Tunisian President Kais Saied ordered the lifting of a two-months-old nationwide overnight curfew for people and vehicles starting midnight Saturday, 25 September, while asking citizens to continue to observe anti-coronavirus precautionary (...)
The UN has been warning of imminent famine in a number of African and Arab countries, unable until present to put together the resources necessary to prevent widespread hunger. This will be the subject of discussion of the UN General Assembly this (...)
Lebanon formed a new government after 13 months of political feuding and economic meltdown, exacerbated by the Beirut Port blast of August 2020.
The names of the cabinet ministers generated heated debate in public and political circles. Although, as (...)
Leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan Ahmed Massoud wrote on Facebook on Sunday that he welcomed a proposal by religious scholars to negotiate a settlement with the Taliban to end the fighting in the provincial capital of (...)
On Monday the last US military aircraft took off from Afghanistan. Terrorist groups exchanged congratulations over social media, hailing the Taliban victory.
The collective celebration is evidence of how intertwined terrorist networks are. The (...)
"Only those who went through that night can perhaps forgive and in doing so give the gift of forgiveness," said French President Emmanuel Macron this week as he acknowledged France's "overwhelming responsibility" in the 1994 Rwandan (...)
In an open letter published by more than 100 Associated Press employees, AP staffers from across the world demanded 'more clarity' from the company about why Emily Wilder, 22, was fired as a news associate in Phoenix only three weeks into her (...)
Khartoum is optimistic following its return to the international community, embodied by International Conference on Sudan, held in Paris on 17 May.
The economy of the war-torn country, which had been ruled by Islamists for decades, is ailing despite (...)
Ongoing for months, the Battle of Marib has left tens of Yemenis dead and thousands displaced. The city was the temporary home of millions of refugees who fled from northern Yemen following clashes between the Houthi militia and the internationally (...)
As the date of the Ethiopian general elections slated for June approaches, armed conflicts in the country are mounting amid local, regional and international fears of the disintegration of a state that has been subject to consecutive (...)
Ethiopia's political elite used Amharic for over a century as a means to unify the country and ensure the Amhara ethnic group controlled the empire. Today, however, Amharic is more of a tool for schism and division of the federal state.
Since 2019 (...)
The Ethiopian government announced last week that Eritrean forces had begun to withdraw from the Tigray region. Only a few weeks earlier, Addis Ababa admitted that Eritrean forces were involved in the civil war that has been raging in Ethiopia's (...)
Protests continue for the fourth week running against the military, who staged a coup against the legitimate government of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). Meanwhile the international community has decried the crackdown on protesters, threatening (...)
The release of Saudi activist Loujain Al-Hathloul made international newspaper headlines. Observers anticipate a change in Washington's relationship with Riyadh notwithstanding the ongoing, eight decade-long alliance between the two (...)
Reports have indicated widespread violations in the war the Ethiopian federal government is waging against its rivals from the Tigray People's Liberation Front. The war has been raging since November 2020, with no accurate information about the (...)
Once Joe Biden was sworn in as president, the new US administration started to review various decisions made under Trump, especially those of them taken at the 11th hour. The US State Department announced it was reviewing the designation of the (...)
A loud explosion was heard in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh on Tuesday, but the cause was not immediately known.
Several witnesses reported hearing two loud bangs and seeing a small plume of smoke above the capital just before 1pm local time (10am (...)
Khartoum and Addis Ababa traded placatory remarks in the last few days, following escalating tension over the border city of Fashqa. Backed by a mobilised public, each side maintained its version of a historical narrative including their (...)
Tensions are rising between Sudan and Ethiopia on the back of the failure of the last round of tripartite negotiations – with Egypt – over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). An unresolved border dispute between Khartoum and Addis Ababa has (...)
Talks held on the Qatari crisis during the Arab Quartet's boycott of Doha over the last three years had reached a dead end. This last round, however, proved to be a different story.
“Fruitful discussions have taken place during the past period, (...)
Following the collapse of civilian and military dictatorships across Africa three decades ago, the continent adopted a shift towards democracy. Many African countries formed multi-party political systems and drafted constitutions that limited (...)
Regardless of the repercussions of the ongoing conflict between Ethiopia's federal government and the Tigray region, this year has left critical marks on Ethiopia's modern history, not only because it has been full of major events, but also because (...)
Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi wrote a significant chapter in the book of Sudan's turbulent history.
Sudan closed a critical chapter in its history with the death of Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi from coronavirus last week. Al-Mahdi had led the Ansar Sufi order and the (...)
With fears mounting that conflict in Ethiopia will turn into a civil war, neighbouring countries are increasingly worried the war in Ethiopia may open another door to hell that will result in further deterioration of their complex conditions.
A case (...)
Fears are mounting that armed conflicts in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray could spread to the rest of the country and from there to the entire Horn of Africa. The bloody conflicts threaten the existence of Ethiopia as a state and the wider (...)
