By Amanuel Biedemariam, ACCORDING to the Wall Street Journal, “China’s annual trade with Africa is about $200 billion, about twice the volume of U.S.-Africa trade.” China has been investing on Africa’s infrastructures, building schools, hospitals, manufacturing-facilities, establishing markets, selling goods while unconditionally buying material and natural resources from Africa for some time now. China is […]
Continue ReadingBy Diane Bell, THE day after San Diego runner Meb Keflezighi won the Boston Marathon this year, he a received a congratulatory call from President Barack Obama, who ended, “We’ll be in touch.” “I probably won’t hear from him,” said Keflezighi. Not only did he hear back, he sat at the table with President and First […]
Continue ReadingBy Alemayehu G Mariam, PRESIDENT Obama offered [the above] comments to blunt Congressional criticism following an inspector general’s report which concluded that the CIA improperly scanned the computers of Senate staffers looking into allegations of enhanced interrogation techniques by that agency. He cautioned Americans “not to feel too sanctimonious in retrospect about the tough job that […]
Continue ReadingBy Berhane Weldu, A SUMMIT has been called by President Barack Obama, the 44th president of the USA, to be held in August 2014 for dialogue with most African leaders leaving some out of the summit Eritrea being one. China and Japan have had previously conducted such a gathering with no exclusion; inclusive of all African […]
Continue ReadingBy Alemayehu G. Mariam, THE African Circus is coming to town. It is officially called “U.S-Africa Leadership Summit” (not Ringling African Brothers). It is scheduled to be held on August 5-6 in Washington D.C. The theme of the “Summit” is “Investing in the Next Generation”. According to the pre-Summit hype, in the first ever “U.S.-Africa […]
Continue ReadingBy Samuel Mahaffy (Ph.D), THE singular exclusion of Eritrea from the invitation of African leaders to participate in the U.S. Africa Leaders Summit in Washington D.C. is misguided, inappropriate and does not serve the cause of peace and prosperity in the Horn of Africa. The Summit, called by President Obama to be held in August 2014, […]
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