US rejects Mugabe election win, EU expresses concern
Voters queue in last week’s Zimbabwean presidential election The US has rejected Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s election win while the European Union has expressed concern over the poll.US...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Mugabe starts his seventh term, attacks ‘vile’ West
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, Africa’s oldest leader at 89, began a new five-year term on Thursday by calling the West “vile” for questioning his re-election and vowing to press ahead with...
View ArticleA Roadmap For Moroccan Diplomacy
By Said Temsamani On August 3O, in his address to Moroccan ambassadors, HM King Mohammed VI stressed the fact that to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities of the 21st century, Morocco needs...
View ArticleZimababwe: Mugabe threatens US with unspecified action
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF says it is not worried by the United States’ decision yesterday to maintain sanctions against Zimbabwe, but confirmed Mugabe’s threats to retaliate. The...
View ArticleThe Somali Compact: promising Deal but with fatal flaws
After one year of consultations, planning sessions, and international conferences, representatives of the International Community (Development Partners) and High level delegation led by President...
View ArticleWhy Zimbabweans should follow the American Debt Crisis: Next Time
Of all the constraints on new government, it is the market that proves most confining-and this in a way is the genius of unfettered capitalism: it is self-enforcing. Once countries have opened...
View ArticleUN to Resettle Thousands of Refugees in Ethiopia to 3rd Country
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) have revealed that plans are underway to resettle over 3,000 refugees in Ethiopia under the UNHCR’s resettlement program, according to a report...
View ArticleThe Ethiopian Diaspora – Keeper of the Faith
By Yilma Bekele It is a new year and it is always nice to take stock of the damage after another year of trials and tribulations that is testing our endurance as a Nation and people. 2013 has not been...
View ArticleGrace Mugabe Africa’s Fourth Female President
The refusal last week by the EU not to allow Robert Mugabe’s former mistress now wife, Grace to attend the EU-Africa Summit to be held in Brussels, Belgium, next week has attracted a major furore...
View Article“Nineteen Eighty-Four” in 2014 Ethiopiana
By Alemayehu G Mariam The secrecy-obsessed regime in Ethiopia has a huge creepy dragnet of secret electronic surveillance programs to sniff out the deeply-buried secrets of the people of Ethiopia. They...
View ArticleMugabe shuns EU-Africa talks after wife denied visa
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe will boycott the mammoth European Union-Africa summit after his wife Grace Mugabe was denied a visa to enter Europe, a foreign ministry official said on Friday. “We...
View ArticleWhy key African countries have boycotted eu-Africa meeting
Aldo Dell’Ariccia Abayomi Azikiwe A planned summit between the European Union and the African nation-states has been met with controversy and rejection. The Republics of Zimbabwe and South Africa, two...
View ArticleHow Ethiopia Spies on Its Diaspora Abroad
By Felix Horne Published in the Wall Street Journal Many Europeans are upset over revelations that the United States government spies on them. But European companies are selling surveillance tools and...
View ArticleHelp Africa like Ukraine
By U S TV Reality Court Show Judge Greg Mathis In the Spring and Summer of 1994, almost 1 million African’s belonging to the Tutsi tribe of Rwanda were killed within 120 days. The Rwandan genocide...
View ArticleAfrica Has Enough Of Crima At Home
Farouk Martins Aresa Africa fear remains the same: when elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. President Obama handled Crimea better than his predecessors with economic sanctions against...
View ArticleEurope: Growing Resistance to US Ukraine Policy
The United States has always tried to do its best to weaken Russia. Driving a wedge between Russia and the European Union is a priority mission. But Crimea and Ukraine frustrate the plans. Entangled in...
View ArticleFrom Libya to Lampedusa: Life in Italy for Somali Refugees
By Asha Siad and Roda Siad They call them Ciyaalka Badda or children from the sea. This phrase is used when referring to the young Somali refugees who come by boat from North Africa. The expressions of...
View Article17 African migrants die in a boat shipwreck off Italy – Eritreans, Nigerians...
Italy warns EU on asylum as shipwreck survivors land (Italy) (AFP) – An Italian warship on Tuesday unloaded the 17 victims and 206 survivors of a migrant boat shipwreck, as Italy threatened to send...
View ArticleIn the CAR, Joseph Zindeko and the Seleka are here to stay
– By Louisa Lombard Years before he took up arms as a rebel, the new military chief of the Seleka rebel alliance, Joseph Zindeko, was shot in the knee (the bullet exited through his thigh – he showed...
View ArticleZimbabwe: one year on ZANU-PF consolidates power, but economy remains in dire...
One year on from Zimbabwe’s heavily disputed 2013 elections, we asked Simukai Tinhu, a Zimbabwean political analyst (and regular AA contributor) and Nicole Beardsworth, a PhD student at Warwick...
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