Clinton Foundation aide says ‘unless Sheikh Mo has sent us a $6 million check, this sounds crazy to do’ By Brendan Kirby A top Clinton Foundation official expressed reservations about former President Bill Clinton contacting a Saudi Arabian and Ethiopian billionaire to thank him for offering a plane ride to Ethiopia — unless it would…
FILE – In this Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 file photo, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir speaks after meeting with South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, in the capital Juba, South Sudan. South Africa has decided to withdraw… (AP Photo/Ali Ngethi, File) By CARA ANNA JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Until this week, no country had withdrawn from the International Criminal…
By THOMAS MOUNTAIN With ethnic uprisings spreading across an Ethiopia now ruled by martial law there is only one nationally based organization in place to lead the eventual regime change in the country and that is the revolutionary Islamic movement. Presently all the liberation resistance movements in Ethiopia are ethnically based with their senior leadership…
A protest in Bishoftu, Ethiopia, on Oct. 2. No place exposes the cracks in the narrative of Africa’s rising better than Ethiopia, which is one of the continent’s fastest-developing but most repressive nations. ASSOCIATED PRESS By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN NAIROBI, Kenya — For decades Africa was eager for a new narrative, and in recent years it got a…
Demonstrators chant slogans while flashing the Oromo protest gesture during Irreecha, the thanksgiving festival of the Oromo people, in Bishoftu town, Oromia region, Ethiopia, on Oct. 2. (Tiksa Negeri/Reuters) The Washington Post The October 11 World article “Ethiopia imposes state of emergency amid unrest” highlighted the widespread and proactive dissent that the undemocratic government is…
Women carry water back to their makeshift homes in Aydora, Ethiopia, in February. (Aida Muluneh /For The Washington Post) Regarding the Aug. 10 editorial “Ethiopia’s violent silencing”: It is true that, as the editorial board put it, “the United States has long relied on Ethiopia as a partner in the fight against al-Shabab’s terrorism in…
ነገረ ‹ቀለም አብዮት› በዘላለም ክብረት ሁለቱም ሃገራት በይፋ የዲፕሎማሲ ግንኙነት ከጀመሩ መቶ ዓመታት አልፈዋል፡፡ ሁለቱም በተመሳሳይ ወቅት ከኮሚኒስታዊ አስተዳደርና ስርዓት መፋታታቸውን ባወጁ ማግስት ዴሞክራሲን ተግባራዊ የማድረግ ፈተና አጋጥሟቸዋል፡፡ ሁለቱም ሃገራት በተመሳሳይ ወቅት ባፀደቁት ሕገ መንግስታቸው የምርጫ ዴሞክራሲን (electoral democracy) አውጀዋል፡፡ ነገር ግን ሁለቱም ሃገራት ዴሞክራሲያዊ ሕገ መንግስታቸውን ካፀደቁ ወዲህ ተቃዋሚዎቻቸው ስልጣን ሊይዙ አልቻሉም፤ የመያዝ እድላቸውም…
By Ali A. Rizvi, HPost Where are all the secular liberals in the Muslim world? I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard this question. The answer is both unsurprising and heartbreaking. In Muslim-majority countries, they are often beinglashed and imprisoned for blogging, hacked to death in open daylight, or sentenced to death for writing poetry.…
By Tom Hale, IFLScience photo credit: Cameron Beccario Maps are one of those things you can lose yourself in for hours. Since their humble origins as scribbles in the sand thousands of millennia ago, maps have been useful companions during the development of human culture and society. Now, in an age of seemingly endless information, maps are more abundant, advanced…
Image copyright AFP BBC Hailemariam Desalegn’s party won a landslide victory in May’s elections Ethiopia’s prime minister has told the BBC he is not afraid of criticism from journalists, despite the country’s reputation for stifling free speech. “Free media is very essential for the democratic process and… development,” Hailemariam Desalegn said. He insisted some bloggers and…