Playing the U.S. Visa Lottery in Ethiopia By Miriam Jordan The Wall Street Journal December 5, 2012 Addis Ababa University students filling out the form for Diva Lottery (Photo: Courtesy…
Egypt clashes erupt despite proposal to end crisis By Yasmine Saleh and Marwa Awad | Reuters December 5, 2012 CAIRO (Reuters) – Islamists fought protesters outside the Egyptian president’s palace…
Ethiopia PM willing to talk to Eritrea Aljazeera December 5, 2012 • Meles Zenawi had asked Isaias Afwerki more than 50 times to resolve the border dispute, says Hailemariam Desalegn.…
Analysis: Why would anyone defect from ‘flawless’ Eritrea? By Simon Allison, December 5, 2012 Eritrea, if its vocal praise-singers are to be believed, is a wonderful place, where everyone is…
Ethiopia’s Jews prepare for the ‘Promised Land’ By Jenny Vaughan | AFP December 4, 2012 It was one of the most daring operations in Ethiopian history: Israel’s 1991 airlift of…
Chemistry prof ‘led’ Sudan militant camp: official By Simon Martelli | AFP December 4, 2012 A chemistry professor allegedly led a group of Sudanese Islamic extremists who ran a training…
Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam – A mega dam with potentially mega consequences By Haydar Yousif, ThinkAfricaPress December 4, 2012 Without greater oversight, Ethiopia’s secretive new dam could have disastrous environmental, social…
In Defense of Religious Freedom in Ethiopia By Alemayehu G Mariam December 3, 2012 The Precarious State of Religious Freedom in Ethiopia In a weekly column entitled “Unity in Divinity”…
Open Letter to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI By Dr. Aberra Molla December 1, 2012 His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI Vatican City, Vatican Your Holiness, Benedict argues Christian calendar based…
Who retards change in Ethiopia? By Teklu Abate (Ph.D) December 1, 2012 Chairman of Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) party, Dr Negasso Gidada, nicely highlighted the current political condition…