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- WITNESS: Battling to Borrow Money in Sanctions-Hit Sudan
Andrew Heavens is a reporter and photographer who has worked with Reuters since 2005, from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and now Khartoum, Sudan. His African career followed 10 years of reporting for newspapers in Britain and the United States. In the following
- WITNESS: Battling to borrow money in sanctions-hit Sudan
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Reuters - Andrew Heavens is a reporter and photographer who has worked with Reuters since 2005, from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and now Khartoum, Sudan. His African career followed 10 years of reporting for newspapers in Britain and the United States. In the following story, he recounts his experience of U.S. economic sanctions on the country whose president Omar Hassan al-Bashir is accused of masterminding human rights abuses in Darfur.
- Ethiopia criticizes HRW over terrorism report
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) -- Ethiopia has criticized the Human Rights Watch over its report that the country's draft anti-terrorism law would violate human rights. HRW's so-called analysis is replete with harsh generalizations, Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry said
- INTERVIEW-U.S. will urge Ethiopia to stay out of Somalia
NAIROBI, July 4 (Reuters) - The United States will encourage Ethiopia not to return to Somalia as it would be against the interests of both Horn of African nations, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson said on Saturday.
- Ethiopian parliament to vote against defence budget
Parliament discussed on Thursday [2 July], among many issues, regarding the 2009-2010 budget, a motion to cut back the defence budget by a significant margin. Parliament is expected to vote on the motion before it goes on recess. The motion was
- New masters hold the key to Africa's pace of recovery
By William Wallis A new aphorism has emerged in Addis Ababa to describe Africa's rapidly shifting relations with the outside world. Washington, so it goes, is in charge of corralling the western donors. Europe provides the money. The Chinese walk off
- Ethiopian man charged with shackling girl for 18 years
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Hundreds of women have rallied to demand the death penalty for a man who allegedly shackled a girl with dogs for 18 years and abused her, the Ethiopian News Agency reported yesterday. The unnamed suspect from Adama - a town 63
- Ethiopian man shackles girl with dogs
Hundreds of women have rallied to demand the death penalty for a man who shackled a girl with dogs for 18 years and abused her, the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reports. The unnamed suspect from Adama - a town 100 kilometres east of the capital Addis
- Ethiopia Downplays Somali Rebel Threat
Ethiopia has dismissed a declaration of war by an official of a radical rebel group in neighboring Somalia, saying it appears to be an empty threat. But, African leaders at a summit in Libya are seriously concerned by reports that foreign Islamic
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