Stories about Ethiopia from July, 2005
Ethiopia: Victim profile
Friends of Ethiopia points to an article about a young woman who died in an anti-government protest.
Ethiopia: From Gonder to Niger
Andrew Heavens on how hunger crisises are inherently undramatic.
Meskel Square: The Spice Girls, guns and ET-Francs
Andrew Heavens, who writes Meskal Square, posts a great roundup from around Ethiopia's blogosphere.
Sub-Saharan Africa Friday Blog Roundup
African Bullets and Honey was in London on the day of the attack, and concludes that “whenever I think about the scale and importance of the lives of people I love, and then consider those who were killed today, I am forced to conclude that a single human life is...
Sub-Saharan Africa Daily Blog Roundup
Timbuktu Chronicles passes on some interesting information about a virtual marketplace, enabled by the use of cellphones. Andrew Heavens of Meskel Square interviews two Addis Ababa university students about Live 8. Africa Vox is a group blog by African journalists who are covering the G8 summit this year. Via Kenya...
African Blog Roundup
Debates over the relevance of Live 8 have kept the African blogosphere jumping this weekend. Andrew Heavens of Meskel Square is amazed that “you can't open a British newspaper (or in my case website) at the moment without reading someone's views on Africa”. Onyango Oloo of Kenya Democracy Project has...