Bashir of SudanBy ARGAW ASHINE in Addis Ababa , Posted Friday, October 29 2010 at 19:12 The regional bloc Igad meeting that was to take place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia over the weekend, has been postponed. The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development ministerial and heads of state meeting was initially scheduled for Nairobi, but was shifted over the controversy surrounding the ... Read More »
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Ethiopia Plans to Lease Belgium-Sized Land Area for Cash Crops
Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) — Ethiopia will lease a land area about the size of Belgium to private investors for growing rice, cotton and other crops aimed at generating foreign-exchange, an Agriculture Ministry official said. The Horn of Africa nation plans to rent out 3 million hectares (5 million acres) of farmland over the next five years, Abera Deressa, minister of ... Read More »
Music for a Coup
Music does not exist autonomously of other social, economic and political institutions. Music may still be able to change the world as well as reflecting it, but, when we talk of music’s politics, we are not just talking of the way it articulates ideas and emotion. We are also talking of the politics that shape it. (Street 2001: 254) In ... Read More »
Donors never see their money being abused
By Ankober, Debre Birhan Blogspot’s staff writer Hello! Ask me what initiated me to paint this piece. It is the catch talk of the week- Abuse of aid in Ethiopia by the EPRDF regime. The rigorous interview based investigation that Human Rights Watch did in Ethiopia lightened the shaded realities of aid and its consequences in rhetoric of developmental democracy. ... Read More »
Underwriting repression: The case for tougher monitoring when we give aid Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/10/20/f-ethiopia-aid.html#ix
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 | 10:05 AM ETComments0Recommend0 By Jennifer Clibbon, CBC News The international watchdog Human Rights Watch has published a report today that is an embarrassing look at the way billions of dollars in well-intentioned international aid to Ethiopia is too often being used by the government there as “political weapons to control the population, punish ... Read More »
Ethiopia: Donor Aid Supports Repression
Contributors Should Review Development Programs, Monitor Use of Funds OCTOBER 19, 2010 (London) – The Ethiopian government is using development aid to suppress political dissent by conditioning access to essential government programs on support for the ruling party, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Human Rights Watch urged foreign donors to ensure that their aid is used ... Read More »
Adoptions from Ethiopia rise, bucking global trend
Editors Note: hmmmmmmmmm Adoption! By DAVID CRARY (AP) – 12 hours ago NEW YORK — As the overall number of international adoptions by Americans plummets, one country — Ethiopia — is emphatically bucking the trend, sending record numbers of children to the U.S. while winning praise for improving orphans’ prospects at home. It’s a remarkable, little-publicized trend, unfolding in an ... Read More »
EPRDF to begin a new campaign on the Diaspora, seeks more aid from Donors
By Ankober With the ambition of successfully undertaking the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP) the Ethiopian government outlined that it needs over a trillion birr to fully realize it within five years from now. Main sources identified are: 1. Foreign development partners/donors 2. Local sources-taxation 3. Diaspora ‘Though the Plan is bright and admirable, Meles’ ambitions of ‘Ethiopia’s Renaissance and ... Read More »