South Sudan Transfers Detainees to Kenya After Probe Ends by William Davison
Bloomberg News By David Malingha Doya and William Davison Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) — Seven politicians detained by the South Sudanese authorities last month after being accused of plotting a coup against President Salva Kiir have been transferred to Kenya, President Uhuru Kenyatta said. The seven arrived in Kenya today after the South Sudanese authorities recommended their release, Kenyatta […]
Read More →Facebook Turns 10: The Mark Zuckerberg Interview By Brad Stone and Sarah Frier
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t usually observe sentimental anniversaries. This year he’s confronted by three of them. On Feb. 4,Facebook (FB), the company he co-founded in a Harvard University dorm, turns 10 years old. The prodigy himself turns 30 in May. It’s also been a decade since his first date with Priscilla Chan, now his wife, whom he […]
Read More →Ethiopia: Can you trust the news media? Baile Derseh Mihrete
A large number of people doubt what they read, what they see and hear in the news of EPRDF`s media. Governments want to convince the public to support of polices and their officials. Because the media draws on the content from the government. The media of Ethiopia is among the most strictly controlled in the […]
Read More →Assad Future Blocks Progress In Syria Peace Talks
By ZEINA KARAM 01/28/14 05:29 AM ET EST GENEVA (AP) — The key issue of a transitional government to replace President Bashar Assad blocked any progress Monday in Syrian peace talks, described by one delegate as “a dialogue of the deaf.” The chief U.N. mediator expressed frustration over inflammatory public remarks by the two sides as […]
Read More →Ousted Egyptian leader Mohamed Morsy denounces trial
By Schams Elwazer. Reza Sayah and Holly Yan, CNN Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy is shown on January 30, 2013, in Berlin. (CNN) — Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy, appearing before a Cairo court Tuesday to face charges related to a 2011 jailbreak, denounced the process as unfair and unjust. Speaking from inside a soundproof glass enclosure, Morsy demanded to […]
Read More →2014 Golden Pen of Freedom awarded to jailed Ethiopian journalist
Eskinder Nega, an Ethiopian publisher, journalist and blogger who is serving an 18-year jail sentence under anti-terror legislation, has been awarded the 2014 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). Mr Nega was arrested on September 14, 2011 after publishing an article criticising […]
Read More →Gaddafi’s Sex Chamber Uncovered In Libya
Agency Report — January 27, 2014 It has now been revealed that the most heart-breaking of Gaddafi’s victims include hundreds, possibly thousands of teenage girls who, throughout his 42-year reign, were beaten, raped and forced to become his sex slaves. Many were virgins kidnapped from schools and universities and kept prisoner for years in a […]
Read More →The Filthy Pond of Corruption That TPLF And Its Authorities Baptized In.
 By Mekonenn Elalla Fekadu The current dictatorial regime of Ethiopia which imposes the supremacy of one race is making a prominent chapter in the history of the country by destroying public resources and ransacking financial assets. In its twenty-two years of power life, the regime’s administration has been earmarked with two distinctive traits: corruption and […]
Read More →South Sudan Rebels Say Fighting Has Worsened Since Cease-Fire
By William Davison and Ahmed Feteha January 26, 2014 Rebels say fighting in South Sudan has intensified since a cease-fire that was intended to suspend a five-week conflict that has killed thousands of people and driven half a million from their homes. Government forces allied with fighters from the Justice and Equality Movement, or Jem, […]
Read More →“Time to bring back Eritrea from the cold†A reply to Ambassador Hank Cohen
“Time to bring back Eritrea from the cold†A reply to Ambassador Hank Cohen to read click here the link Thanks  A reply to Cohen and ShinnÂ
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