TOMS Shoes Founder Works To Stamp Out Foot Disease In Ethiopia

CBS Evening News recently profiled a TOMS shoe drop in Southern Ethiopia, where TOMS Shoes Founder and Chief Shoe Giver Blake Mycoskie spoke about his desire to stamp outpodoconiosis, a debilitating foot disease that is caused by walking barefoot in silica-heavy volcanic soil.
TOMS Shoes is working to prevent podoconiosis, which has already affected between half [...]

Somali insurgents stone man to death for adultery

Mogadishu -
The Somali insurgent group al-Shabaab has stoned a man to death for committing adultery in the port town of Marka, officials said.
“The 33-year-old man Abbas [Hussein Abdurahman] confessed his crime in front of the Islamic court, and today we have implemented his reward in front of the people in accordance with Islamic sharia,” al-Shabaab [...]

Economically speaking, it’s time to invade Eritrea

(by, Don Pittis) -
Maybe it is time for the rest of the world to follow Canada’s lead and pull out of Afghanistan. Then we can all invade some place equally needy like Eritrea. It only makes economic sense.
The idea struck me the other morning when I heard my old friend from Hong Kong days, Adrian [...]

Why We should be Sick-and-Tired of “Ethiopian Politics”

As an Ethiopian nothing drives me more bonkers than waking up every morning, just to learn that something tragic, or depressing had happened in Ethiopia (either on the political arena, or the economical-and-business front).
In my entire existence, I have never felt any less of an Ethiopian through all this mayhem that Ethiopia seems to find [...]

Ethiopia: Starving for Freedom

Blame famine on trade restrictions, not on climate change or a lack of Western aid.
Today is World Food Day and, once again, millions of people in East Africa are starving. Some have sought to turn this tragedy into opportunity. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi blames Western-induced climate change, and demands that rich countries cut greenhouse [...]