Why are we wasting U.S. resources on this basket-case of a region? Wednesday, June 02, 2010 By Dan Simpson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette When Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh met with Vice President Joe Biden at the White House May 21, he carried with him the significance of representing the only successful partnership the United States has with a nation in the crucial Horn of Africa. Mr. Guelleh... 

Visiting scholar Abebe Gellaw says the United States has traded silence for security and military cooperation by ignoring Ethiopia's "appalling human rights record." He exhorts the United States to live up to promises to support democratic reform: "There must be no exceptions." Visiting scholar Abebe Gellaw BY CYNTHIA HAVEN On May 23, Ethiopia's incumbent Prime Minister...