Ethiopia's Offer To Settle Border Conflict with Eritrea Encounters Local Opposition

The Ethiopia Observer published on 11 June 2018 an article titled "Irob Protests in Tigray Display Local Obstacles to Implementing Eritrean Peace Deal" by Arefaynie Fantahun.

The author explains that the Irob people who live along the Ethiopia-Eritrea border in the vicinity of Badme and who would be most affected by the transfer of Badme from Ethiopia to Eritrea find the announcement by Ethiopia unwelcome.

Ethiopia: Land of Dust, Eucalyptus and Hope

The New York Times ran on 11 October 2013 a travel account of Tigray Region in Ethiopia titled "Ethiopia: Land of Dust, Eucalyptus and Hope" by Michael Snyder. 

A New Kind of Non-Profit Operates in Ethiopia's Tigray Region

The New York Times Magazine ran a long article on 8 August 2013 titled "A Save-the-World Field Trip for Millionaire Tech Moguls" by Max Chafkin.  It is a journalistic account about a different and controversial non-profit organization called charity: water that is operating primarily in Tigray Region of Ethiopia.  Founded in New York City in 2006, charity:water acts as a fund-raising clearinghouse for locally based charities, which it subcontracts to drill water wells or buy water filters. 

Charity: water offers two basic "products."  The first is a social network that allows persons to set up a Web page to encourage Twitter and Facebook friends to donate in honor of an event or cause such as a birthday or marathon.  The second is a "Well membership", which is a promise to donate at least $24,000 a year for three years to charity: water's operational bank account.  This is obviously designed for wealthy donors. 

Investment Study for Mekelle, Ethiopia

The Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI), an initiative of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, in cooperation with the UN Development Program recently published an 83-page study titled "Invest in Ethiopia: Focus Mekelle."

This study covers one of the eleven cities in eight African countries in an effort to attract more foreign direct investment. 

The other cities in the project are Accra and Kumasi, Ghana; Kisumu, Kenya; Blantyre, Malawi; Bamako and Segou, Mali; Akure and Kaduna, Nigeria; Louga, Senegal; and Tabora, Tanzania.

The detailed study looks at:

• Opportunities for investors
• Incentives, special zones and related matters
• The business environment
• Taxation in Ethiopia
• Legal framework for investment
• Investor assessment of the investment climate
• Foreign investors in Ethiopia