Ethiopia has lifted travel restrictions imposed on diplomats under emergency rule, saying calm has been restored after months of violent protests. Over 500 people have been killed in unrest since…
The Man Who Stole the Nile An Ethiopian billionaire’s outrageous land grab By Frederick Kaufman September 17, 2014 Sheik Mohammed Al-Amoudi Forget about diamond heists, bank robberies, and drilling into…
The Nile Project: Producing Harmony In A Divided Region By Julie Caine, NPR September 15, 2014 In a quiet park in Kampala, Uganda, 14 musicians from seven East African countries…
DIFRET: The Abduction of a Film in Ethiopia By Alemayehu G Mariam September 8, 2014 What is the difference between the abduction of a young girl in a village and…
Mulatu Astatke: the man who created ‘Ethio jazz’ By Richard Williams, Guardian September 8, 2014 Mulatu Astatke ‘Everybody knows that Ethiopian jazz is the only kind worth listening to these…
Middle East Time Bomb: The Real Aim of ISIS Is to Replace the Saud Family as the New Emirs of Arabia
Middle East Time Bomb: The Real Aim of ISIS Is to Replace the Saud Family as the New Emirs of Arabia By Alastair Crooke September 3, 2014 What ISIS sees…
US military targets extremists in Somalia By September 2, 2014 A Shebab fighter in Mogadishu (AP file photo) WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military forces targeted the Islamic extremist al-Shabab network…
The Game of Thrones in Ethiopia By Alemayehu G Mariam September 1, 2014 In the “Game of Thrones”, (the book from which the internationally popular television series of the same name…
A Long Road To Justice By Raina Delisle August 29, 2014 Teklemichael Sahlemariam Teklemichael Sahlemariam is a wanted man in his homeland of Ethiopia, but in Canada he’s about to…
You Can’t Understand ISIS If You Don’t Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia By Alastair Crooke, The World Post August 28, 2014 An ISIS fighter next to captured…