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Galani: The Secret Coffee Shop
It was a delight to discover the secretly located Galani Coffee Warehouse in an industrial area Jackros villas. Last Saturday, I went there with my family and we were pleasantly surprised by its...
View ArticleFighting broke out between Ethiopia and Eritrea
Fighting broke out between Eritrean and Ethiopian forces on June 12, according to several media reports. Intense fighting reportedly broke out at the weekend on the Tsorena front between Eritrea and...
View Article‘Significant’ casualities in Eritrea and Ethiopia border battle
Addis Ababa (AFP) – Arch-rivals Ethiopia and Eritrea traded blame Monday for a border battle in which “significant” casualties were reported, one of the worst clashes since the end of a 1998-2000...
View ArticleAnother Think-Tank in the Making
A highly regarded official in diplomatic circles, Teferra Shiwal Kidane-kal has a reputation as a self-effacing person, comfortable out of the spotlight. He is one of the three important personalities...
View ArticleThe Oral Chronicle of the Boorana
A book offering the oral chronicle of Boorana people has just been published. Chikage Oba-Smidt’s The Oral Chronicle of the Boorana in southern Ethiopia provides original texts of the oral traditions...
View ArticleMulugeta Tafesse’s Inside Track
Belgium-based prominent Ethiopian artist Mulugeta Tafesse returns to Addis Ababa this week with a big, audacious show of vibrant, colour-drenched drawings at the LeLa Art Gallery. Called Inside Track,...
View ArticleRemembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro
Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro: African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana By Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler. 2014. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 365 pages....
View ArticleIsaias Afwerki places troops on high alert over Ethiopia border clashes
(IBTimes)-Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki is believed to have placed his troops on high alert after intense clashes broke out in the border region between his country and Ethiopia. The fighting was...
View ArticleSeifu Fantahun arrested
An Ethiopian radio and TV chat-show host, Seifu Fantahun was arrested, according to reports. Seifu will remain in custody for a third night after he was detained yesterday in connection with his report...
View ArticleEthiopia Forces Killed 400 Protesters Since November, Group Says
(Bloomberg)- Ethiopian security forces have killed more than 400 protesters and arrested tens of thousands of people since unrest began in the nation’s Oromia region in November, Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleEritrea Says It Killed 200 Ethiopian Troops
(Bloomberg)-Eritrea said more than 200 Ethiopian troops were killed in June 12 clashes on their joint border, the latest in a series on confrontations since the Horn of Africa nations separated more...
View ArticleDaniel Taye in Washington, D.C. region for an artist residency
For the month of June, Addis Ababa’s St. George Art Gallery hosts renowned painter Daniel Taye, in the New Project Studio at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, located 11 kilometers / seven miles outside...
View ArticleNo Recipient for African Leadership Award
(VOA)-Once again, there is no winner this year of a $5 million award for African leadership. The Mo Ibrahim Foundation announced Thursday that no former African leader had met the “very high bar” for...
View ArticleEthiopia downplays Eritrea’s claim it killed 200 soldiers
(Sudan Tribune)-The Ethiopian government on Thursday downplayed a claim by Eritrea that the latter has inflicted heavy losses to Ethiopian troops during the weekend clashes along their disputed border....
View ArticleUAE says the ‘war is over’ for its troops in Yemen
(DW)-The United Arab Emirates has said it is pulling its military troops out of Yemen after a 15-month intervention that claimed 80 of its soldiers’ lives. But not all the troops will be headed home....
View ArticleConfession
taken away by the flight by the primacy of our own life process we are all flies craving for honey or we are pebbles— washed but never get cleansed! let us not be distracted by the disappointment of...
View ArticleIsaias Afwerki places troops on high alert over Ethiopia border clashes
(IBTimes)-Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki is believed to have placed his troops on high alert after intense clashes broke out in the border region between his country and Ethiopia. The fighting was...
View ArticleSeifu Fantahun arrested
An Ethiopian radio and TV chat-show host, Seifu Fantahun was arrested, according to reports. Seifu will remain in custody for a third night after he was detained yesterday in connection with his report...
View ArticleEthiopia Forces Killed 400 Protesters Since November, Group Says
(Bloomberg)- Ethiopian security forces have killed more than 400 protesters and arrested tens of thousands of people since unrest began in the nation’s Oromia region in November, Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleEritrea Says It Killed 200 Ethiopian Troops
(Bloomberg)-Eritrea said more than 200 Ethiopian troops were killed in June 12 clashes on their joint border, the latest in a series on confrontations since the Horn of Africa nations separated more...
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