Remote museum built to save tribe’s soul By AFP | January 3, 2010 KONSO, Ethiopia (AFP) – Women jump up in their fluffy orange cotton skirts, waggling their shoulders at…
Pro-govt militia defeats Islamists in Somali town AFP | January 3, 2010 MOGADISHU (AFP) – A pro-government militia fought off Islamist insurgents who tried to capture a central Somali town,…
Birtukan Mideksa: Ethiopia’s freedom supernova By Abebe Gellaw | January 2, 2010 Throughout history, so many rulers have risen and fallen from the pinnacles of power. Among a long list…
Obama: al-Qaida link to Christmas terror suspect By Philip Elliott, Associated Press Writer | January 2, 2010 HONOLULU – President Barack Obama laid blame Saturday on an al-Qaida affiliate for…
Police shoot Somali man attacking Muhammad cartoonist By Jan M. Olsen, AP writer | January 2, 2010 COPENHAGEN – Police shot a Somali man wielding an ax and a knife…
Latino beat sweeps Ethiopian capital By Aaron Maasho | January 2, 2010 ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – It’s a far cry from Ethiopia‘s traditional Eskista shoulder shake dance, but Salsa is…
Ethiopia rejects warning of hunger after drought BBC | January 2, 2010 An Ethiopian minister has denied reports that millions of people need urgent food aid after failed rains. Disaster…
Somalia’s ahlu Sunna clash with Shabaab, 10 killed By Abdi Sheikh | January 2, 2010 Al Shabab fighters display battle wagons as they conduct a military exercise in northern Mogadishu’s…
Why it’s high time for opposition parties to close ranks By Solomon Gebreselassie | January 1, 2010 “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”- George Santayana…
Somalia’s Shebab says will send fighters to Yemen By Mustafa Haji Abdinur | January 1, 2010 Shabab militia patrol Bakara Market in Mogadishu in 2009. (AFP/Abdurashid Abikar) MOGADISHU (AFP) –…