Labor Day might mark the end of summer for some, but in Ethiopia, September means the springtime celebration of a new year. Called Enkutatash, the holiday enticed a crowd of African ex-pats and other curious locals to an outdoor festival at Berkeley’s Civic Center Park this Sunday. Organized by Oakland’s own Ethiopian Community and Cultural [...]
Some 1,458 Eritrean refugees from various camps in Ethiopia were resettled to the United States (US) recently, the Ethiopian State Administration for Refugees and Returnees Affairs (ARRA) disclosed. Last week, a group of 130 Eritrean refugees, after years of exile in Ethiopia, were flown to the US as part of the ongoing resettlement operation. They [...]
An employee of a radio station in Mombasa is being interrogated by anti-terror police officers over alleged links with masterminds of the recent Kampala bombings. The suspect was handed over to the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit in Nairobi on Sunday evening after spending a night in custody in the coastal town. “The suspect was with us [...]
According to a top spokesman, the Ugandan military has dispatched an additional 750 troops to Somalia to shore up the floundering African Union effort to prop up the self-proclaimed government in Mogadishu. A commander said the troops began arriving last week and will be setting up a series of small bases along the road between [...]
The long-running saga over the fate of the closed Charterhouse Bank has sucked in President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Ongoing hearings of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance heard that American Ambassador Michael Ranneberger wrote to the two principals warning against re-opening of the institution that was shut by the Central Bank of Kenya [...]
Four political parties have formed a coalition called the Ethiopian Democratic Forces Coalition. The Coalition said that the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) has done better work to win the 2010 national elections. The Oromo National Congress, All Ethiopians National Movement, Ethiopian Democratic Unity Movement and All Oromo People’s Democratic Party formed the coalition. [...]
ADDIS ABABA — Floodwaters have displaced nearly 16,000 people in north-eastern Ethiopia, the UN said Monday, weeks after thousands of others were affected in the country’s central region. “Flooding in Afar, caused by the overflow of the Logia River and the Tendaho dam … on 27 August, resulted in the displacement of approximately 15,600 people,” [...]
Rwandan President Paul Kagame rejected on Monday accusations he has failed to safeguard human rights and vowed not to let Western critics of his rule influence the path of the central African country. Kagame won 93 percent support in a presidential election last month after a campaign that opposition leaders and rights watchdogs said was [...]
An Ethiopian rebel group on Monday warned foreign oil and gas firms to stay out of the country and rejected government claims that the disputed Ogaden region was now safe for exploration companies. The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), which is fighting for the mainly ethnic-Somali Ogaden’s independence, was responding to the country’s mines and [...]
