Somalia: Attack on a military base at the start of the withdrawal of AU forces
Radical Islamist al-Shebab attacked a military base 450 kilometers west of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and witnesses said, as the African Union […]
Ethiopia
Eritrea returns to East African regional group IGAD
Eritrea has rejoined the East African regional bloc, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), almost 16 years after withdrawing from it, announced Information Minister Yeman […]
Washington suspends food aid to Ethiopia due to misappropriations
The US Government has announced the suspension of its food aid to Ethiopia due to a massive detour of this assistance, the US Agency for […]
Kenya to strengthen trade relations with Russia
Kenya will strengthen its trade relations with Russia, the Nairobi authorities announced on Monday during a surprise visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The […]
Sub-saharan Africa saw a record 16.5 mil. internally displaced people in 2022 – report
A “perfect storm” of overlapping conflicts in African countries and Ukraine, coupled with climate change-triggered disasters around the world forced a record 71.1 million people […]
A leader of the Ethiopian Prime Minister’s party was assassinated
A leader of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s party, including the party chief in the recently troubled Amhara region, was assassinated on Thursday, Abiy himself […]
Ethiopia: Calm returns to major cities in Amhara
Calm had returned to the main towns in Ethiopia’s Amhara region by Thursday, according to residents, after several days of unrest following the federal government’s […]
Two aid workers killed in Ethiopia
Two employees of the humanitarian organization Catholic Relief Services (CRS) were shot dead over the weekend in Amhara, a region in northern Ethiopia that has […]
Mozambique will vaccinate hundreds of thousands of people against cholera
The Mozambican government and the World Health Organization (WHO) started, end of last week, the deployment of rehydration and cholera vaccination posts in the districts […]
Ethiopia slams US ‘inflammatory’ war crimes allegations committed during Tigray conflict
Ethiopia’s government has accused the United States of taking a “partisan” approach by alleging that its forces, and Eritrean troops, had committed war crimes during […]