PRETORIA, Apr 20 (IPS) – African trade ministers who met in Addis Ababa at
the African Union (AU) in March urged world leaders to
"place African economic development at the centre of
international efforts to build strategies towards the recovery of
the global economy?? ahead of the G20 summit in London.

Eritrea and Ethiopia are countries on the Horn of Africa covering 1,127,750 and 125,750 Sq. Km. respectively. Eritrea and Ethiopia are mountainus countries, and the highest peak is Ras Dejen in the Semien Mountains of Ethiopia (4543 m). At least seven other mountains reach above 4000 m. The two contries are located in Sudanian and Sahelian vegetation zones, and they should therefore be expected to have a dry climate and a vegetation dominated by woodland, wooded grassland and subdesert scrub. While this is true for the lowlands, the Eritrean and Ethiopian highlands have a climate and a vegetation much modified by altitude, and much more plant diversity than should be expected. One of the collaborators of the Flora of Eritrea and Ethiopia, Prof. Chr. Puff, Vienna, has made a number of photographs of the Semien Mountains available, both from the high altitude areas and from the surroundings. Read more:NHBS.

He is also the Founder and Chair of the East African Medical Association, Europe and was Chair of the Eritrean Medical Association, Italy. Dr. Bairu received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Instituto VII Tecnico …

Eritrea is a country that remains overshadowed by its long struggle for independence.

“Learn politeness from the impolite.”
-Egyptian Proverb

Egypt rests on the African continent in Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Libya and the Gaza Strip, and the Red Sea north of Sudan, and includes the Asian Sinai Peninsula. It’s capital is Cairo the time difference is 7 hours ahead of Washington, DC. Among all the names ancient Egypt has been known by one in particular is Kemet, from the root kem “black”, is a derivative from the fertile black soils deposited by the Nile floods. Egypt is approximately 386,660 sq miles, and is the world’s 38th-largest country, slightly more than three times the size of New Mexico. Besides the Nile Valley, the greater part of Egypt’s countryside is harsh desert land. High gusting winds are capable of forming sand dunes more than 100 feet high. Egypt includes parts of the Sahara and Libyan Deserts. These deserts were referred to as the “red land” in ancient Egypt, and they protected the Kingdom of the Pharaohs from western threats. The Nile Valley was home to one of the oldest cultures in the world, spanning three thousand years of uninterrupted history. Egyptian culture as a whole has 6,000 years of recorded history. Egypt is also the third most populous on the African continent, with an estimated 83,082,869 million people. Egypt?s capital city, Cairo, is Africa’s largest city and has been renowned for centuries as a center of learning, culture and commerce.

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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopians marched on Thursday to demand the release of a jailed opposition leader in the first political protests since a disputed 2005 election ended in street violence that killed 199 people.

Behind the scenes we have been working on getting information on how to source one of the machines in question and that line of inquiry led us to have a talk with the head of the Eritrean Veteran?s Association ? a very reasonable and … we managed to arrange a meeting involving Abraham, Dawit and friends and family and the conclusion which was reached remarkably quickly is that we should change the purpose of our collection and divert the funds into Dawit?s business. …

Mogadishu, 16 April 2009 (SomalilandPress)President Isayas Afewerki today received and held talks at the Denden Hall [in Asmara] with a British Conservative Party delegation headed by Mr Andrew Michel who is the party’s head of development cooperation.

The two sides conducted discussion on ways of fostering possible bilateral cooperation in …

Have you ever wondered why the Americans used the Kagnew Station in Asmara as the place to intercept radio messages around the world during the cold war era?

Physicians say that Asmara’s altitude in the highlands of Eritrea is a unique spot to pick up clear radio signals from thousand of miles across the world. The reception is supposed to be so good, that for example radio stations in Asmara claimed to have heard Finnish broadcasters on air occasionally. Specialists argue, that Asmara is benefiting from a natural phenomena, which has to do with the Earth Atmosphere. In the report of http://www.microkhan.com/2009/04/13/the-enigma-of-kagnew/ the explanation is  ”ducting”.

A physical expression, when rising radio signals in the earth atmosphere jump horizontally beneath the troposphere and return back to earth via “ducts” hundreds of miles away from their original source. This should explain the “magic” of the Kagnew station the report states. Read more about tropospheric “ducting”: http://weatherfaqs.org.uk/node/185.

After years of sanctions lifted six year ago, Libya hosts an international trade fair hoping to attract foreign investment and expertise to help the country modernise.

NAIROBI, March 11 (Reuters) – Eritrea on Wednesday invited
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to visit the Red Sea
state and condemned a Hague-court warrant for his arrest on
Darfur war crimes charges.

The fugitive owner of an Egyptian ferry that sank in 2006 has been sentenced to seven years in jail for involuntary manslaughter.