Meles Zenawi

Ethiopia: Revenue Authority Registers Deficit

Posted to the web 18 November 2008 The Revenue and Customs Authority (RCuA) has fallen short of meeting its target of collecting 2.5 billion Br monthly in the first quarter of the current fiscal year. RCuA had set an ambitious...

Q+A-Why should the world care about Somalia?

Source: Reuters Nov 17 (Reuters) - Daily headlines from Somalia of violence, refugees and piracy may seem like a blur to the outside world. But with Islamist insurgents knocking on the door of the capital Mogadishu ...

Report: Top 25 Hosts in Nigeria

November 17, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- An Ethiopian review and opinion journal, The Ethiopian Review, published on Friday a list of the top 25 web hosting companies "leading the pack in Nigeria" based on ranking...

Ethiopia elders urge OLF rebels to negotiate

Source: Reuters By Tsegaye Tadesse ADDIS ABABA, Nov 15 (Reuters) - An Ethiopian rebel group must listen to its people and start talks with the government to end a 15-year insurgency in the Horn of Africa nation, ...

Somali MPs ‘just want to hang around Nairobi’

A few weeks ago, Nairobi felt a little bit like Baidoa, the Somali town northwest of Mogadishu where the country’s parliament meets. This is because virtually all of Somalia’s 275 MPs were in town for a summit of the...

Islamists Impose Sharia Law on Somali Port Town

Islamist insurgents have moved to impose Sharia law in a key Somali port town they seized Wednesday. Residents of Merka were ordered Thursday to shut down their businesses during Muslim prayer times. An insurgent commander,...

Ethiopian PM: China honors promises

ADDIS ABABA, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said that China is a country that honors its promises in cooperation with African countries. He made the statement during Chinese top legislator Wu...

Gov't Arrests Rebel Suspects, Tightens Security

The Joint Taskforce of National Intelligence Security Service and the Federal Police said it had arrested more than a dozen leaders of the rebel Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) accusing them of plotting terrorist attacks and...

Somalia: Over 100 Somali MPs claim they are stranded in Kenyan capital

Somalia: Over 100 Somali MPs claim they are stranded in Kenyan capital Tue. November 11, 2008 06:05 am. - (SomaliNet) Saying the organizers of a recent regional conference in Kenyan capita Nairobi, failed to pay for their...

Nigeria: German President Profers Solution to Financial Crisis

President Horst Kohler of Germany has said the global financial crisis was caused by individuals but added that it presents an opportunity for a new regulatory framework which makes capital the servant and not master.

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