Vol 2 (AAC) No 12 | ETHIOPIACHINA Power surge in Addis 19th October 2009 The Ethiopian government is launching one of Africa's most ambitious cooperation programmes with China to build several new power stations Ethiopia has signed contracts with Chinese construction companies to build two huge dams as part of a US$12 billion, 25-year Power Sector Master Plan to harness the country's hyd...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 10 | DJIBOUTIETHIOPIAINDIA Gurjit Singh 27th August 2009 India's Ambassador to Ethiopia (Retired) Long-serving diplomat Gurjit Singh distinguished himself as one of the most activist ambassadors in Addis Ababa and personally raised the substance and profile of Ethiopia-India ...
Vol 49 No 24 | ETHIOPIASOMALIA Pirates and the lads 28th November 2008 Mercenaries, the media and worried looking men in suits are much exercised by the escalating operations of the Somali pirates patrolling the Gulf of Aden in search of booty. In fac...
Vol 49 No 17 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Bristling border 22nd August 2008 The United Nations has given up, the parties will not talk and the troops are face to face The risk of another war between Ethiopia and Eritrea grew on 31 July, when the United Nations Security Council closed its mission along the border, the UN Mission in Ethiopia and ...
Vol 49 No 7 | ETHIOPIA Addis plays its diplomatic cards 28th March 2008 Ethiopian diplomats are confident of a couple of successes at the United Nations in the coming weeks. The first is over Somalia, where the UN Special Representative Ahmedou Ould Ab...
Vol 48 No 24 | ETHIOPIA Ethiopia's options 30th November 2007 Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government has three options for its Somalia policy, all of them formidably difficult.
Vol 48 No 20 | ERITREAETHIOPIA That troublesome border 5th October 2007 The quarrel between Addis Ababa and Asmara over their common border and the political chaos in Somalia is intensifying. The heat turned up after the Ethiopia Eritrea Boundary Comm...
Vol 48 No 19 | ETHIOPIA The Ogaden's trickling sands 21st September 2007 The Ogaden's bloody struggle has a wider global dimension Thirty years ago, the United States National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, declared that ‘SALT lies buried in the sands of the Ogaden’: he meant the Strategic Arms Limitat...
Vol 48 No 19 | ETHIOPIA Roots of the ONLF rebellion 21st September 2007 The Ogaden National Liberation Front joined the political system in Ethiopia’s Somali Regional in 1991 and it had a majority in the administration. In 1994, it split over the issue...
Vol 48 No 16 | ETHIOPIA The Millennium deal 3rd August 2007 Political compromises could mark the start of a new style for both government and opposition To satisfy both domestic expediency and international pressure, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has commuted the life sentences passed on 35 of his opponents. That was expected and it ...