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 (...)
While an agreement to normalise relations between Sudan and Israel was announced on 23 October, the joint military and civilian government in Khartoum will now have to show that Sudan has something to gain from it.
In late September, Sudanese (...)
Africa loses $90 billion to corruption annually. The amount is equivalent to the sum industrial countries give to the continent in the form of development assistance and direct investment.
These findings were released in a United Nations Conference (...)
The United Nations marked 1960 as the Year of Africa when 17 African countries gained independence in the largest wave to get rid of European colonialism since the 15th century.
However, none of the 17 countries were in a celebratory mood to mark 60 (...)
Some 100,000 homes damaged, 500,000 persons displaced, 100 dead, 46 injured, 43 schools damaged, more than 2,000 health centres lost at a time when they are crucial, and the grim reminder that there is more to come this month.
Sudan has been (...)
The Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) signed an agreement in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa last week. The deal came as a surprise to many.
“For Sudan to become a democratic country where the rights of (...)
Yemen has been mired in war for more than five years. In a country where there appears to be no peace at the end of the tunnel, the Yemeni people are also suffering, with the majority of the population now depending on aid.
This August marks the (...)
For decades Khartoum has abided by the “three no's” against Israel: “No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it.” Despite the mantra it kept repeating since the 1967 Arab League Summit, Khartoum didn't refrain from (...)
Tensions are back to overshadow Sudan-US relations which had seen considerable improvements since the overthrow of former Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir in April 2019.
The US State Department issued a travel warning on Thursday calling on US (...)
The Tunisian Parliament began on Thursday a vote on withdrawing confidence from Tunisian Parliament Speaker Rachid Ghannouchi.
The Tunisian parliament devoted its session today to vote on the motion submitted by dozens of MPs, led by the MPs from (...)
A vote on in the Tunisian parliament on Thursday on a motion to withdraw confidence from Speaker Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of the Islamist Ennahda movement, failed.
Only 133 MPs out of a total of 207 in the parliament attended the session.
97 (...)
Iran has seen a series of “mysterious” incidents at its strategic nuclear, military and civilian installations recently, with some 12 having been recorded in a series that culminated on Sunday at a half-century-old power station in the central (...)
Despite his relentless efforts to effect democratic change in Ethiopia (which was one of two reasons he won a Nobel Peace Prize last year), Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is facing divisions in the country that are more complex than his ability to settle (...)
The Yemeni island of Socotra fell into the hands of Yemen's southern secessionists last weekend, in a move seen as opposing the internationally recognised government of Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, which is already fighting Houthi rebels (...)
Statues and other monuments have always been powerful symbols expressing people's sentiments and aspirations and at times their desire for immortality. Some have been crafted to glorify figures from official history or have been of people considered (...)
Calm has prevailed over the borders between Sudan and Ethiopia following clashes that rendered many dead and wounded. Khartoum and Addis Ababa resumed amicable talks and it's back to business as usual between the two capitals.
Several observers have (...)
African countries have adopted different measures to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The majority of the continent's countries have enforced traditional measures, such as the closure of schools, imposing curfews and banning religious, (...)
Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok sent a letter on Tuesday to Abiy Ahmed, his Ethiopian counterpart, saying Sudan insists on its position that reaching an agreement between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia is critical before the latter starts filling (...)
Sudanese Foreign Minister Asmaa Mohamed Abdallah has announced that the country's transitional government has criminalised female genital mutilation (FGM) following decades of struggle against this still highly prevalent crime against women in (...)
