Tag: Africa

  • Horn of Africa: A Unity Deferred: Between Memory and Possibility

    Horn of Africa: A Unity Deferred: Between Memory and Possibility

    The Horn of Africa remains one of the world’s most fragile political landscapes. State legitimacy is contested, nation-building is stalled or unraveling, and war routinely eclipses peace. Ethiopia and Sudan, its two largest states, are engulfed in civil war and political upheaval. Somalia continues to fracture, with little more than nominal central authority. Eritrea and

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  • Liberation Theology & Intergenerational Discourse on Eritrea

    Liberation Theology & Intergenerational Discourse on Eritrea

    African liberation theology: Intergenerational conversations on Eritrea’s futures. Ghirmai Negash & Awet T. Weldemichael. Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, 2018. 135 pp. Analysis by Beyan Negash* Liberation theology & intergenerational discourse on Eritrea** Negash and Woldemichael’s (2018) African liberation theology: Intergenerational conversations on Eritrea’s futures is at once about Eritrea and its people situated within historical trajectory

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  • Prime Minister Resigns: Ethiopia Moves Towards the Third Republic

    Prime Minister Resigns: Ethiopia Moves Towards the Third Republic

    In what many observers expected, yesterday the Ethiopian television announced the Ethiopian Prime Minister resigned from his position. Hilemariam was elected by the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) as a successor to the late Ethiopian Prime Minister Melles Zenawi, who died in August 2012. Until his election as prime minister, Hailemariam served as the

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  • Nevsun Loses Appeal to Dismiss Slave Labor Case

    Nevsun Loses Appeal to Dismiss Slave Labor Case

    A British Columbia court dismissed Nevsun’s appeal to have the case filed against it to be rejected. Three Eritrean refugees who worked in Nevsun’s mine in Bisha, Eritrea, had filed the case in November 2014. Nevsun had argued over jurisdiction and appealed to have the human rights-related case be moved to Eritrean courts claiming that the

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