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Ethiopia, Kenya and the leadership vacuum.

Ethiopia, Kenya and the leadership vacuum. By Yilma Bekele
Somalia would take a long time to recover and start acting like a Nation. Kenya the sane among the group has entered the warring Nations club. South Sudan has become a …

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Meles writes Obama

By Yilma Bekele

To my dear friend Barack Obama. I hope this letter finds you well. We are doing fine here in this location that will stay nameless. Except for that little matter of famine, deflation and inflation most things …

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Somali members of parliament stranded in Kenya

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – More than 200 Somalian parliamentarians have found themselves stranded in Nairobi, lacking the money to pay for air tickets for their return home, BBC reported Friday.

Citing a spokesman for the parliamentarians, who had attended an …

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Eight people killed at Kenyan border-town fighting

Source: APA

At least eight Kenyan Somalis have been killed in renewed fighting between two Somali clans in and outside the north-eastern Kenyan city of Mandera bordering Somalia early on Wednesday morning, a source from Mandera told APA in Mogadishu.…

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Canadian held in Ethiopia continues to languish

By Louisa Taylor, The Ottawa Citizen

The case of a Canadian citizen who has been held in an Ethiopian jail for almost two years — without trial or access to a lawyer — while other foreign prisoners are released is …

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Kenyan detains 65 Ethiopian immigrants

NAIROBI, KENYA (APA) – The Kenya police in the Eastern province on Tuesday arrested 65 Ethiopian youths along the Nairobi-Mombasa highway in a suspected human trafficking syndicate, the state owned television, Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), reported.

The aliens …

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Sudan summons Kenyan, Woyanne ambassadors

By Andrew Heavens

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan summoned the Kenyan and Ethiopian Woyanne ambassadors on Monday to protest against what it said were illegal shipments of arms to its semi-autonomous south, state media reported.

Khartoum was protesting over “violations” linked …

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Northern Kenya: A legal-political scar

By Ekuru Aukot

THE ‘FORMATION OF KENYA’ ERA

Kenya became a British protectorate in 1895 and a colony in 1920. The north was important only for securing Kenya’s territory and governmental authority. The Northern Frontier District (comprised of Turkana, Marsabit, …

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