December 19, 2016) – Foreign Minister Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu held discussions with the USAID Administrator Gayle E. Smith on Monday in Addis Ababa. On the meeting, Dr. Workneh said that USAID has been supporting Ethiopia in different areas and empowering citizens to be more productive. The Minister underlined that Ethiopian has been working to ensure active participation of society at ... Read More »
Category Archives: East Africa
Updates about Colonel Demeke Zewdu from Gonder via ESAT
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Battle for control of money transfer market looms as banks test systems
The money transfer business in Kenya is currently estimated at over $4 billion. PHOTO | FILE By JAMES ANYANZWA Posted Sunday, December 18 2016 Kenyan banks have started testing a new electronic payment system that will enable their customers to make instant transfers of money they hold in different banks. Currently, this service is only possible between two accounts in the ... Read More »
Sudan civil disobedience: Why are people staying at home?
By James Copnall BBC World Service Africa editor Image copyrightMOHAMED ELHAG/TWITTER Image captionShops remain closed as students and workers stay home in protest against austerity in Sudan Protesters in Sudan are holding a “day of disobedience”. What is it and why are they protesting? BBC World Service Africa editor James Copnall explains. What are the protesters doing? Instead of taking ... Read More »
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Ethiopia to free nearly 10,000 people held under state of emergency, free our Zelalem and others too
Author: DPA Ethiopia on Saturday announced plans to release 9,800 detainees from a total of about 12,500 who were held under the country’s 10-week state of emergency. “9,800 inmates will be released on Wednesday and another 2,449 will be charged for their roles in destabilizing the country,” Defence Minister Siraj Fegessa said on state television. “The inmates that will be ... Read More »
AU expresses concern about upcoming Summit in restive Ethiopia
Ismail Akwei 3 hours ago SOUTH AFRICA The African Union has expressed concern about Ethiopia’s current State of Emergency against the upcoming Heads of State Summit in the capital Addis Ababa in January 2017. The concerns were raised by the Chairperson Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma who met with the newly appointed Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs at the AU Headquarters ... Read More »
Ethiopian troop withdrawal from Somalia exposes peacekeeping problems
© TOBIN JONES, AU UN IST, AFP | In this handout pictured released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team, Ethopian soldiers, wearing their new African Union berets, ready themselves for departure after a ceremony in Somalia Text by James JEFFREY Latest update : 2016-12-15 Since October, Ethiopia has been withdrawing troops from Somalia. The redeployment highlights problems with ... Read More »