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Despite of widespread poverty and illiteracy African countries are more interested in battles and genocides. If there is possibility of an Islamist group acquiring political power in a country its non-Islamic neighbour will be on the tenterhooks. The..
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Ethiopia’s Hamer people, a long isolated, pastoral warrior tribe, are increasingly opening up to tourists, a move some fear could endanger age-old traditions with...
made popular Jul 6 2009
Many women living in poverty in Ethiopia, India and Kenya, are excluded from government lending schemes, or face prejudice in banking systems. ActionAid’s...
made popular Jun 19 2009
AP, Lewisburg
An economics professor at a Pennsylvania university said Saturday he supports efforts to spread democracy in his native Ethiopia, but denied backing an alleged coup...
made popular Apr 25 2009
AP, Nairobi
An Ethiopian government spokesman says police have arrested 35 people suspected of attempting to overthrow the government.
made popular Apr 25 2009
AP, Nairobi
Sudan’s president made his sixth foreign trip since his indictment on charges of war crimes in Darfur, traveling Tuesday to Ethiopia despite the international...
made popular Apr 21 2009
AP, Addis Ababa
An Ethiopian official says Sudan’s president is in Ethiopia for talks but will not face arrest despite a warrant for genocide.
made popular Apr 21 2009
AP, Badhaasaa
A cattle-herding tribe in southern Ethiopia has crowned a new king in a secret ceremony considered so sacred that the Borena people believe it has the power to kill...
made popular Mar 4 2009
AP, Addis Ababa
A suicide bomber who attacked an African Union peacekeeping base in the Somali capital was a local who regularly delivered supplies to the soldiers inside, an official...
made popular Feb 23 2009
AP, New York
Prosecutors have accused a Nigerian man of trying to swindle nearly $27 million from an account in New York held by Ethiopia’s central bank.
made popular Feb 21 2009
AP, Stockholm
Meseret Defar of Ethiopia has broken the women’s 5,000-meter indoor world record by more than three seconds at the GE Gala meet.
made popular Feb 18 2009
AP, Addis Ababa
Ethiopian police say they have arrested a suspect in the death of a young American diplomat.
made popular Feb 11 2009
AP, Addis Ababa
A U.S. Embassy spokesman says an American diplomat has been found dead in his home in the Ethiopian capital.
made popular Feb 5 2009
AP, Addis Ababa
Libya’s leader says he will work to end the crisis in Darfur in his new role as African Union chairman.
made popular Feb 4 2009
AP, Addis Ababa
Zimbabwe’s president says he’s committed to forming a national unity government with the opposition.
made popular Feb 3 2009
AP, Addis Ababa
The U.N. chief said Monday that Zimbabwe’s newly forged national unity government is an “imperfect” solution, and that it can only resolve the...
made popular Feb 2 2009
AP, Addis Ababa
A joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force will not leave a town in southern Darfur as Sudan has requested so that it can oust rebels who have seized the...
made popular Feb 2 2009
AP, Addis Ababa
Moammar Gadhafi of Libya was elected Monday as leader of the African Union, a position long sought by the eccentric dictator pushing his oil-rich nation into the...
made popular Feb 2 2009
AP, Addis Ababa
A senior Egyptian diplomat says Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has been elected to lead the African Union.
made popular Feb 2 2009
AP, Addis Ababa
Sudanese officials have asked international peacekeepers to leave a town in Darfur, the U.N. and Sudanese officials said Sunday. The challenge to the fragile...
made popular Feb 1 2009
AP, Addis Ababa
Somalia’s new president called for a united front against violent extremists and signaled his intent to try to bring together the country’s feuding Islamic...
made popular Feb 1 2009
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The Extremist forces in Somalia have warned the International peacekeeping forces that they would try to kill any peacekeepers that would be deployed in Somalia.
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Islamist militias and government forces in Somalia are at loggerheads and as the fighting goes fiercer, civil war seems inevitable. Clashes have ignited the region from...
made popular Dec 10 2006
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