TOPICS: Is Ethiopia undergoing renaissance?

Kenya’s traumatic post-election stress disorder is making regional governments jittery. Knock-on fuel shortages and economic dislocation affecting landlocked Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi are only part of the story. The sudden turbulence radiating from...

20 Jan, 2008

TOPICS : Somalia: A cruelty the world ignores

As tens of thousands more frightened and exhausted people fled the terrors of Mogadishu last week, a Somali leader condemned the international community “for watching the cruelty in Somalia like a film and not bothering to help”. He was mistaken....

28 Nov, 2007

Zahara’s real mum wants her back

NEW YORK: Angelina Jolie’s adopted daughter Zahara’s biological mother wants her back. Jolie, when she got the kid, had proudly announced, “She’s from Ethiopia. She’s an AIDS orphan.” But adopted papers clearly stated that the baby had a...

Travel Abroad 17 Nov, 2007

Call for clean development projects

Kathmandu, October 18:Nepal has urged the international community working for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to encourage participation of the private sector in small-scale projects that provide social and environmental benefits.“Our agenda in the...

Horoscopes 18 Oct, 2007

Jolie-Pitt set to adopt Burmese kid

LOS ANGELES: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are set to adopt a baby from Burma.The couple have reportedly enlisted the help of Dr Jane Aronson, who runs the Worldwide Orphans Foundation, and a leading Burmese monk to help arrange visits to local...

Travel Abroad 26 Sep, 2007

What the books are about

The God Delusion I was an agnostic before I read this book. My logic went a little something like this. Although I didn’t believe in God, I didn’t know there wasn’t one for sure. Atheism seemed a little arrogant, an assertion of something which...

Travel Abroad 18 Aug, 2007

BROWSE THROUGH : What the books are about

Paperback Sunday1.The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, paperback, published by Black Swan, pp 464 , Rs 5502.Stick Out Your Tongue by Ma Jian, paperback, published by Vintage, pp 96 , Rs 6503.Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb, paperback, published...

Travel Abroad 11 Aug, 2007

IN OTHER WORDS: Far-off front

American forces have established a network of outposts in Ethiopia and Kenya centered on a base in Djibouti. The US has created an Africa Command to coordinate military activities. In January, US gunships blasted away at suspected Islamic terrorists in...

09 Aug, 2007

Jolie, Pitt Planning Another Adoption!

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are reportedly planning to adopt another child--an orphan boy from the Czech Republic. Jolie, who is in the Czech capital Prague to film her latest movie Wanted, has become besotted with the child there after paying...