With an estimated $13bn to $16bn lost every year to maritime pirates, the French navy has helped to escort some merchant ships through pirate-infested waters.  Read More →

Grasping the scale of Earth’s oceans BBC | Nov 12, 2008  Paul Rose led eight scientific diving expeditions for the BBC’s new Oceans series, which aims to give a global picture of the state of our seas. Here, he documents just a few of the observations his team made. The Oceans series captures rare footage of sperm whales courting In the early 1960s my life’s heroes were... 

EthiopianReview.com November 12th, 2008   The audacious Woyanne regime in Ethiopia sent election observers to monitor this month’s U.S. elections, according to the following news release from its embassies. This must be a sadistic joke on the suffering and subjugated people of Ethiopia by the disgraceful American ambassador in Addis Ababa.  Two senior officials with the National... 

Amanuel Tesfay, Nov 12, 2008 The Government of Eritrea took swift measure to reconstruct war-damaged infrastructures and to rehabilitate war-affected people caused by the TPLF’s invasion of Eritrea in May 1998. The war cost many lives and damaged in millions of dollars. The Government established an Emergency Reconstruction Program (ERP) in mid 2000, to facilitate rehabilitation and reconstruction...