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...over. When President Hu Jintao embarked upon his first trip there, in 2004, African nations, flush with the romance of a first date, fell over themselves in welcome. China inked deal after deal: a $2.3 billion stake in a Nigerian offshore petroleum field; a $1.5 billion pact to upgrade Ethiopia's telecom system; massive investments in Angola, now China's largest source of oil imports. China won diplomatic victories, too, getting Chad, Malawi and Senegal to switch recognition from Taipei to Beijing in just the past three years. And in 2006, Beijing hosted a triumphant follow-up summit with nearly...
That's been a major embarrassment to Ethiopia and, by extension, the United States, which supported Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's decision to invade, on the premise that it would quell the deepening Islamic fundamentalism that seemed to be taking hold. So far, events in Somalia suggest that it has had the opposite effect, driving moderate factions of the Islamists out of the country and shifting power to the best-armed and most hardline among them...
...troops, those tentative hopes seem to have been crushed. "We are not going to talk to with the Ethiopians and the [Somali government] right now because they are the same," Ahmed Abdallah, spokesman for the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia, told TIME. "There is no reason for Ethiopia to stay in Somalia for one more hour. If they leave, the peace process can take hold...
...approach. Astatke’s Ethio-Jazz perfectly illustrates the cultural syntheses that have defined the Diaspora of the second generation.In one composition, entitled “Derashe/Asosa/Dewel,” Astatke captures the sound of the dewel, a stone slab used to call devotees to prayer in rural Ethiopia, in a resonant vibraphone melody. Recontextualized in a jazz setting, the spiritual significance of these melodies transcends religious and ethnic boundaries and reaches a truly international audience. Astatke does not seek to establish an isolated, strictly Ethiopian niche within the arts community, focusing instead on “finding...
...operations are far more limited, deploying small, ineffective forces in Somalia and Darfur. While the AU did lead efforts to stem post-election violence in Kenya in January, it does little to quell unrest in other areas, such as Congo, Mali, Niger, Nigeria or Uganda, or looming confrontation between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and its observers endorse corrupt elections from Nigeria to Zimbabwe. Kurt Shillinger of the South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg says despite Tuesday's limited action, other events on the continent point to the AU's weakness. "Having stepped in to broker a solution...