Sudan’s Turabi held after ‘Tunisia’ revolt warning By Simon Martelli | January 19, 2011 Hassan Al Turabi KHARTOUM (AFP) – Sudanese Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi was arrested at his…

Gebremedhin Araya: TPLF and its crimes against humanity ESAT | Updated January 10, 2011 WASHINGTON, DC – In this second part of an interview, Gebremedhin continues to narrate a more…

Ivory Coast general strike called to oust Gbagbo By Marco Chown Oved, Associated Press | December 27, 2010 Laurent Gbagbo (AP) ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – Allies of the man who…

Here we go again! Controversy over pardoning Derg officials By Dires Nega (Eske Meche)| December 27, 2010 After following the discourse on the drive for pardon and forgiveness of the…

Ethiopian Groundhog Year 2010 By Alemayehu G. Mariam | December 27, 2010 In December 2008, I wrote a weekly column entitled “Groundhog Year in Prison Nation” summarizing some of my…

Storm strands buses, planes, trains on East Coast By ULA ILNYTZKY and GLEN JOHNSON, Associated Press | December 27, 2010 NEW YORK – A powerful East Coast blizzard marooned thousands…

8 American tourists killed in a bus crash in Egypt By Salah Nasrawi, AP | December 26, 2010 Unidentified men observe the remains of a tour bus that crashed into…

Wave of Jewish racism worries Netenyahu, activists By Steve Weizman | December 26, 2010 JERUSALEM (AFP) – A wave of protests and discriminatory acts by Jewish Israelis against Arabs and…

Dutch cops arrest Somalis over terrorism plot By Gilbert Kreijger, Reuters | December 26, 2010 AMSTERDAM, – Dutch police arrested 12 Somalis on Christmas Eve on suspicion of plotting an…

Misreading the concept of pardon and forgiveness By Tecola W. Hagos | December 26, 2010 “Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.” Immanuel Kant,…