ABC 7 News Alexandria (web | news) , Va. – New York City police have arrested an Alexandria man accused of murdering his 3-year-old daughter and her mother, ABC 7 News has learned. Investigators have been searching for 34-year-old Simon Asfeha since April 11, when officers responded to a domestic disturbance complaint and found the woman, 27-year-old Seble Tessema, and her daughter, dead. Both... 

VOA | Washington, D.C.     Voice of America announced Wednesday the start-up of a new satellite transmission of many of its Africa language broadcasts, giving the Horn of Africa broadcasts in Afan Oromo, Amharic and Tigrigna prime evening listening time on the 24-hour schedule. Ethiopians and Eritreans with access to satellite television on Arabsat, the region`s most popular... 

Tunis, 28 April 2010 -  The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF) on Wednesday,  28 April 2010 approved a ADF grant of UA 12.9 million* (equivalent to USD 20 million) to support a higher education development project in Eritrea. The project is aimed at scaling up human resources development in order to further enhance economic growth programmes and reduce poverty in the... 

Asmara, 27 April 2010 – Eritrea is participating in the Shanghai World Expo 2010 held under the theme “Better City Better Life”. At the Expo currently underway in the Chinese city of Shanghai    which opened on April 25 where more than 241 countries, organizations and associations are taking part, Eritrea has staged an exhibition highlighting Asmara’s assets... 

by Rick Rozoff (Wednesday, April 28, 2010) "Japan's destroyers off the coast of Somalia and the nation's first foreign military base in the post-World War Two era in Djibouti are in line with the geostrategic plans of Tokyo's allies in North America and Europe….Plans which are embodied most fully in the creation of the first U.S. regional military command outside North America... 

By Jason McLure April 28 (Bloomberg) — Ethiopia’s opposition plans to use violence to topple the government with backing from Western nations and non-governmental organizations after elections on May 23, a senior ruling party official said. “We know what their ultimate objective is, they want to instigate violence,” Tedros Hagos, head of the political bureau of the Tigray... 

Washington DC | VOA 27/04/2010   The Eritrean scholar and economist, Dr. Tekie Fissehatsion, died last week of a brain tumor.He was receiving medical treatment at Johns Hopkins Medical Center.A memorial service was held on April 24. Tekie was an economist and author or several books on Eritrea, regional economics and political conflicts.He also served on the constitutional commission... 

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Anouk's Africa Travel Blog By Anouk Zijlma, About.com Guide to Africa Travel I'll be turning 40 soon and have been lucky enough to visit at least that many countries in my life so far. I've shopped my way through Marrakech; scraped my knees climbing the Pyramids in Egypt (it was allowed in the '70's); felt the spray of the Victoria Falls on my face; rolled down sand dunes in the... 

EGYPT-NILE/ (FACTBOX) April 27 (Reuters) – Seven African countries are pressing for changes to water allocation from the Nile river, planning a new treaty that would sidestep heavyweights Egypt and Sudan, which are unwilling to surrender historic water rights. Under a 1929 agreement, brokered on one side by British colonial powers in Africa, Egypt is entitled to 55.5 billion cubic metres a year,...