Kenya’s Minister for Internal Security George Saitoti in 2011 said, “Our territorial integrity is threatened with serious security threats of terrorism. We cannot allow this to happen at all………R...
It has been 54 days since six members of the Zone Nine blogging collective and three journalists believed to be associated with the group were arrested in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The group formed in 2012 in an effort to rep...
Amnesty International’s Write for Rights letter writing marathon is still going strong! So far, over 500,000 letters have been written on behalf of prisoners of conscience such as Miriam Lopez in Mexico, Yorm Bopha in Cam...
Last May, when Ethiopia began diverting the course of the Blue Nile as part of a project aimed at building the biggest hydroelectric dam in Africa, Egypt’s reaction was fierce. Following the June 1st report of the trilateral...
Ethiopia, Malawi and Tanzania have all been successful in reducing the rate of under-five mortality since 1990, according to a report by the A Promise Renewed campaign. Although the findings are encouraging, it does also reve...
Since the fall of Mubarak, Egypt’s political instability and internal strife have severely weakened its once hegemonic status among the East African states. This has seen its neighbours, most notably Ethiopia, begin to outrig...
“There can be no prosperity without infrastructure, but infrastructure projects don’t necessarily benefit the poor.” Those are the opening remarks of a report recently released by International Rivers entitled, Infrastru...
Water is the greatest necessity in life; however, consumption of contaminated water is one of the biggest killers in the world. Ethiopia, situated in horn of Africa, a region prone to droughts and subsequent famine, faces acute...