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UN pushes Eritrea to comply with resolutions
By Jeremy Clarke
Nairobi – Eritrea is taking steps in the right direction but should do more to prove it is complying with United Nations resolutions on security issues affecting its neighbours, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.
Eritrea participated in a Qatar-led effort to solve its border dispute with Djibouti and it sent representatives to the Istanbul conference on Somalia...
Local Ethiopians protest leader’s visit to G20
Semou Zinabou in his Kitchener home
The Record, By Liz Monteiro
KITCHENER – Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is a repressive dictator who shouldn’t be allowed to visit Canada and participate in the G20 summit this weekend, says an Ethiopian-born Kitchener man.
Semou Zinabou and about 60 local Ethiopians are taking their disdain to the streets and participating in a protest against...
Praising Eritrea’s engagement with neighbours, Ban urges compliance with resolutions
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
28 June 2010 – Eritrea deserves credit for its recent constructive engagement with its neighbours and the international community, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report in which he urges the country to provide evidence that it is complying with a Security Council resolution that imposed sanctions for the country’s destabilizing activities...
Video: Riz Khan-Is the West dumping it's substandard food on the developing world?
There are currently an estimated 195 million children suffering from malnutrition around the world, according to the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders. The problem is compounded by the politics surrounding global food aid programmes, with critics concerned that supplies donated consist of nutritionally inadequate fortified corn-soy flours that fail to provide...
Africa 'witnessing birth of a new ocean'
By Matt McGrath
BBC News Science reporter A 60km crack opened in Ethiopia in 2005 and has been expanding ever since
Africa is witnessing the birth of a new ocean, according to scientists at the Royal Society.
Geologists working in the remote Afar region of Ethiopia say the ocean will eventually split the African continent in two, though it will take about 10 million years.
Lead researcher Tim...
Building a Wall of Trees Across Africa
In an attempt to keep the world’s largest hot desert from getting any larger, African leaders want to build a wall of trees across the continent to stop the Sahara from encroaching into Central Africa. The “Great Green Wall” would be nine miles wide and more than 4,800 miles long while, extending across eleven African countries (Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria,...
Armed robber found guilty of £40m Graff jewellery heist
Disguised: CCTV footage of the robbers wearing stage make-up as they entered the store in New Bond Street
Paul Cheston and Justin Davenport
An armed robber was convicted today of taking part in Britain's biggest jewellery robbery at Graff Diamonds in Mayfair.
Aman Kassaye, 25, threatened to shoot staff during the record-breaking £40 million raid on the New Bond Street store.
He and...
