Gay rights activists call for Liberian president to veto bill criminalising same-sex marriage
Group wants Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to lose her Nobel Peace Prize if she reneges on promise to veto any bill against homosexualityGroup wants Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to lose her Nobel Peace Prize if she reneges on promise to veto any bill against homosexuality Gay rights activists are starting an online petition calling for Liberian president Ellen Johnson […]
Read More →US to sell 60 Patriot missiles to Kuwait
WASHINGTON:- The Pentagon said Wednesday it planned to sell 60 Patriot missiles to Kuwait in a deal worth an estimated $4.2 billion, as the emirate tries to bolster its defenses against the threat from Iran. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), which is in charge of US weapon sales to foreign countries, notified the […]
Read More →Ethiopia Bans Newspaper After Stories On Meles Illness, Protests
An Ethiopian court banned distribution of a newspaper that published front-page articles about Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s health and protests by Muslims in the capital, Addis Ababa, the government said. Editors from the weekly Feteh newspaper may face criminal charges because of national security concerns, State Minister of Justice Berhanu Tsegaye said in a phone interview today. […]
Read More →John Atta Mills Dead: Ghana President Reportedly Dies
Ghana President John Atta Mills attends the Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Friday, May 18, 2012, at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ACCRA, July 24 (Reuters) – Ghana’s President John Atta Mills has died unexpectedly, a presidential statement said, and an […]
Read More →Ethiopian weekly blocked for reporting on Meles’ health
Nairobi, July 23, 2012–Ethiopian authorities blocked the publication of a prominent independent newspaper over the weekend in connection with its stories on the health of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, according to local journalists.
Read More →Ethiopia and Eritrea: Rising Tensions Amid New Opportunities for Engagement
by Jason Mosley, Associate Fellow, Africa Programme The latest report from the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea has stirred tensions between Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. Eritrea has seized on a selective reading of the report to call for the lifting of UN imposed sanctions, a call already rebuffed by the Monitoring Group’s Coordinator. […]
Read More →Ethiopian police clash with Muslim protesters, several arrested
Ethiopian police beating Muslim protesters 07 21 2012 By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA | Sat Jul 21, 2012 9:27pm BST ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopian police clashed on Saturday with scores of Muslims protesters complaining that the state is interfering in their religion, witnesses and officials said. The protesters, some wearing masks, blocked the entrance […]
Read More →Ethiopian Prime Minister Takes Break to Recover From Illness
By William Davison  Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is taking a break to recover from an unspecified illness and will return to duty once he is well, Communications Minister Bereket Simon said. “He is in good health,†Bereket told reporters today inAddis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, adding that further details aren’t being announced for […]
Read More →CIA takes over as Ethiopian regime crumbles: analyst
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shakes hands with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. (file photo) Hated in his ethnic homeland of Tigray, once his power base, and hated by the Amhara elite, the ethnic minority who previously ruled Ethiopia, Meles has ceded de facto control of his ministries to technocrats from the CIA and […]
Read More →Press release | PEN denounces sentencing of Ethiopian blogger Eskinder Nega
in the theater of One World a media project | in pursuit of cultural diplomacy and international understanding  Posted on July , 2012 NEW YORK CITY | PEN American Center reacted angrily to the sentencing of journalist Eskinder Nega to 18 years in prison on bogus terrorism charges in Ethiopia, calling on the United States and other donor […]
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