Somali Jihadis Launch ‘News Channel’ As Officials Warn of Growing Al Qaeda Links By DANA HUGHES | July 31, 2010 Somalia’s Al Qaeda-backed militant group Al-Shabab has launched an on-line…
Ethiopian Opposition Alliance Takes Step Toward Becoming a Single Party By William Davison, Bloomberg | July 30, 2010 A coalition of Ethiopian opposition parties will take steps toward becoming a…
1000 German-trained Somali police officers missing, feared joined Al Shabab Deutsche Welle | July 30, 2010 Somali police officers march during a parade at the Somali police Academy in Mogadishu,…
Ethiopia: Blessed or Cursed? By Yetera Bolle | July 30, 2010 Sometimes, perhaps out of despair and hopelessness, we, Ethiopians, blame the country’s misfortune and leadership crisis on some kind…
Mengistu Haile-Mariam speaks By Eskinder Nega | July 30, 2010 Mengistu in 1999 1975 – Former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam (R) flashes a V-sign as he stands on a podium…
Ethiopia: First independent satellite TV jammed Sudan Tribune | July 30, 2010 ADDIS ABABA) –The First independent Ethiopian satellite service (ESAT) said its transmissions in Ethiopia are intercepted for the…
Egyptian police shoot Eritrean migrant at border Reuters | July 29, 2010 ISMAILIA, Egypt, July 29 (Reuters) – Egyptian police shot dead an Eritrean migrant as he tried to cross…
Somalia’s al-Shabab group warns African troops will be ‘annihilated’ AFP | July 29, 2010 Al Shabaab insurgents prepare artillery gunfire near their Haliwa district base in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu,July 21,…
Amare Aregawi back in the storm By Addis Techane | July 28, 2010 Amare Aregawi (Photo: courtesy of Capital) In his heart wrenching testimony to the nation via an editorial…
On the “failing” Ethiopian literature, Nobel prizes By Debru Negash (MD) | July 28, 2010 Solomon Gebre-Sellasie’s article (Ethiomedia, 21 July 2010) has spurred this scribe to laud him for…