Africa’s “Miami” boasts Art Deco trove
Mon May 19, 2008 3:24am BST
 
By Andrew Cawthorne
 
ASMARA (Reuters) - When Italian architect Giuseppe Pettazzi inaugurated
Eritrea’s plane-shaped “Fiat Tagliero” service station in 1938, he
stunned onlookers by pulling out a gun.
 
There, the story behind Africa’s finest piece of Futurist architecture
goes hazy.
 
In one version, Pettazzi stood defiantly on one of his 18-metre [...]

91 Ethiopian (Woyane) soldiers killed in Somalia
Sun, 18 May 2008 23:00:47
PRESS TV

Roadside bombs and heavy clashes have reportedly killed at least 91 Ethiopian troops near Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region, Weyne town.
Ethiopian soldiers, leaving Afgoye and Baidoa towns were targeted by roadside bombs planted earlier by the fighters of the Union of Islamic Courts, Press [...]