Browsing by Author "Dawit Belay"

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    Evaluating The Status of Land Use Land Cover Change: A Case Study of East Gojjam Zone Debre Markos Town, Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2024-02) Dawit Belay; Andenet Ashagrie (PhD)
    This research was conducted to evaluate the status of urban land use land cover change. To analyze the LULC change of this study satellite images (Landsat 1986, 2003 and 2020) have been used for retrieving information, adopting image classification method. In addition accuracy analysis has been done by comparing the reference data with the classification results to evaluate the effectiveness of the image classification. The changes between the defined years was evaluated using land use Land cover maps that belongs to different years adopting cross tabulation and overlay analysis methods. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the status of urban land use land cover change in the study area. The result indicates that the main changes in the study area were the transformation of Agricultural Lands 41.62%, 32.60 changes 22.5 % and converted into Built up lands in the study area. Accordingly, around 980 ha of area of Agricultural land were transformed to build up in the last two decades.
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    Review of Acts of International Political Organs: The African Union Approach
    (Addis Ababa University, 2012-11) Dawit Belay; Yacob Hailemariam
    Following the judgment of Reparation for Injuries Suffered case, which acknowledged lOs as bearers of right and obligations in the international plane, the debate about lOs turned to their accountability in control of their acts. Since lCJ asserted, in the case, lOs degree of personality only, the conception that their sphere of activity is strictly limited to the provision of their founding instruments has prevailed. This restriction at times has been relaxed by tl1e implied powers theOlY Even here, lOs acts can, to the most, go to those justified by objectives and purposes they pursue. Acts of lOs, thus are required to be within their mandate. Control to legality and validity of 10 acts has traditionally managed by the insertion of the doctrinal limitations such as ,"ompltellce d' alllib"tioll, d01l1oillc reserve, Itltra virus etc. however, lately, institutional mechanislTI are being included within structures of lOs. These institutions take either political or judicial form. Whichever is preferred, the institution reviews acts of oilier internal bodies within the organization. Seen froll1 this point of view, the present siuwoon of lOs is not unifarnl. In some lOs, institutional control is neglected delib erately. In some others the political means is chosen in remaining some others, judicial review is established. This study looks at the review system of the African Union. Specifically control system of the union against acts of the political organs is investigated. It is evident that starting from the eve of the transformation to AU onwards, the continental organization has reorgaruzed itself to reach the goals it aims to achieve. The study thus discusses the review of the system and argues that from the perspective of the revitalized objectives of the union and present state of international law, a number of important elements are dropped from being incorporated though the existence of the system by itself is very radical to the (OlAU.