Vol. XIX, No. 5................... ESTABLISHED  1993................... February 2, 2012
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20 May 2012 
In this Issue

* Focus of the Week

* Editorial Roundup

* News

* Business & Investment

* Politics with humor

* Horn News


The Week's Focus

Bringing SINO-Africa cooperation to a new height :

The African Union Conference Centre and Office Complex, a donation of the government of the People’s Republic of China, was officially inaugurated in the presence of heads of state and government of African countries as well as senior Chinese officials...

Leadership contest dominates AU’s agenda :

At the 18th African Union (AU) Summit, the contest between Jean Ping, the chairperson of AU Commission, and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the South African Minister of Interior and President Jacob Zuma’s ex-wife, for the top position of the commission stood out overshadowing the theme of the summit “Intra-African Trade...

Editorial Roundup

Editorial

A clear message to the Eritrean regime... The IGAD Assembly of Heads of State and Government held its 20th Extra-Ordinary Summit on January 27, 2011 in Addis...

In Private Media

Is the AU’s decade-long story a success or a failure? ... It has been ten years since the Organization of African Unity (OAU) was charged with greater responsibilities and renamed the African Union (AU) to reflect its more loftier purpose of creating a unified Africa...

Internal dialogue is needed regarding the Eritrean issue... In international politics and inter-country relationship there is no such thing as a permanent enemy or a permanent friend...

News


Horn News & Views

Eritrea

  • An eighty-nine year old Eritrean man abducted in Addis Ababa...

Kenya

  • Kenya ICC: Kenyatta resigns from finance role...

Somalia

  • Somalia's al-Shabab attack Ethiopian base in Beledweyne...

  • Western hostages freed in US military raid...

Sudan

  • South Sudan: UN condemns refugee camp air raid...

  • Sudan: Brother of Darfur rebels' late leader takes over...

  • Sudan and South Sudan leaders bid to defuse oil dispute...

  • South Sudan shuts oil output amid export row with Sudan...

  • South Sudan demands border deal before restarting oil; Khartoum frees held tankers...

  • Main Darfur rebel group names new leader...