Demonstrations are continuing across the Middle East, interrupted only by the call for prayer when protesters fall to their knees on cheap carpets and straw mats and the riot police take a tea break. Egypt, in particular, with its scenes of unrelenting protesters staying put in Tahrir Square, playing guitars, singing, treating the injured and generally making Gandhi’s famous salt march of the 1940s look like an act of terror, captured the imagination of an international media and audience more familiar with the stereotype of Muslim youth blowing themselves and others up. More on In search of an African revolution

In 1884, the Berlin Conference was convened by the European imperial powers to carve out colonial territories in Africa. It was called the “Scramble for Africa”.

In 2009, another Berlin Conference was convened by a high level group of diplomats (referring to themselves as the “partners”) from the U.S. and several European countries to hammer out an “agreement” on what to do (and not do) in the Horn of Africa.
Out of touch in the Horn of Africa?

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Protests swell at Tahrir Square
A Declaration in Defense of Human Rights in Ethiopia

Egypt’s ‘final push’ protests begin
Preparations from regime change in Ethiopia underway
Egypt’s and General Tsadkan’s lesson to Ethiopian Generals

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Hey, Mubarak and Meles, Do you hear me

‘Total mayhem’: Mubarak supporters, protesters clash in Egypt