Military intervention in Mali looming Tsedale Lemma   The AU needs “international support” to deal with the crisis in northern Mali, said Alassane Ouattara, President of Ivory Coast, in an exclusive interview with this magazine during the 19th AU head of states and governments summit held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

50, 000 Ethiopian graduates have just joined the search for the job market. Majority of them will not be employed soon and a good number of them are may be unemployable at all Hone Mandefro   Tekeste Amaha is one of the 50, 000-odd undergraduates this year only from the …

A fierce ethnic clash over resources between the Borana and Garri tribes in southern Ethiopia left more than 30 people dead, including 2 police officers, and 20, 000 displaced. The Kenyan Red Cross told the BBC that the 20, 000 people have crossed into Kenya to escape the clashes and …