Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of Alemayehu Mahtemework, the publisher and deputy editor of the entertainment monthly Enku, on the night of 2 May in Addis Ababa, and the seizure of 10,000 copies of its latest issue. More on Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns editor’s arrest in Ethiopia
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Farmers in Ethiopia are better off now than they were four years ago, in part due to better-than-average rains and rising grain prices globally. But there’s another reason: Africa’s largest beneficiary of foreign aid has shifted from food aid to cash assistance. More on Ethiopia: A model of African food aid is now in trouble
Somalia: Somalia Dictator Yusuf said Monday that six pirates in French custody for allegedly holding the crew of a yacht hostage are likely from his home region in the Horn of Africa country.
Ahmed, who was in Paris for meetings with President Nicolas Sarkozy and other top French officials, did not confirm a French news report that four of the pirates were members of his extended family, or clan. More on Was the Woyanne backed government involved with the piracy in Somalia
By Abdi Sheikh and Abdi Mohamed
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A young man was killed when thousands of Somalis protested in Mogadishu on Monday over food traders’ refusal to take old currency notes blamed for stoking spiralling inflation, witnesses said.
A shopkeeper shot the man dead after dozens of demonstrators wielding clubs and stones broke into his store. Locals said police wounded a teenage boy while trying to disperse hundreds of angry residents. More on Mogadishu rocked by food demonstrations
By Abdulahi Sheekh , African News Journal / May 04, 2008
“Too may people are dying and instead of agreeing not to go to war to stop the carnage in the Horn of Africa,” Congressman Donald Payne, the Chair of Subcommittee of Africa and Global Health said in his characteristic rich voice laced with passion and concern. More on Congressmen Payne and Ellison paid tribute to myriads of political chaos and calm in the Horn of Africa
