PERRY MUNZWEMBIRM & G Africa In effect, the issue of migrants brings to the fore certain truths that may be unpalatable to some, especially, the more advanced economies. Some pay as much as $10,000 for this voyage from Africa to Europe, riddled with uncertainty, and the threat of being defrauded, kidnapped, or shipwrecked. (Photo/FILE). WORLD…
By Adam Taylor , The Washington Post Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, center, seen during the “family photograph” taken at the A.U. Summit in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa, on June 14. (Kim Ludbrook/EPA) When the International Criminal Court was established in 2002, there was little doubt that the theory behind it was noble. The multilateral treaty that resulted in the court,…
By Tomi OladipoBBC News, Africa security correspondent Djibouti hosts the largest American permanent military base in Africa Djibouti, a small country on the Red Sea, is already home to military bases from the US and France, the former colonial power, but China’s interest is now becoming increasingly apparent. What makes this horn of Africa nation…
By Kim Komando, Komando (Photo: AP) Ever wonder what’s online about you? Do you know how to really look in all the Internet’s crevices? A simple Google search of someone’s name can turn up all kinds of things that most folks don’t want public. It might be embarrassing photos, an old message they forgot about or…
Commentary: Mesfin Wolde-Mariam Gayle Smith came to Addis with the Weyyane. She was even pretending to speak Tigrigna. It was very clear then that she, together with Paul Henze, were CIA agents who came to install The Weyyane in power. They have succeeded immensely. They do not know the Ethiopian people! By Thomas C. Mountain Online…
Mohammad Amir Anwar Quartz Africa, WRITTEN BY Mohammad Amir Anwar The global food price crises between 2008 and 2009 led countries that bore the brunt of the catastrophe to look elsewhere for agricultural land to mitigate the effects. In 2008 prices of some foods, including wheat, soared by 130% in a single year and the…
Control of sources could expand power deep into Africa WASHINGTON – Just as ISIS has targeted oil refineries in its takeover of half of Syria and one-third of Iraq to finance its operations, the self-declared Islamic caliphate is looking to control access to something more vital – water – as it expands to North Africa,…
By Richard Ingham Paris (AFP) – In 1974, anthropologists in Ethiopia found the astonishing fossilised remains of a human-like creature who last walked the planet some 3.2 million years ago. Was “Lucy,” as the hominid was called, the direct ancestor of Homo sapiens? Was she “The Mother of Mankind,” as some headlines claimed? Over the…
The CIA has released a list of books found in Osama Bin Laden’s Pakistan compound. His reading list includes two novels by Noam Chomsky, the 9/11 truther novel The New Pearl Harbor and an online article questioning if the illuminati were behind the attacks. It also contained articles related to Project MKULTRA, the CIA’s secretive…
(a guide for foreign journalists on Oromos and Ethiopian history) By Prof. Feqadu Lamessa for Salem-News.com ADAMA, Ethiopia (Salem-News) – Recently, the Qatar-based media al Jazeera has published several articles concerning the Oromo people of Ethiopia. It is the first international media outlet to extensively report on our people and it should be praised for bringing our cause…