Africa faces hard knocks as rich countries take manufacturing back home

The global economic crisis triggered by the outbreak of the COVID pandemic in 2020 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February this year has intensified the risk of declining trade integration between... Read more »

AI/HRW report: A setup

Dereje Demissie, an Ethio-American law expert, describes the American government bill against Ethiopia, HR 6600: “The bill is written based on heavily biased and distorted assumptions. It is a paid bill [by... Read more »

US Congress and the armed conflict in Ethiopia

The HR 6600 Bill submitted in the US Congress addressing the armed conflicts in Ethiopia is imbalanced in targeting only the Ethiopian (and Eritrean) governments and not the initiator and perpetrator of... Read more »

Democracy, human rights used as a Framework for Neocolonization: The case of H.R.6600 and S.3199

Freedom is the very nature of human beings. According to the Cambridge dictionary, the word is defined as “the condition or right of being able or allowed to do, say, think, etc.... Read more »

Ukraine war accelerates climate emergencies in Horn of Africa

In some parts of the region, famine is now not just a threat, it is waiting BY MOHAMED M FALL (UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa) Nine-year-old Noradin finds it... Read more »

How the US lost: China’s growing foothold in Africa

Over the past two decades, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has undergone extraordinary economic growth, transitioning from a low-income economy to an upper middle-income economy and maintaining its status as the... Read more »

Data on US Foreign Policy gives foresight on the outcome of H.R.6600 Bill

The looming H.R.6600 bill has enormous consequences for Ethiopia. If passed, it will execute the Biden Administration’s foreign policy interests towards Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. Biden’s government agencies and their... Read more »

‘HR 6600’ is a threat to Ethiopian Sovereignty

There is the news that a bill called HR6600 is being deliberated up on in the US House of Representatives. This is a bill if approved by the majority of the US... Read more »

Investing in own clinical trials, narrowing down vaccine inequalities

With vaccine inequality becoming a pressing issue globally following the COVID-19 outbreak; continents like Africa are advised to invest more in clinical trials and vaccine developments. Clinical trials and vaccine developments curtailed... Read more »

Africa’s absence in the UNSC casts shadow on world system

BY ADDISALEM MULAT Being home to over 1.3 populations, Africa has unfairly been excluded from powerful international organizations like United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Despite its large geography and demography, the continent... Read more »