Nightmares help prepare our brains to handle stressful situations, according to a small US government-funded study. Researchers from Switzerland and the US subjected 18 people to a bizarre experiment: they were fitted with electrodes to monitor their brain activity at night, and they were woken multiple times to answer interview questions, such as: ‘Did you dream?...
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Ethiopian Defense Minister Opposes Premier’s Party Merger Plan
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is facing opposition from one of his closest allies in his proposal to merge the ruling coalition into a new party. Defense Minister Lemma Megersa said he disagrees with the rushed merger of political parties, according to an interview with the Voice of America. Lemma is the deputy chairman of...
Are you ‘brain-dead’? Turkey’s Erdogan raps Macron before NATO summit
ISTANBUL/PARIS (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Emmanuel Macron’s warning that NATO was dying reflects a “sick and shallow” understanding, telling the French president “you should check whether you are brain dead”. The comments drew a swift rebuke from the French foreign ministry, which summoned Turkey’s ambassador to Paris to protest...
KENYA HOSTING ONLF, JUBALAND OFFICIALS’ MEETING, CAUSING CONCERN IN ETHIOPIA
Addis Abeba, – Kenya is playing a host to a meeting between high level officials from the Ogaden National Liberation Front (OLNF) led by party Chairman, Abdirahman Mahdi Madey, and high level officials from Jubaland, led by its recently elected President, Ahmed Mohamed Madobe, causing concern in Ethiopia, a well placed diplomatic source told Addis Standard. According to...
Somali Democratic Party – A belated fallacious Appeal to the Somali People
By Faisal A. Roble At the risk of analyzing the current volatile situation in Somali Regional State, I ask myself why suddenly some leaders within the Somali Democratic Party (SDP) appear as if they are dissatisfied with the merger into Ethiopian Prosperity Party (PP). Perhaps, this is a consequence of unanticipated political fortune. Until recently,...
Inside China’s concentration camps holding up to three million Muslim prisoners subjected to a regime of modern surveillance and old-fashioned torture
By IAN BIRRELL The guards picked out the prettiest girl – a teenager with her head shaved and wearing a simple uniform like all the other prisoners lined up silently outside. Told to confess her ‘crimes’, she insisted she was a reformed person. But she was ordered to remove her clothes – and was then raped...
Somalia, A Dutch Marine Company, and a Murky Contract
By Hassan M. Abukar While the Somali Federal Government and the nation eagerly await the final proceedings of the international maritime case between Kenya and Somalia at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, Netherlands, another legal case will soon be heard in the Netherlands between Somalia and a Dutch company named Atlantic...
Somaliland police shut down Horn Cable TV, arrest its editor
Nairobi, The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on authorities in the breakaway region of Somaliland to immediately allow the privately owned Horn Cable TV to operate freely and to unconditionally release its chief editor, Abdiqaadir Saleban Aseyr, also known as Coday. Police in Hargeisa, the capital, yesterday morning summoned Abdiqaadir to the headquarters of...
After a Massacre, Ethiopia’s Leader Faces Anger, and a Challenger
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, now faces an influential competitor — Jawar Mohammed, the founder of a media network and a former ally. By Simon Marks ADAMA, Ethiopia — Not long after security forces tried to arrest him in the middle of the night, Jawar Mohammed, a media baron and...
Ethiopian human rights boss battles scant resources
Giulia Paravicini DDIS ABABA (Reuters) – When Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appointed a former political prisoner in July as head of the state-funded human rights commission, supporters hailed it as a sign the country might finally tackle abuses by security forces and move to break a cycle of bloody ethnic feuds. Daniel Bekele left a...