Addis Neger

“I tried to give them 30 birr, explaining that this is the amount that I could pay. They refused to accept the money, arguing that the least amount of money one can pay in this kind of business is 50 birr,” continues the barber. “They even threatened to write my name on the list of people who are resistant to pay, and I told them that they can do as they wish. So they wrote my name and went.”

Security cameras installed by the Information Network Security Agency (INSA) in the streets of Addis Ababa have ceased their services due to system failure.
The cameras were purchased from a Chinese company, China Video Surveillance Ltd.

Ethiopia’s Head of Intelligence is a hot-tempered man whose character resembles that of Eritrea’s totalitarian leader, Isayas Afewerki, according to leaked secret diplomatic cable by the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks. In a diplomatic cable sent to Washington by the former American Ambassador in Addis Ababa, Donald Yamamoto, on 08 June 2009, Getachew Assefa was depicted as [...]

Eritrea’s descent into absolute dictatorship was partly blamed on allegation of assassination attempt against its leader, Isayas Afewerki, by Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi in 1996, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable. This allegation would come as a surprise to many observers of the Horn of Africa as Ethiopia and Eritrea were assumed to have [...]

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