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
Read More →Lupita Ngong’o’s parents watch movie for the first time
Actress Lupita Nyongo (centre) in a scene from the movie ‘12 years a slave’. [PHOTO: COURTESY] By RUSHDIE OUDIA KISUMU, KENYA: Oscar award nominee Lupita Nyongo’s parents joined hundreds of Kisumu County residents to watch the ‘12 years a slave’ movie. Kisumu Senator Anyang’ Nyong’o and his wife Dorothy whose daughter has brought fame to […]
Read More →Dubai Marathon: 18-year-old Tsegaye wins in second fastest time – By emirates247
(Photo courtesy dubaimarathon.com) Ethiopians make clean sweep in world’s richest marathon For the third year in a row, a marathon ‘new boy’ won the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon as teenager Tsegaye Mekonnen led an Ethiopian sweep in the emirate on Friday. The 18 year-old caused a major surprise, running 2h:04m:32s in his first marathon, to […]
Read More →South Sudan’s Government Signs Cease-Fire Accord With Rebels By William Davison
   Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) — The government and rebels in South Sudan signed a cease-fire to end five weeks of fighting that killed as many as 10,000 people and was described by a senior United Nations official as “a horror.†The warring parties agreed to halt fighting within 24 hours, in an accord signed yesterday by the […]
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