German Chancellor Angela Merkel will bring up human rights on her trip to Ethiopia today, the AP news agency is reporting. She is on the third leg of her African tour which has seen her visit Mali...
Angela Merkel's three-day Africa tour answers concerns in Germany over immigration. The Chancellor wants to show support for efforts to reduce departures - through private sector investment in the...
A tale of two airlines: Ethiopian Airlines and Ghana Airways Anis Haffar The in-flight magazine of Ethiopian Airlines – Selamta – adorned the cover page of its Sept/Oct 2015 issue with a picture...
It began with blips on a radar screen, 12 miles off the Libyan coast. As the rescuers approached, they found overloaded wooden vessels and rafts that evoked scenes of the slave trade. Hundreds of...
The Addis Ababa light rail that officially began its services in November 2015. Photo Anadolu Agen Ethiopia’s economy is expected to overtake Kenya’s this year, buoyed by massive government...
Kenya's surprise decision to nominate the Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed for the job of African Union (AU) Commission chairperson will test the lobbying skills of the country's diplomats and its...
The UN's human rights high commissioner (OHCHR) has repeated a demand that the Ethiopian government allow his office access to the protest-hit areas of the country. This comes after a week of...
The size of the Ghanaian economy (including oil) shrunk from US$38.5 billion recorded in 2014 to US$36.7 billion in 2015, a difference of $1.8billion, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has...
Some people run for cover when he appeared in the village square, elegantly dressed in full military attire. The last time these people checked, it was a certain military attired Caucasian-Negro in...
A U. S. citizen was killed and foreign-owned factories and equipment damaged during a wave of protests over land and political rights in Ethiopia this week. The U.S. Embassy said the American woman...
Ethiopia and Djibouti have launched the first fully electrified cross-border railway line in Africa. It links Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, to the Red Sea port of Djibouti - a stretch of more than...
When society invest in educating a kin, the kin was not privileged to look down on the society but to revamp and uplift the societal practices for techno-socio-economic liberation. According to Akan...
Amnesty International has accused the world's wealthiest nations of shirking responsibility towards refugees, saying they host the fewest and do the least. Ten countries which account for just 2.5%...
Enough of the CIA’s “Enough Project” in Africa. With Hollywood superstar George Clooney as it’s talking head, EP, as it is known, was founded by senior US Intel “spook” Gayle Smith,...
Protests broke out in some areas of Ethiopia's Oromiya region on Monday, a day after dozens of people were killed in a stampede at a religious festival sparked by a bid by police to quell...
Fifty-two people were killed and many more injured in Ethiopia’s Oromia region during a protest at a religious festival, the government says. Some died in a stampede after police employed tear gas,...
Regulatory reforms and the ease of doing business matter for long term economic growth and prosperity in Ghana, Mr Jim McAlpine, Country Director of United Kingdom's Department for International...
Many people have been killed and injured in Ethiopia’s Oromia region after security forces fired on a major protest, witnesses say. Some died in a panicked stampede after troops opened fire, the...
In Paleoanthropology, the recent Afro origin of modern humans, also called the *"Out of Africa(OOA) theory"*, argues that the human race started from Africa. People migrated to other parts of the...
By Larweh Therson-Cofie Should a statue of an important person or a hero be the subject of a row in a country – in a way that makes pulling down of the object a necessity? The answer is yes or no....
