Addis Ababa Archives - Intervention

Awaiting UNIJOS’s Prof Victor Adetula on Corruption and Democratic Recovery in Africa @ 2025 Billy Dudley Lecture August 25th

Posted By: adminon: August 19, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Abuja, Addis Ababa, Billy Dudley, Cairo, International development circuit, Johannesburg, NPSA, Political Science, UI, UNNo CommentsViews:

The Political Science establishment in Nigeria is stepping into an intense intellectual scrutiny of what the phenomenon of corruption might be doing to democratic recovery on the African con... Read more

The Good News From the News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN)

Posted By: adminon: December 22, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: 'CNN Effect', Abidjan, Addis Ababa, FRCN, Johannesburg, NAN, NIIA, NTA, VONNo CommentsViews:

It doesn’t appear to have enjoyed great hailing in Nigeria but it is a truly positive development in terms of nationalist enactment of Nigeria. The development under reference is the News Ag... Read more

Did American Intelligence Foresee Crash of Ethiopian Airliner?

Posted By: adminon: March 11, 2019In: FlashbackTags: Addis Ababa, Bole International Airport, EthiopianNo CommentsViews:

Could American intelligence have picked up pieces of information suggesting the fate that befell the Ethiopian airliner that crashed within minutes of take-off from the Bole International Ai... Read more

What Ghanaian President Said at Hugh Masekela’s Burial in South Africa

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2018In: People in ActionTags: Addis Ababa, AU Summit, Keteke, NELSON MANDELANo CommentsViews:

Tribute by The President of the Republic Of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, At The Funeral Of Hugh Masakela, On Tuesday, 30th January, 2018, In Johannesburg, South Africa I had to come,... Read more

Olu Adeniji, Former Foreign Affairs Minister, is Dead

Posted By: adminon: November 29, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Addis Ababa, Alhaji Sule Lamido, OAUNo CommentsViews:

Nigeria has lost a career diplomat and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olu Adeniji. He was 83 years at death. Adeniji was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2006 under... Read more

Were They Not Talking About Nigeria in 2019 From Kigali in 2014?

Posted By: adminon: July 03, 2017In: SpectacleTags: Addis Ababa, AfDB, Benjamin Mkapa, Dlamini-Zuma, Mo Ibrahim, olusegun Obasanjo, Paul Kagame, Thabo Mbeki, William RutoNo CommentsViews:

This video below is enigmatic. When it landed for Intervention on June 29th, 2017, one initial response to our inquiry was that the event in the video took place in Addis Ababa the previous... Read more

A Professorial Snap of Current African leadership

Posted By: adminon: February 02, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: Addis Ababa, African leadership, African Refugees, AU Summit, Fanon, JACOB ZUMA, Prof Okey Onyejekwe, TrumpNo CommentsViews:

A Professorial Snap of Current African leadership “Zuma’s statement sounds good at face value but, on serious reflection, it demonstrates the woeful failure of African leadership. Gathered... Read more

The USA and China in Ethiopia

Posted By: adminon: January 06, 2017In: FlashbackTags: Addis Ababa, CHINA, China Railway Engineering Corporation, Ethiopia's Parliamentary Federalism, Heilemariam Desalegn, US Department of StateNo CommentsViews:

The USA and China in Ethiopia By Niv Horesh “Ethiopia’s political ripple a big test for infrastructure-led Chinese approach” is the original title of this piece extracted from “The Conversat... Read more

The Most Powerful African You’ve Never Heard Of

Posted By: adminon: November 19, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Addis Ababa, Africa, Dr Ayo Ajayi, Egypt, Ethiopia, HIV/AIDS, Mozambique, NGO, SIMON ALLISON, Somalia, Tanzania, ZambiaNo CommentsViews:

By Simon Allison A July 15th, 2015 piece in Johannesburg based Daily Maverick, this is republished for whatever it adds to African self-representation. Daily Maverick introduces Simon Alliso... Read more