Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed an experienced Kenyan diplomat as the first Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union (AU), established earlier this year to strengthen links between the two organizations.Zachary Muburi-Muita, who has served as Kenya’s Permanent
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Assessment of Abortion in Ethiopia Reveals that Unsafe Abortion Remains Common
Guttmacher Institute news release: New Study Provides First Countrywide Assessment of Abortion in Ethiopia:Significant progress made since law was liberalized, but unsafe abortion remains common Four years after the abortion law was liberalized, only a quarter ofall abortions in…
Bulto on Judicial Referral of Constitutional Disputes in Ethiopia
Takele Soboka Bulto (Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne) has posted "Judicial Referral of Constitutional Disputes in Ethiopia" on SSRN. It will be published as part of "Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law in Ethiopia: Challenges and…
Ethiopia Pleads for Aid
Friday's Philadelphia Inquirer reported that 25 years after a devastating famine killed one million of its citizens, Ethiopia on Thursday appealed for emergency food aid for 6.2 million people. The current need arises from a prolonged drought that has hit much of the…
Tying Family Planning to Efforts to Reduce Carbon Emissions
Salon.com: Condoms against climate change, by Andrew Leonard:Thomas Malthus: Prophet of overpopulation doom, or the first family planner? From "Fewer Emitters, Lower Emissions, Less Cost: Reducing Future Carbon Emissions by Investing in Family Planning":The historical relevance of Malthus'work in…
Americans Warned About Shigella, Salmonella, and Cholera As Ethiopia Fights Outbreak Of “Acute Watery Diarrhea”
We cannot find a copy of it, but apparently there was a Voice of America report that the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia warned Americans in the country of increased risks of diarrheal illnesses including Shigella, Salmonella, and Cholera.…
Arbitration Commission Issues Award in Ethiopia-Eritrea Border Dispute
An ad hoc international arbitral commission issued its final damages award on Monday in a border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea, splitting damages between the two countries for violations of international law committed by each of them during a 1998-2000 conflict between them. The Eritrea-Ethiopia…
World Bank Extends $540 Million to Ethiopia and Says Country Should Ease Regulations on NGOs
Nasdaq reports that the World Bank extended $540 million to develop basic services in Ethiopia and stated that the country should ease its regulations on NGOs. Ethiopia adopted a controversial aid law early this year, under which any local group…
U.S. Criticizes New Ethiopian Law Restricting NGO Activities
On Tuesday, January 6th, the Ethiopian Parliament voted 327 to 79 to pass the Charities and Societies Proclamation (CSO law) that limits foreign funding for NGOs to less than 10% and bans lobby groups from campaigns against civil liberties.The United…
Proposed Ethopian “Charities and Societies Proclamation Law” Raises Concerns
AFROL NEWS (an independent news agency dedicated to Africa) reports that Ethiopia’s government has drafted a Charities and Societies Proclamation law, which it claims is a "benign attempt to promote financial transparency." However, fearing that the law is really…