2.5 mn euros for DR Congo rape victims
The European Union will provide 2.5 million euros ($3.5 million) to help care for rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo under an agreement signed Monday. The cash will go towards...
View Article$3.5m for DRC rape victims
Kinshasa – The European Union will provide $3.5m to help care for rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo under an agreement signed Monday. The cash will go towards “appropriate medical care”...
View ArticleEU gives $14m to Zimbabwe health programme
Harare – The European Union, through its Essential Medicines Support Programme (EMSP), is giving Zimbabwe a $14m grant. The European Commission, the government of Zimbabwe and Unicef will sign a grant...
View ArticleEuropean Union: From economic crisis to constitutional disaster
Hannes HOFBAUER (Austria) The Brussels summit of December 2011 intended to solve a huge fiscal and budget (and in reality an economic) problem in the Euro-zone. It let to a political split within the...
View ArticleRussia-EU Energy Ties Under Threat
By Natalia MEDEN The World Petroleum Congress, a highly respectable forum whose history dates back to 1993, is supposed to facilitate communication within the energy sector. The 20th World Petroleum...
View ArticleFAO-EU project to promote climate-smart farming / Malawi, Vietnam and Zambia...
ROME, Italy, January 16, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — FAO and the European Commission announced today a new €5.3 million project aimed at helping Malawi, Vietnam and Zambia transition to a...
View ArticleEU € 4.8 million joint programme to strengthen democratic reform in the...
BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, January 18, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The European Union and the Council of Europe today signed a €4.8 million joint programme to strengthen democratic...
View ArticleIran ‘stops oil exports’ to UK and France
Iran has stopped selling crude to British and French companies, the oil ministry has said, in a retaliatory measure against fresh EU sanctions on the Islamic state’s lifeblood, oil. “Exporting crude to...
View ArticleGreece’s Problems Are Far from Over
After 13 hours of overnight talks ending Tuesday morning at 5 a.m., euro zone finance ministers put together the latest rescue package for Greece. “We have reached a far-reaching agreement on Greece’s...
View ArticleTPL Inc. the ‘aid’ hurdle – Aklog Birara, PhD
By Aklog Birara, PhD “Men’s hearts ought not to set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil today.” Thomas Carlyle Ethiopia is, potentially, one of the richest countries in...
View ArticleSpain Is the New Greece
The socialist-inspired traveling circus more commonly known as the EU debt crisis is moving from Greece to Spain. Last Friday, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced that a deepening recession...
View ArticleEurope on the Brink
Vladimir NESTEROV At the moment, it is open to debate whether the Greek default is a fairly inescapable outcome or an accomplished fact, but, clearly, getting the Greeks out of trouble is not the point...
View ArticleCalculations and Miscalculations of Monti’s -Technical Cabimet
Vladimir NESTEROV | The last three years the European Union has faced the most grave economic crisis in its history. It’s not so much about preserving the «social oriented» market model that it has...
View ArticleGeopolitical Context of South Stream
Pyotr ISKENDEROV Russian president V. Putin confirmed at the Russia-EU recent summit that the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline would begin by the end of 2013 and projected that it would...
View ArticleThe false solutions of Rio+20
Carbon Trading and REDD+ in Mozambique: farmers ‘grow’ carbon for the benefit of polluters Via Campesina – Africa MAPUTO, 18 JUNE 2012 (VIA CAMPESINA AFRICA NEWS) –As evening falls, Albertina...
View ArticleSomalia: Alleged Rape Victim Charged
(Nairobi) – Somali authorities should drop politically motivated charges against five people including a journalist and a woman who alleged she was raped by state security forces. The attorney general...
View ArticleWales’ chief vet sees TB vaccination in Ethiopia
By Barry Alston THE Wales-based bovine TB eradication approach has taken on an international element following a visit to Ethiopia by chief veterinary officer, Dr Christianne Glossop, to see its cattle...
View ArticleEthiopian Army wages a secret and brutal war on civilians in Ogaden
Ethiopian Army wages a secret and brutal war on civilians in Ogaden Fleeing Ogaden refugees recount tales of terror Remote villagers were living in a happy life, performing traditional dances locally...
View ArticleLibyans ‘Fighting Drug Dealers for Our Country’
by Maryline Dumas (tripoli) Inter Press Service TRIPOLI- In Libya, a dose of LSD or the painkiller tramadol costs 78 cents, and a joint of cannabis is 7.80 dollars. Here, drugs are affordable to the...
View ArticleWorld Bank Must End its Support for Human Rights Abuses in Ethiopia
By David Pred A multi-billion dollar aid program administered by the World Bank is underwriting systematic human rights abuses in Ethiopia. Last September, Ethiopian victims submitted a complaint about...
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