Europe is still an attractive destination for African migrants prepared to risk their lives on dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean Sea, but as European borders become harder to breach, growing numbers are crossing the desert from Africa into Israel.  The migrants find themselves completely at the mercy of the Bedouin people smugglers who they rely on to make the crossing.  In an exclusive report, the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes met some of those being held in Egypt's Sinai desert and the people traffickers profiting from the trade.  (Watch the video report)

Letter to the Editor:  When I was in Mirmera session1972, he was a torturer security body guard and a driver to Wollo’s regional Hizb Dehninet. Some still bitterly remembers him for his betrayal and crime against his comrades. 99.9% of the operation in that night was successful except the sub-city where Fenti participated (North east of Dessie) and the rest of comrades were caught red handed with materials in use. This was a tragic moment as no one escaped the massacre of Dergue’s cadres and the news spread wild all over the province with shock. Some of the theory survived until now is that the whole members of the group were caught because somebody in the group has infiltrated or betrayed his comrades and this implies Fenti Beyene was the culprit. He is the only ALIVE person from that group and I am sure he "enjoyed" life under the Dergue as bodyguard and might have continued working under Woyane as security worker.  Read More…

By Hama Tuma:  All the outcry on what is happening in Ivory Coast brings to my mind the 2005 election in Ethiopia and how the incumbent regime lost the general election but imposed martial law, shot dead more than 200 peaceful demonstrators, jailed close to 50,000 and imprisoned more than 120 opposition leaders. There was little said by Washington or London save for a few hardy souls from the EU. The double standard and hypocrisy is nauseating. Ivory Coast sprinkles salt in our still open wound.  Read More…

Zenebe Tamirat 
In Memory of Soccer Star Mengistu Worqu