Mauritania’s Election: Stability, Security, and Slavery in the Spotlight
Mauritania, a strategically important West African nation, is heading to the polls with nearly 2 million voters set to cast their ballots. The election unfolds […]
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New Revelations: Children Executed in Ethnic Cleansing of Darfur
Recent accounts reveal one of the most horrific incidents in the year-long Sudanese civil war: the large-scale slaughter of civilians attempting to escape ethnic violence […]
Senegal’s Highest Court Confirms Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s Election Win
Senegal’s Constitutional Council recently confirmed Bassirou Diomaye Faye as the president-elect, clearing the path for him to become the country’s fifth president with his inauguration […]
Can Africa take advantage of the critical-minerals boom? — Atlantic Council
If Africa, which is home to 30% of the world’s known critical minerals, is to truly benefit from the current critical-minerals boom and buzz, then […]
Kagame and Tshisekedi Set to Confer on Eastern DRC Crisis
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has consented to hold discussions with Democratic Republic of the Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi regarding the ongoing crisis in Eastern Congo, […]
African Union members need to transfer meaningful powers to AU organs — experts
“Over the last three years 2021, 2022 and 2023, 93% of decisions have not been implemented,” the African Union Commission chairperson, Moussa Faki Mahamat, lamented […]
AU summit: Somalia accuses arch-rival Ethiopia of seeking to annex Somaliland
Somalia’s president has used the African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa to accuse Ethiopia of trying to annex part of his country’s territory by […]
Somaliland: AU calls for “restraint” from Ethiopia and Somalia
The African Union’s Peace and Security Council (PSC) on Wednesday January 17 called for “restraint” from Ethiopia and Somalia, at a meeting devoted to the […]
Three dead in suicide attack in Mogadishu
At least three people were killed and two wounded on Tuesday January 16 in a suicide attack near the offices of the mayor of the […]
African Union calls for “mutual respect” between Ethiopia and Somalia
The African Union on Thursday January 4 called for “calm” and “mutual respect” between Ethiopia and Somalia, following the renewed tensions between the two countries […]