enough Project's Aaron Hall and I identify incentives and coercive economic and diplomatic tools that can be used to bring the necessary parties to the negotiation table in a mindset where they are willing to make the difficult decisions necessary to forge a lasting peace. The third in a three-part series on Congo's peace process, the report argues that the international community, with behind-the-scenes U.S. leadership, must apply a carefully calibrated package of leverage on relevant stakeholders. Most analysts agree that eastern Congo needs a broader, legitimate, and internationally-mediated peace process. However, ...
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While shopping for Christmas presents this past December in a local gaming store, this little number caught my eye. Ticket to Ride: The Heart of Africa is a variation of a popular board game in which players compete to build railways connecting major cities. The original version of the game uses a map of the [...]
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