Ethiopia

Poverty is today defined not just in terms of material or food deprivation but also deprivation at the level of freedom, social and cultural rights.

Nestled in the turbulent Horn of Africa, Ethiopia is Africa’s oldest independent modern nation-state and second most populous. Discourse on Ethiopia has traditionally revolved around poverty, conflict, disease and famine.

As the harsh sun baked the earth, no less scorching the grass, this one Saturday in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia, from late afternoon hours into the evening was for Ethiopian Classics.

It was too good to be true. It is too bad it was true for the people of Gambella in western Ethiopia.

31st October 2014

Determining the sustainability of a developing country’s public debt is a challenge.

It’s 30 years since Michael Buerke’s harrowing report of a ‘biblical famine’ reached BBC TV screens. Following a year of cynical government inaction and silence, Bob Geldof launched a frenzied celebrity campaign to get aid to the famine-hit regions.

Famine in Ethiopia is a topic that horrifies me.

Last week, US President Barack Obamamet with a delegation of the regime in Ethiopia and said, “… the Prime Minister [Hailemariam Desalegn"> and the government is going to be organizing

Recently, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn conducted an interview in which he threatened northern neighbour, Eritrea. Desalegn warned that Ethiopia has shifted its policy towards Eritrea, and is now determined to unseat Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki by force.