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 […]
Somalia
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 […]
Kenya-Somalia agreement to gradually reopen their land border
Kenya and Somalia announced Monday an agreement to reopen at three points by July 1 their land border, officially closed since 2011 due to the […]
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 […]
Drought in Somalia could cause 135 deaths a day, says UN
The record drought in the Horn of Africa could lead to 135 deaths per day in Somalia between January and June, the Somali Ministry of […]
Suicide bombing in Somalia: 5 dead, one Governor injured
At least five people were killed and 11 others wounded, including a governor, in a suicide attack in southwestern Somalia on Tuesday, a police commander […]
Nearly 100,000 have fled the fighting in Somaliland to Ethiopia
About 100,000 people fleeing fighting in Somaliland, Somalia’s self-declared independent region, have taken refuge in a month in a remote area of Ethiopia already suffering […]
Several soldiers killed by Shebab in southern Somalia
Several Somali soldiers were killed Tuesday in an attack on a military base claimed by the Al-Shebab in a town recaptured from the radical Islamists […]
Somalia: recently released journalist jailed again
A Somali freelance journalist who was released in February after being sentenced to two months in prison for threatening national security has been jailed again, […]
Djiboutians go to the polls this Friday to elect their 65 deputies
Djibouti, a small country in the Horn of Africa with a strategic position from a military and commercial point of view, is voting on Friday […]