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Nations In The Hood: Week ending 12/7/03 Print E-mail
By Awate Staff - Dec 07, 2003   

SOMALIA: They have elections...their diaspora remits 750 mil per year, and their war lords spend over 4 million USD in peace negotiations...SUDAN:  no longer "bandits", "traitors" and "enemy agents", the SPLM and DUP visit their country and sign reconciliation agreements...ETHIOPIA is promised by its "partners" (donor nations) three billion US dollars...can you make that in cash, asks Meles Zenawi....ERITREA: once again, Isaias Afwerki is NOT showing his employees the play-book: they are singing from yesterday's hymn book; they are on Plan A: they are traveling the world saying "no dialogue"; meanwhile, Isaias has moved to Plan B: he is qualifying "no dialogue" to "no open-ended dialogue"...Can you say "MEDIATOR"?

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Nations In The Hood: 11/09/03 Print E-mail
By Awate Staff - Nov 09, 2003   
***image1:left***SUDAN: Dr. Lam Akol on small-group politics; Turabi's views on "ink-on-paper"; IGAD elbows out Arab League...ETHIOPIA: attacks UNMEE, IRIN, EEBC and gets away with it; dodges criticism at EU-ACP session...SOMALIA: New US Envoy?  And what will it take for Djibouti not to be "fed up"? ERITREA: government gets diplomatically battered...Shabait.com still writes in a language that nobody understands...the Alliance concludes a two-week meeting and announces the awesome news that...it had just concluded a two week meeting.  Disagree?  According to the Alliance you are a "defeatist" and an "opportunist."  Who knows, you might even be a Weyane...
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Nations In The Hood: 10/31/03 Print E-mail
By Awate Staff - Oct 31, 2003   
***image1:left*** ETHIOPIA: What sanctions?....DJIBOUTI: this issue of Badme now seems insoluble.... SOMALIA: Blames Kenya, Ethiopia for "derailing" peace proces.... SUDAN: The new word is "set back"... but temporarily.... UGANDA: Taban Idi Amin returns home... ERITREA: Government gives political amnesty to.... sheep... And the Eritrean opposition drafts the 17th response to Dr. Habte...
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Nations In The Hood: 10/23/03 Print E-mail
By Awate Staff - Oct 23, 2003   
***image1:left***Sudan's juvenile record to be expunged by the world's sole prosecutor...SPLM has already printed its own currency for circulation in the areas it controls.   Soon, they will be buying coffee with the local money and then exporting itwait, wait, that is a different country....Ethiopia: having exhausted its moral, legal arguments to sway the Boundary Commissions decision, actually used a last-defense argument: is it because I am black and poor that you are doing this to me?...Is it paradoxical to have a Minister of Information in a nation that claims to honor the rights of the press?....Somalia agrees with Malaysia: When Things Go Wrong, It Is The Jews Fault...
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Nations In The Hood: 10/13/03 (SPECIAL EDITION) Print E-mail
By Awate Staff - Oct 14, 2003   
***image1:left***In African government circles, anti-terrorism has replaced anti-communism as the quickest route to gain American sympathy and milk the American cash cow.  The revolutionary language of freedom fighter, insurgent, rebel is now a useless relic: terrorismtargeting civilians into submission by random acts of crueltyis not so much dependent on the act itself, but on who is committing it.  There is the government and there are terrorists.  Thats it. 
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