Climate-vulnerable developing nations could use international law to break the current deadlock in the intergovernmental negotiations onclimate change by taking industrialised nations to court, says a paper published today (4 October) by the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD). The publication comes as government officials from around the world gather in Tianjin , China for three days of ... Read More »
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Vulnerable nations could hasten international action on climate change by taking industrialised countries to court, say lawyers
Climate-vulnerable developing nations could use international law to break the current deadlock in the intergovernmental negotiations onclimate change by taking industrialised nations to court, says a paper published today (4 October) by the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD). The publication comes as government officials from around the world gather in Tianjin , China for three days of ... Read More »
Analysis: New Ethiopian policy to handle disaster risk
from ReliefWeb Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) GAMBELLA, 27 September 2010 (IRIN) – Huge bonfires mark the Orthodox Christian feast day of Meskel on 27 September, which coincides with the end of the rainy season in the highlands of Ethiopia. This year rains were good; too good in some ... Read More »
Mugabe’s darkest secret: An £800bn blood diamond mine he’s running with China’s Red Army
Editors Note: I like this story cause it holds water in other African cases too.Ours(Ethiopia) is a typical example of hidden inter-party and regime deals are sealed with China on resources and bids . By Andrew Malone Across a remote tract of southern Africa, naturally fortified by mountains and patrolled by hundreds of soldiers with dogs trained to tear intruders ... Read More »
ICC to open liaison office in front of genocide suspect PM
ICC President Sang-Hyun Song and African Union Commission Chairperson Jean Ping meeting in Addis Ababa (AU Website) By Ankober The International Criminal Court (ICC) is set to establish a liaison office in Addis Ababa to serve as its branch office in Africa, sources confirm. Judge Sang-Hyun Song, President of the ICC, concluded a two day visit to the headquarters of ... Read More »
Foreigners engaged in banking in Ethiopia, law prohibits
By Ankober The banking sector in Ethiopia has been protected from involvement of foreigners and bankers by Banking Proclamation No. 1984.However, negating this Proclamation, the government in Ethiopia has been illegally allowing foreigners and foreign banks to invest in the sector. Although, the regime and its ideologues have in various forums staunchly argued that the opening of the banking and ... Read More »
Ex-boyfriend charged with throwing battery acid in woman’s face
Jarso Yohannes Adem ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn.– A Twin Cities man is charged with Felony Assault, after police say he threw battery acid in the face of a former girlfriend. Police were called to the 3700 block of Louisianna Avenue South in St. Louis Park on Tuesday and found a woman on the sidewalk suffering from chemical burns on her ... Read More »
‘despotic intellectualism’ Part I
Jordan Gebre-Medhin By Ankober The two so-called liberation fighters EPLF and TPLF ,now in power, have had formed their bases on narrow identity and ethnic based selfish ideologues of scholars from their own ethnic groups.What in Eritrea and Ethiopia is practically experienced by the suffering mass while the few (ethnics of those in hold of arms ) indulge themselves , ... Read More »