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Keeping Peace in Abyei: The Role and Contributions of Ethiopia

Jan

30

2012

Since February 2011, Abyei and South Kordofan, oil rich disputed border areas of South Sudan and Sudan, witnessed an intensive military clash between the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) forces and the military of the Government of Sudan (GoS). This reached a tipping point when the GoS forces took control of the town of Abyei ...

New Building Must See New Spirit, New African Union

Jan

30

2012

The just-begun year will mark the first 10 years of the African Union (AU). This eventful decade has ended with a momentous year of uprisings, popular protests, and more than 28 elections that have changed Africa and the world. In light of this, the upcoming AU summit will provide an excellent opportunity to reflect on ...

Monitoring the Monitor: Elections at the African Union

Jan

30

2012

With the many elections held in 2011, Africa witnessed what one may call a ‘generational progression on democracy’. Ironically, the nominations for the elections at the African Union Commission (AU Commission), which takes place in January 2012, reflects no such trend. Monitoring the Monitor: Elections at the African Union

ICC and African leaders: the good, the bad and the ugly

Jan

28

2012

The International Criminal Court (ICC) and Africa—for quite sometime now—have endured a complex relationship. For Africa, ICC is ‘the Good’, the current Chief Prosecutor is ‘the Bad’, and African leaders of governments and rebel groups implicated human rights violations are however ‘the Ugly’ argues, Mehari Taddele Maru. ICC and African leaders: the good, the bad ...

On Unconstitutional Changes of Government: The Case of Libya’s NTC

Sep

26

2011

Mehari Taddele Maru, Programme Head, African Conflict Prevention Programme, ISS Addis Ababa Office. The African Union (AU) High-Level ad hoc committee on Libya in its 14 September 2011 meeting, held in Pretoria, South Africa, reviewed the situation in Libya. The Communiqué of the ad hoc committee indicates the continuous communication between the AU Commission and ...

How the AU Should Have Recognised the Libyan NTC

Sep

4

2011

During its 291st Meeting of the AU Peace and Security Council, the African Union (AU) failed to officially recognise the National Transitional Council (NTC) in Libya. It indicated that it would grant recognition only when an ‘all-inclusive transitional government’ is established in Libya. For this reason, the former Libyan representatives to the AU, who are ...

Korea Looks to Old Ties to Share Secrets of Development

Aug

18

2011

The visit by the Korean President demonstrates its growing commitments in Ethiopia and the rest of Africa, and an opportunity for the continent to learn from Korea’s extraordinary path to development, argues Mehari Taddele Maru, Mehari.maru(at)stcross-oxford.com, who works as a conflict prevention programme coordinator in an international organisation. He has also served as legal expert ...

The Kampala Convention and its contribution in filling the protection gap in international law

Feb

12

2011

In October 2009, the African Union (AU) Summit in Kampala, Uganda, adopted the AU Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (the Kampala Convention). The principal objective of this research project is to examine a few major provisions of the Kampala Convention and offer a legal analysis of its content, novelty and ...

Articles on the Kampala Convention

Feb

12

2011

http://www.sudantribune.com/A-Strategy-for-a-peaceful,22713 http://ajol.info/index.php/ai/article/view/54669 http://ajol.info/index.php/ai/issue/view/7281 http://www.accord.org.za/publications/conflict-trends/downloads/724- http://www.africa-union.org/root/UA/Newsletter/EA/Fridays_of_the_Commission/2010/AUC%20Vol1%20FF%20Low%20Res.pdf http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2010/s2834100.htm http://en.ethiopianreporter.com/content/view/1282/1/ http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2009/s2686187.htm

Federalism and Conflict and Ethiopia

May

23

2010

At just over 77 million, Ethiopia is the third-most populous country in Africa. since 1991, Ethiopia has been implementing an ethno-linguistic federal politico-legal arrangement. As per Articles 1 and 47 of the Constitution of the Federal Democratic republic of Ethiopia, the country is a federation of nine ethno-linguistically divided regional states. These can be classified ...