BBC Signs of an economic slowdown in China have led to fears of a global recession, including Africa, given the close ties it has built up with China in recent years. BBC Africa Business Report’s Lerato Mbele looks at five ways the continent could be affected: The rand South Africa’s currency has taken the hardest…
The Guardian The radicals are pressing for a French Revolution-style solution – a mass execution of the aristocracy Addis Ababa, December 1974: Ethiopia’s Derg leaders, who deposed emperor Haile Selassie in September 1974. Photograph: J. M. Blin/AFP/Getty Images David Ottaway Addis Ababa, August 23 They are crowded into three long army barracks, sleeping on…
Huffington Post Twenty years ago one Ethiopian Diaspora in Washington asked the late Prime minister Meles Zenawi what his vision for the country was. A rather polite and amiable Meles outlined his vision in a very human centered way. He said he hopes that in ten years every Ethiopian will have enough to eat three…
By Adie Vanessa Offiong /Daily Trust Ethiopia’s first mosque undergoing restoration Ethiopia is a country full of history and stories. These stories connect the ancient civilisation to several other destinations across the world. One such is its link with Islam and Mecca. Ethiopians, according to the tour guide, Temesgen Bitewlign, were very receptive of Muslims…
JPost Jews of Kechene, Ethiopia pretend to be Christians as they secretly practice Judaism in remote synagogues. Elders of theBeta Israel community of North Shewa, Ethiopia . (photo credit:Courtesy) I have always been fascinated by the story of the Beta Israel Jews of Ethiopia. At the time of the epic Operation Solomon, I was living…
HRW Leaked Documents Show Need to Regulate Surveillance Sales Internet café in Lalibela, Amhara Region, Ethiopia.© 2010 Hemis.fr/AFP Photo (New York, August 13, 2015) – The Italian spyware firm Hacking Team took no effective action to investigate or stop reported abuses of its technology by the Ethiopian government against dissidents, Human Rights Watch said today. A…
y AfricanArgumentsEditor By Ismail Einashe African Arguments The Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa is going through one of the fastest rates of urban growth in the world. In Amharic ‘Addis Ababa’ means ‘new flower’, and Menelik II founded the city at the end of the 19th century. For much of its history, Addis was a small town, at the…
Low expression of EDNRB gene increases tolerance for low oxygen conditions found at high altitudes, providing new drug target for sea level diseases By Heather Buschman, PhD, UC San Diego Health Ethiopians have lived at high altitudes for thousands of years, providing a natural experiment for studying human adaptations to low oxygen, a condition known as…
CHRISTINE MUNGAI Mail & Guardian Africa Perhaps there is something unique in the airline business that makes it easier for a “clever” and developmental authoritarian regime to find success. KENYA Airways (KQ) last week announced a loss of $257 million (Ksh25.7 billion), the biggest ever in the country’s corporate history. It’s a shocking tumble for Kenya’s national carrier;…