All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni and other African leaders yesterday agreed to ask for compensation from the rich industrialised nations during the climate change talks to be held in Copenhagen at the end of the year.
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
African demands for climate change compensation and emission cuts by rich nations are unlikely to be met in next month's Copenhagen summit, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Tuesday. "We have only a few weeks between now and Copenhagen... the indications that we get are not very encouraging," Meles said after a meeting of an African Union panel set up to represent the continent...
Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
From Reuters: African leaders agreed on Tuesday on how much cash to demand from the rich world to compensate for the impact of climate change on the continent but kept the figure secret ahead of next month's Copenhagen talks. The United Nations summit in Denmark will try to agree on how to counter climate change and come up with a post-Kyoto treaty protocol to curb emissions. "We have set a minimum...
Ethiopia Watch (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
From Sudan Tribune , Sunday 15 November 2009: Ethiopia inaugurates Africa’s first ever biggest power dam November 14, 2009 (TEKEZE) — Ethiopia today officially inaugurated Tekeze hydropower plant, whose 44 meter concrete Arch dam is biggest of its kind in African continent. The new power plant which went functional as of today was inaugurated in the presence of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi,...
Soc 202 - Current Events (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Abigail Lucas 10/16/09 1:21 pm Poverty and drought are challenging to international aid agencies and the governments of East Africa in efforts to help save the lives of so many malnourished victims. The rain has been scarce for the past three years causing lake beds to dry up. The Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said “There are always malnourished children somewhere in Ethiopia every year.”...
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
The African Executive, a libertarian website based in Kenya, pens an editorial about food aid : "The role of food aid in Africa’s food insecurity has come under sharp scrutiny in the wake of an estimated 120 million people on the continent facing starvation; 6.2 million of these from Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s premier, Meles Zenawi, has cautioned his parliament to be wary of the ‘food...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said his government prefers to insist on its stand that it is the only way of managing to control inflation without abandoning from increasing the country's economic development.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Ethiopian Prime minister Meles Zenawi has accused food aid agencies of lacking genuine interest to end hunger and poverty in Ethiopia.The country's 6.2 million people are reported to be in need of food aid.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
ommenting recently on an International Crisis Group (ICG) study dealing with rising ethnic tensions and dissent in advance of the 'May 2010' elections, Ethiopia's arch dictator Meles Zenawi wisecracked, 'This happens as some people have too many billions of dollars to spend and they feel that dictating how, particularly, the developing countries manage their affairs is their God given right and to...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Ethiopia has been ruled for too long by a dictator who mocks all Ethiopians with puppet elections, writes Alemayehu G. Mariam in this week's Pambazuka News. While Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi talks about the 'moral and prudent' need for a 'single negotiating team' for Africa on climate change, the same demands could easily be made around ensuring a genuinely democratic election in 2010. But...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Last week we read in the news that Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was warning that African delegates may walk out of the upcoming UN World Summit on Climate Change to be held in Copenhagen in December unless they are assured of a huge sum - hundreds of billions a year - by the countries of the West. A number of things may come to one's mind on reading such warnings.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has strongly condemned last week's ICG's report on the country.
Global Security (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has dismissed reports that Ethiopian troops are back in neighboring Somalia.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
The Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), led by its chairman and prime minister, Meles Zenawi, has radically reformed Ethiopia’s political system. The regime transformed the hitherto centralised state into the Federal Democratic Republic and also redefined citizenship, politics and identity on ethnic grounds.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
A few days ago Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi announced that Africa will walk out of global climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December unless its US$300bn climate compensation plan is made a key agenda at the meeting.
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