Djibouti gets new Prime Minister in ‘cosmetic’ cabinet reshuffle
* Guelleh reshuffles his cabinet in wake of rioting in strategic Horn of Africa nation over elections marred by widespread fraud. DJIBOUTI – Djibouti’s new prime minister took office on Monday after President Ismail Omar Guelleh reshuffled his cabinet in the wake of rioting in the strategic Horn of Africa nation over elections marred by … Read more
Britain’s Christmas gift for the Horn of Africa
In a press release yesterday, Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell announced the ‘British-funded food supplies and lifesaving medicines [that] will arrive in drought zones in the Horn of Africa over the Christmas period’. He should have added the following, into the statement: ‘Fellow Britons. Consume and enjoy in the Christmas season with clean conscience. You, via … Read more
Wikileaks | Top US diplomat: ‘Time to stop hating Ethiopia’
A leaked Cable of US Embassy Addis Ababa discloses a passionate plea of the then Acting Ambassador Vicki Huddleston for stronger US – Ethiopia relation. In the Cable, dated Nov. 11, 2006 and classified as ‘Confidential’, Amb. Huddleston begins saying: As I prepare to turn over my responsibilities to my good friend and respected colleague, … Read more
[Updated] Famine to be declared in Somalia
The United Nations is poised to declare a famine in parts of Somalia, the US-based media CBC reported about 12 hours ago. It claimed: The UN has not yet declared the current food crisis a famine, but Brian Stewart, a distinguished senior fellow at the Munk School for Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, … Read more
David Shinn: Ethiopians ain’t Raged enough to Revolt
Former US Ambassador to Ethiopia David H. Shinn claimed the revolts in Northern African and Middle East, dubbed ‘Arab Spring’, are unlikely to spread into the Horn of Africa. David Shinn made the remark in his article titled, ‘Revolutionary winds from North to South of the Sahara: Wishful thinking?‘, published on EastAfricanForum.net last Monday – … Read more
ERITREA: The Siege State [ICG Report]
The Brussels based International Crisis Group(ICG) released analyses of the Eritrean State in its African Report N°163 of Sept 21/2010. The 37 pages report, titled ‘ERITREA: THE SIEGE STATE’, is fairly informative of the worrisome political and socio-economic conditions and the regimes destabilizing role in the region. However, some level of naiveté is evident in … Read more
Ethiopia’s Women Vs. Genital Mutilation
IRIN Africa | ETHIOPIA: Empowering women to fight FGM/C | Horn of Africa | Ethiopia | Children Gender Issues Health & Nutrition | Feature. ETHIOPIA: Empowering women to fight FGM/C Photo: UNICEF Egypt/Pirozzi 2005 Longer-term effects of FGM include infections of the urinary and reproductive tracts, infertility and obstetric complications (file photo) AWASH, 19 August … Read more
