UN to vote on ending monitoring of Eritrea-Ethiopia dispute

18 hours agoUNITED NATIONS (AFP) — Belgium on Tuesday presented a draft Security Council resolution that would end the UN mission monitoring the border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia.The text, which would terminate the mission's mandate when it expires on Thursday, would go for a vote before the 15-member council on Wednesday, said a Western diplomat speaking on condition of anonymity.The draft stresses that the termination is "without prejudice to Ethiopia and Eritrea's obligation under the (2000) Algiers agreements."

By Groum Abate

Source: CapitalKhadra Mohammed, First Lady of Djibouti, has received the 20 hectares of land in the Sebeta area for a flower farm, on Tuesday July 22, 2008 from Alemu Sime, Investment Bureau Head of the Oromia Regional State in Ethiopia.The First Lady received the plot on behalf of her son Ayinashe Omar Guelleh, whom it was learnt, plans to engage in the booming flower sector in Ethiopia. Floriculture already earns Ethiopia over 150 million dollars annually.

EPRP(democratic) Open Letter to APRM

The Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party EPRP (Democratic)

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Surge in violence pushes Ethiopia, Somalia to crisis point

Peter Goodspeed, National Post Published: Friday, July 18, 2008Killings, kidnappings and the threat of famine are turning the Horn of Africa into the most dangerous and deadly spot on earth.Already plagued by drought, food shortages and massive malnutrition, Ethiopia and Somalia are now facing a potentially catastrophic humanitarian crisis, say international aid workers."Some people are equating it to 1991 and 1992," when hundreds of thousands died of starvation, said Marilyn McHarg, director of Medecins Sans Frontieres Canada.

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ICC Prosecutor seeks charges against Sudanese President for Darfur crimes

Sample Image 14 July 2008 – Three years after the United Nations Security Council requested him to investigate atrocities committed in Darfur, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court today presented evidence against Sudan’s President for alleged war crimes in the strife-torn region, including genocide.

By Jason Mclure

July 14 (Bloomberg) -- Nurita Kadir huddles with dozens of women and babies in a fly-infested white tent in the southern Ethiopian town of Senbete and waits for a meal for her starving five-month old child.

Kadir, clad in a black headscarf, is among as many as 4.6 million people the World Health Organization estimates have been left hungry after spring rains failed. The drought is draining grain stores in villages across a third of the country. She's depending on foreign aid as criticism mounts that the government isn't doing enough to tackle the crisis.

``The rains didn't come,'' Kadir, 36, said in a June 11 interview, as her child lay on a brown blanket beside her. ``I had nothing to eat so the milk stopped.''

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