Archives for July 2015
Alon Ben-Meir, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Affairs, NYU, 07/30/2015, The Huffington Post The pending order to demolish the small Palestinian village of Susiya in the southern Judean Mountains in the occupied West Bank represents the most blatant v …
Dear Obama: Corruption Isn’t Just Africa’s Problem Published: July 30, 2015
BY HOWARD W. FRENCH, 30 JULY 2015, FOREIGN POLICY What the U.S. president didn’t say in his big Nairobi speech. For an American president celebrated by many of his listeners as a returning native son, Barack Obama’s recent speech in a Nairobi stadium w …
Obama, on China’s Turf, Presents U.S. as a Better Partner for Africa Published: July 30, 2015
By PETER BAKER, 29 JULY 2015, THE NEW YORK TIMES President Obama toured the Faffa Foods factory in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Tuesday. During his visit to Africa, Mr. Obama has essentially made the argument that Washington offers a better, more empoweri …
UN paid millions to Russian aviation firm since learning of sex attack on girl Published: July 30, 2015
Paul Lewis in Washington, Oliver Laughhland in New York and Roger Hamilton-Martin in London, Thursday 30 July 2015, The Guardian (US) Exclusive: Documents reveal United Nations unit uncovered possible ‘culture of sexual exploitation and abuse’ after 20 …
Hunter who killed Cecil the lion blames Zimbabwean guides Published: July 30, 2015
29 JUL 2015, Mail & Guardian (South Africa) James Palmer, the US dentist who shot and killed Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe, blamed his guides on Tuesday for the death of the big cat. The US hunter who killed a Zimbabwean lion wearing a tracking colla …
Ethiopia in fetters, but flourishing Published: July 30, 2015
BY KATRINA MANSON, 30 JULY 2015, Business Day (South Africa) WHILE Ethiopia was only recently ignominious for the “biblical famine” that afflicted millions in 1984, today it delivers development like no other country in Africa. The World Bank forecasts …
Africa’s Next Hegemon: Behind Ethiopia’s Power Plays Published: July 29, 2015
By Harry Verhoeven, 12 April 2015, Foreign Affairs In 1991, as the Cold War drew to an end, the only African country that had never been colonized by European imperialists was but a pale reflection of the Great Ethiopia that generations of the kingdom’ …
How Slavery’s Legacy Affects the Mental Health of Black Americans Published: July 29, 2015
By Alma Carten, 27 JULY 2015, The New Repbulic In July 22, in announcing the federal indictment of Charleston killer Dylann Roof, Attorney General Loretta Lynch commentedthat the expression of forgiveness offered by the victims’ families is “an incredi …
A RENEGADE TRAWLER, HUNTED FOR 10,000 MILES BY VIGILANTE Published: July 29, 2015
By IAN URBINA, 28 JULY 2015, THE NEW YORK TIMES For 110 days and across two seas and three oceans, crews stalked a fugitive fishing ship considered the world’s most notorious poacher. ABOARD THE BOB BARKER, in the South Atlantic — As the Thunder, a tra …
US dentist accused of killing Cecil the lion ‘upset’ as hunter becomes hunted Published: July 29, 2015
Jessica Glenza in New York,Ashiufa Kassam in Madrid and David Smith, Africa correspondent, Tuesday 28 July 2015, The Guardian (UK) As Zimbabwean police say he faces poaching charges, Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer faces furious criticism on social med …