Ipss-Addis– Barack Obama will be the first sitting US president to visit the African Union or its predecessor the Organisation of African Union (OAU) when he makes his long-awaited visit to its headquarters in Addis Ababa next week. With the historic visit grabbing the headlines, the African Union’s relations with the United States is expected…
Thatcher decided it was wrong to ‘jog along’ with the Mengistu government, whose human rights abuses greatly exacerbated the famine death toll Margaret Thatcher demanded that Britain find ways to “destabilise” the regime which presided over Ethiopia’s disastrous 1984 famine after concluding that British aid was wrongly supporting its “particularly cruel” government, according to previously…
Slate Hint: It has nothing to do with the deal. By Fred Kaplan Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement in his office in Jerusalem on July 14, 2015, after world powers reached a historic nuclear deal with Iran.Photo by Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images Here’s the thing to keep in mind about most critics of the…
Six world powers China, France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States, with the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy) and the Islamic Republic of Iran reached a historic nuclear deal on Tuesday. Read the full text of the deal in PDF Iran-deal-text .
Lawsuit alleges that Addis Ababa used private technology to monitor Internet communications of dissident-linked American By Jenifer Fenton, Aljazeera A first-of-its kind lawsuit that resumes in a U.S. District Court on Tuesday has drawn attention to the private surveillance-technology industry as a potential enabler of spying on Americans. The case involves a U.S. citizen who alleges…
The Guardian Development economist Owen Barder gives an insight into what the coming five days of plenaries, roundtables and side events will be all about Addis Ababa is a great city for running, according to Owen Barder. Photograph: David Levene On Monday 13 July, world leaders will gather in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, for…
By Andrea Peterson I The Washington Post (Kacper Pempel/Reuters) Now we know what it takes to get your hacking tools taken away if you’re a repressive government. It’s not enough to get caught spying on U.S.-based journalists — or even to have the story plastered on the front page of a major U.S. newspaper. But if you get caught…
The crackdown on Muslim activists is part of Addis Ababa’s crusade against independent voices and opposition leaders By Awol Allo I Aljazeera On July 6, Ethiopia’s Federal High Court convicted leaders of the Ethiopian Muslims protest movement on charges of terrorism and conspiracy to create an Islamic state in Ethiopia. The verdict — against two Muslim journalists,…
CSO Online Credit: Steve Ragan Hacking Team is awake, and the first order of business is to promote fear, uncertainty, and doubt On Sunday evening, someone hijacked the Hacking Team account on Twitter and used it to announce that the company known for developing hacking tools was itself a victim of a devastating hack. Note:…
By RENÉ LEFORT I Open Democracy The history of this country is one of eternal recurrence. The ‘national question” re-emerges where it has always been, with varying degrees of visibility: at the heart of Ethiopian political life. steamroller has flattened everything in its way. The opposition held one seat in the outgoing parliament. It will not hold a…