Annals of National Security
Preparing the Battlefield
The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran.
by Seymour M. Hersh July 7, 2008
The New Yorker

L ate last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. [...]

NationMedia
By MICHAEL DEIBERT
 June 30, 2008: When it was announced last month that the ruling party of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi had swept local polls in this vast Horn of Africa nation, few expressed surprise.
Zenawi’s Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) coalition was declared by the country’s national electoral board to have won 559 districts in [...]

Sun 29 Jun 2008
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, June 29 (Reuters) - The African Union condemned Eritrea on Sunday for taking military action against Djibouti near a strategic Red Sea shipping route and told Asmara to withdraw its forces, AU officials said.
Djibouti accused neighbour Eritrea earlier this month of moving troops across the border, sparking clashes which [...]

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June 26, 2008: Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says thousands of Somali adults and children are malnourished and in urgent need of medical treatment.
This comes as local human rights groups claim conflict in the country has left more than 2,000 civilians dead so far this year.
Ama Boateng reports on the fighting that is exacerbating hunger and [...]

Amara and Tigre, of today’s Ethiopia and Eritrea, were the founders of ancient Gebts over 5100 years ago for the primary purpose of selling goods and produce. For more information and lists of ancient Amarigna and Tigrigna words written 5100 years ago, please visit the website at http://www.ancientgebts.org

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Foreign Policy
July/August 2008 Issue
When troops opened fire in the streets of Mogadishu in early May, it was a tragically familiar scene in war-torn Somalia. Except on this day, soldiers weren’t fighting Islamist militias or warlords. They were combating a mob of tens of thousands rioting over soaring food [...]

Security Council: Peace and security in Africa (The situation between
Eritrea and Djibouti) (S/2008/387).
[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 1 hour and 41 minutes]

EthiopianReview
June 25th, 2008  

Ethiopians in Dallas confront Meles Zenawi’s stooges
The Messengers of the butcher of Addis Ababa, Meles Zenawi, had attempted to convene a meeting in Dallas on Sunday, June 22nd, at the Radisson Hotel located at Hwy 75 to spread propaganda about Ethiopia and their regime. They came prepared to deliver their well known talking [...]

Eritrean Permanent Mission to the United Nations

By MOI
Jun 24, 2008, 18:02

Excellencies,
The Government of Djibouti has been engaged in leveling incessant and baseless accusations against the Government of Eritrea for the past two months. These accusations have no bearing whatsoever with the facts and realities on the ground.
In the event, Eritrea did not respond [...]