ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — A spokesman for Ethiopia’s prime minister is downplaying suggestions by Egyptian politicians that Egypt should sabotage Ethiopia’s new Nile River dam. Political leaders in Egypt on Monday proposed carrying out hostile acts against Ethiopia. Egypt, which is dependent on the Nile, fears a diminished flow. Getachew Reda, a spokesman for Ethiopian...
UNITED NATIONS, June 4 (Xinhua)- The UN Security Council, while keeping an eyeon preparations for the upcoming Geneva conference on Syria, is expected to discussSomalia, conflict prevention and natural resources and the prevention of sexualviolence in conflict, the British ambassador, the council president for June, said onTuesday. Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, London’s envoy to UN Headquarters, told reportershere the Syrian situation remains high on the list of topics member of the 15-nationpanel discuss between themselves in closed-door sessions. To follow up on the outcome of the recent London Conference on Somalia, the Britishminister for Africa, Mark Simmonds, was expected to attend a session on Somalia onThursday when UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson will brief the council, hesaid. An open debate on Conflict Prevention and Natural Resources was slated for June 19to highlight how transparent management of extractive industries can prevent conflict,fight corruption, protect human rights and promote sustainable development, LyallGrant said. Eliasson, World Bank Managing Director Caroline Anstey and Africa Progress PanelChair Kofi Annan, will brief by video from Geneva, the ambassador said. Another open meeting was scheduled for June 24 on the Prevention of SexualViolence in Conflict, chaired by British Foreign Secretary William Hague, Lyall Grantsaid. The focus of the session was to be on accountability for crimes of sexual violence onthe national level and how the UN can better support states in holding perpetrators toaccount, he said. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his Special Representativeon Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Hawa Bangura were to brief. Source: Xinhua
By Ruth Halkon, Reporter Six fire engines and around 35 firefighters and officers were called to a fire at a Somali community centre on Coppetts Road, Muswell Hill in the early hours of this morning. The whole two storey building, home to the Somali Bravanese Welfare Association, was damaged by the fire and it also suffered...
Jim Armitage Eskinder Nega, 45, jailed for 18 years for criticising the government, remains resolute An Ethiopian journalist who was jailed for almost two decades after publishing a series of articles calling for democratic reforms has penned a letter from prison in which he attacks the “human rights crisis” unfolding in Ethiopia and describes the...
Ramola Talwar Badam ABU DHABI // Arab countries were urged yesterday to work together to stamp out Somali piracy. “There is a need for a unified Arab strategy and approach,” said Navy Col Mahmoud Al Zarooni. He suggested establishing a regional coordination centre to share vital information, using satellites to track pirate vessels and evolving...
BY ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS AP LEGAL AFFAIRS WRITER COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Torture victim Abukar Hassan Ahmed was living in London when he decided several years ago to search again for the man he says crippled him during interrogations in Somalia in the 1980s. It took just a half-hour Internet search in 2005 to locate the former...
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By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON, June 4 (Reuters) – Some call it neurological diversity, others see it as autism’s fight back. People diagnosed as “on the spectrum” are suddenly in demand by employers seeking a competitive advantage from autistic workers more used to being considered disabled than special. Expressing a belief that...
CAIRO (AFP) – An aide to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has apologised after she failed to inform politicians holding talks with the president that they were live on air, allowing viewers to watch them cook up plans to sabotage a dam in Ethiopia. “Due to the importance of the topic it was decided at the...
By Mohamed Sheikh Nor in Mogadishu Al-Shebab fighters in Somalia on Sunday publicly displayed two soldiers they claim are Kenyans, captured during skirmishes that left five people dead last month after a cross-border attack. Al-Shebab fighters displayed the two prisoners to thousands of people gathered in southern Somali town of Jilib. The Islamists used vehicles mounted...