News Source: News 24
| 20 days ago
The promise of democracy heralded by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War was only comparable with the euphoria of the independence movements in Africa in the 1960s and Nelson Mandela's release from incarceration in 1990. People
News Source: Open Democracy
| 20 days ago
1989 marked not just the fall of half a dozen or so communist ruling parties, and the onset of the the Soviet Union's own end of two years later, but also a massive ideological shift in the world...For in a range of continents and countries, hitherto
News Source: Indian Express
| about 1 month ago
Hit by another drought, they requested 159,410 tonnes of food aid at a donors conference, for 6.2 million people of the landlocked country...Rather than just government and NGO handouts, rockstars too responded. Largely on Bob Geldof�s initiative,
News Source: Daily Nation
| about 1 month ago
Ethiopian Government has appealed for an emergency food aid for 6.2 million people suffering from malnutrition and hunger due to drought. The Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Mitiku Kassa, today presented the government’s
News Source: Sudan Tribune
| 2 months ago
September 22, 2009 — In the dictionary I have found three definitions of the word ‘militia.’ Definition one: militia means an army of soldiers who are civilians but take military training and can serve full-time during emergencies.
News Source: Voice of America
| 2 months ago
A new International Crisis Group report says Ethiopia is becoming an authoritarian one-party state, and warns that government policies there could lead to a violent eruption ahead of next year's elections. The report also faults the international
News Source: The independent
| 2 months ago
Women and children gather at a food distribution centre in Ethiopia's Oromiya region The spectre of famine has returned to the Horn of Africa nearly a quarter of a century after the world's pop stars gathered to banish it at Live Aid, raising £150m
News Source: Daily Nation
| 3 months ago
Whenever any group fights for self-determination, in most cases, it is a cry by a smaller fish against the sharks. Watching the four-part series broadcast by NTV recently, one may think that Ethiopia’s Oromos are a minority group being squeezed