Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) — Ethiopia needs emergency aid to feed 5.2 million people this year, the government said, appealing for 642,983 metric tons of food from foreign donors.
The Horn of Africa nation has already received confirmed pledges for 396,212 tons of food and is still seeking 246,771 tons of aid valued at $188 million, the government and aid agencies said in a report e-mailed to reporters late yesterday in the capital, Addis Ababa. More on Woyanne Appeals for Aid to Feed 5.2 Million People
International Criminal Court judges have reversed a ruling that there is insufficient proof to charge Sudan’s president with genocide in Darfur.
A warrant was issued last year against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for crimes against humanity and war crimes. More on Darfur crimes: Hague reverses Bashir genocide ruling
In his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on May 21, 2009, Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, set a broad agenda for Afghanistan from which Senator Corker interpreted that Mullen was calling for “nation-building”. More on ‘Time for a new Somalia policy’
Since the dawn of African independence from colonialism in the early 1960s, African liberation leaders and founding fathers qua dictators, military junta and “new breed” leaders have sought to justify the one-man, one-party state — and avoid genuine multiparty democracy — by fabricating a blend of self-serving arguments which converge on the notion that in Africa there is a democracy before democracy. More on The Democracy Before Democracy in Africa
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Oh! What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive,” said Sir Walter Scott, the novelist and poet. Is there “famine” in Ethiopia, or not? Are large numbers of people “starving” there, or not? Is convulsive hunger a daily reality for the majority of Ethiopians, or not? More on Ethiopia’s “silently” creeping famine
On Wednesday, December 23, 2009, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) slapped an arms embargo on Issayas Afewarki’s regime and imposed targeted sanctions for allegedly aiding Somali rebels and threatening neighbouring Djibouti. More on Issayas Afewarki – Eritrea’s Lonely Wolf
Officials have launched a search for Eritrea’s national football team after the players reportedly failed to return home following a tournament in Kenya.
The Eritreans were knocked out of the Cecafa competition for East and Central African nations last week. More on Eritrea football team ‘absconds’ in Kenya
