Scuffles break out in Ethiopia as bereaved families accuse rescue workers of delays after rubbish collapse kills scores. BY AL JAZEERA Bereaved families scuffled with rescue workers on Tuesday at a dump (aka ‘Koshe’) in the Ethiopian capital where the collapse of a mountain of rubbish killed at least 113 people on Saturday. Relatives pushed and […]
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Executive Summary By Frederic Mousseau | Oakland Institute, By In 2016, food crisis in Ethiopia once again topped the international headlines, with 18 million people reportedly requiring food assistance for survival. The food crisis has been widely attributed to climatic events resulting from El Niño, and presented as an exogenous incident in Ethiopia’s acclaimed economic […]
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By Prof. Abraham Kidane, The Millennium Development Goals Agenda (MDGs) that was heralded by the United Nations in year 2000 formally ends in December 2015, and will be succeeded by the Sustainable Development Goals Agenda (SDGs) beginning January 1, 2016. As you know, development is a dynamic process that should not have a beginning and […]
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By Ruadhán Mac Cormaic | for The Irish Times, Ethiopia is facing its worst drought in decades, with more than eight million people already in need of food assistance as a result of weather conditions that are set to worsen, the aid agency Goal has warned. The failure of two consecutive rainy seasons, including the […]
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By Jawar Mohammed, Just a couple months ago, Western leaders and media outlets were fascinated with Ethiopia’s ‘miraculous’ economic growth. From Bill Gates to Obama, and everyone else in between, they were convinced and tried to persuade others that Ethiopia had put that sad history of famine behind itself and emerged as the fastest growing […]
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By Alemayehu G. Mariam, Does the Black Horseman ride in Ethiopia? No, famine rides a light train in Ethiopia! In February 2014, I wrote a commentary entitled “A Glimpse of the Creeping Famine in Ethiopia” based on an NBC investigative report in the same month on the creeping famine in Ethiopia. NBC reported:
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By Thomas C Mountain, THE Obama administration must be held responsible for a series of failed or nearly failed states on the African continent. Recently Burundi has been in the news but it could just as easily be Nigeria, Mali or the Central African Republic. Whether the calamities that have befallen these neocolonialist constructions have been intentional […]
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ብ ወዲ ኣበይቲ፡ በሉ ከምቲ ልሙድ፣ ሕሶት ሓለፍትኹም ስምዑ፡ ሕሶት ጥራሕ ዘይኮነስ ንዛ ዓዲ መርዚ ተኺሎምላ ከይኸዱ ዘስግእ ኣመለኻኸተኦም እውን ተዓዘቡ፡ ዋይ ዓደይ! ሓደ ዝመቸዎም ዝመስሉ ፅጉብ ሓላፊ ክልልና ኣብ መስኮት ቶግ ቲቪ ቀሪቦም ኣብ ትሕቲ መስመር ድኽነት ዘሎ ትግራዋይ 26 ሚእታዊ እዩ ኢሎም፡፡ ቢሮኦም ኣብ ዝሓለፈ ዓመት ኣብ ትሕቲ መስመር ድኽነት ዘሎ ህዝቢ ትግራይ […]
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