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Yemen: The Graveyard of the Obama Doctrine

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Samuel Oakford and Peter Salisbury | 23 september 2016 | The Atlantic The human costs of facilitating Saudi Arabia’s proxy war This past Tuesday, President Barack Obama delivered his final speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Though he tried to sound optimistic, he couldn’t help but strike a rueful tone. Gone was the global media darling … [Read more...] about Yemen: The Graveyard of the Obama Doctrine

Ethiopian Prime Minister blames US-based government dissenters for protests

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22 Sep 2016 | News 24/Mail & Guardian “This is not the capacity of the man himself. It’s something which has been orchestrated by someone else from outside,” Hailemariam was quoted saying. Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has blamed the United States-based “dissenters” for being behind Olympic medallist Feyisa Lilesa’s protest at the Rio de Janeiro Games, … [Read more...] about Ethiopian Prime Minister blames US-based government dissenters for protests

How African governments are increasingly clamping down on the internet to control their citizenry

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William Gumede | 22 Sep 2016 | Mail & Guardian African governments are increasingly clamping down on the internet, especially social media in an attempt to silence democratic opposition. African governments are  increasingly clamping down on the internet, especially social media, as well as messaging applications, in an attempt to silence democratic opposition, civil … [Read more...] about How African governments are increasingly clamping down on the internet to control their citizenry

Half a dozen candidates vie for top WHO job, including Ethiopia’s foreign minister

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Agency Staff  | September 23 2016 | Business Day GENEVA — Six candidates are in the running to take over the helm of the World Health Organisation (WHO), including Ethiopia’s foreign minister, who is bidding to be the first African to hold the position, the UN agency said Friday. The WHO’s 194 member states had until the end of the day on Thursday to propose … [Read more...] about Half a dozen candidates vie for top WHO job, including Ethiopia’s foreign minister

Why thousands of asylum-seekers are fleeing Eritrea and risking their lives in the Mediterranean

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Gaim Kibreab | May 5, 2015 | The Conversation We have become accustomed to headlines about migrants in the Mediterranean. Most recently it was reported that the Italian authorities rescued nearly 7,000 migrants off the coast of Libya over one weekend. Often, tragically, we read instead of thousands drowning. Last year more than 170,000 migrants arrived by … [Read more...] about Why thousands of asylum-seekers are fleeing Eritrea and risking their lives in the Mediterranean

Eritrean accused of people-smuggling to face second trial in Italy

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Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo and Patrick Kingsley | Wednesday 21 September 2016 | The Guardian Prosecutors say Medhanie Berhe, 29, is in fact Medhanie Mered, a notorious 35-year-old people-smuggler An Eritrean refugee accused of being the most influential people-smuggler in north Africa will face a second trial in Italy despite the failure of prosecutors to … [Read more...] about Eritrean accused of people-smuggling to face second trial in Italy

£100m of UK aid budget to be spent controlling immigration from Africa

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Rowena Mason Deputy political editor | Tuesday 20 September 2016 | the Guardian Theresa May uses UN speech to outline plans to return Somali refugees and stop people trying to cross Mediterranean More than £100m of the UK aid budget will be spent on returning Somali refugees to the country they fled and encouraging people escaping war zones not to cross the … [Read more...] about £100m of UK aid budget to be spent controlling immigration from Africa

Speaking truth to power: The killing of Dag Hammarskjöld and the cover-up

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Henning Melber and Susan Williams | 20 Sep 2016 | The Conversation Dag Hammarskjöld, as second Secretary-General, sought to shape the UN as an organisation devoted to peace. Fifty-five years ago, shortly after midnight on 18 September 1961, an aircraft crashed on its approach to Ndola airport in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia, which is now Zambia. On board … [Read more...] about Speaking truth to power: The killing of Dag Hammarskjöld and the cover-up

Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan sign final contracts on Nile dam studies

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Ahram Online | Tuesday 20 Sep 2016  Egypt's irrigation minister hailed Tuesday’s contracts as 'historic' Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have signed the final contracts for the long-awaited technical studies on the impact on downstream countries of a giant dam that Addis Ababa is building, Egypt’s state news agency MENA reported. The signing that took place in Sudan’s … [Read more...] about Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan sign final contracts on Nile dam studies