PIDA Journalists Network Launched in Accra The Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) – African Union Commission (AUC) organized 3-day workshop from 19-21 May for the launching of PIDA Journalists Network. The workshop supported by GIZ , one of PIDA cooperation partners, supposed to set up a framework and action plan for PIDA […]
This is Djibouti that I know?! (1) By\ Mekki Elmograbi Djibouti visit was the last station in “Kerry’s East African tour – May 2015” after Kenya and Somalia. It was the first ever visit for a U.S. Secretary of State to the Horn of Africa. Associated Press published very interesting article on the visit, […]
The Politicized “Human Rights Campaign” against Ethiopia! (1) By\ Mekki Elmograbi A proverb helped me to understand the controversial international intervention justified by human rights and against human rights in the same time; “wet blanket is not a blanket”! The meaning could be understandable in the context of the “clash of civilizations” between Western […]
What do you know about PIDA? By\ Mekki Elmograbi The assembly of African heads of state and government on 26th May 2013 at African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, was historical not just because it marked the Golden Jubilee of the African Union but also because it adopted the declaration of Africa’s long term national […]
18th COMESA Summit under theme “inclusive and sustainable industrialization”, 20-31 March, Addis Ababa By\ Mekki Elmograbi The summit of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) scheduled from 20-31 March, 2015 has started in Addis Ababa at AU Headquarters. The first activities of summit are the 34th COMESA policy organ meetings and two […]
By\ Mekki Elmograbi COMESA 18 – Addis Ababa (1) Before we comment on the upcoming summit let us have some tales from the previous one; the handover speech of the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni at the 17th summit in Kinshasa was comprehensive and straightforward but a little bit funny! As expected, Museveni didn’t miss the […]
Djibouti, the Pomegranate of the Scale in East Africa (1) By: Mekki Elmograbi The leadership of this small country has committed itself to wise and balanced policy in a surrounding full of conflicts. It has succeeded in employing the unique geographical location, where modern ports and investments – in stony and arid lands – are […]
Mount Entoto thinks and goes green in PACCI’s Conference! “2014 Think and Go Green Afrique-Africa Conference and Fair” held in the first Ethiopian Green Building in Addis Ababa By\ Mekki Elmograbi The Pan African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PACCI) together with it’s partners organized 4-day conference and fair from 11th -14th December […]
Djibouti opens doors for media to report on Total’s pollution, insisting to sentence oil companies $272 million fine. By\ Mekki Elmograbi The Djiboutian government rejected any kind of settlement with oil companies that convicted by the Djiboutian judiciary with pollution and sentenced to pay 204 million euros ($272 million) for damages in a case dating […]
South Sudan and U.S. “Moral Trusteeship”! By\ Mekki Elmograbi Last January, I wrote an article under the title “American Proposal: South Sudan must be under American Trusteeship”. It wasn’t my own dream or “nightmare”, it was a real proposal published by New York Times, the article said “It Needs to be Put Under U.S.-led Trusteeship”, […]
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