After months of failed attempts to stop the fighting in Tigray, Washington has announced a new raft of sanctions to be put in pace should the warring parties fail to reach a ceasefire or block humanitarian aid.
The executive order signed by US (...)
After Addis Ababa declared a ceasefire in June in the ongoing conflict between the central government in Ethiopia and the Tigray region, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) continued to advance, taking several key towns.
The Ethiopian (...)
Moves to push for peace in Ethiopia followed the World Food Programme warning this week that hundreds of thousands are in danger of famine, now that the agency in Tigray is expected to have run out of food by Friday. The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) (...)
Israel has been reinstated to the African Union two decades after it was ousted from the 55-nation pan-African bloc shortly after the union was formed in 2002 under pressure from the then Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi.
Today Israel celebrates what (...)
The Ethiopians headed to elections on Monday to choose among 46 parties and more than 9,000 candidates – "a record", according to the electoral board – even though the ruling Amhara Prosperity Party (APP) led by Abiy Ahmed has the highest chances of (...)
"I was kicked out of Washington and this was the price because we stood up and deprived Kushner of any possibility of a breakthrough."
So said Husam Zomlot, the former head of the PLO mission to the US. He was vindictively removed by the Trump (...)
Israel's attorney general announced this week that he would not intervene in the case of the Palestinian families' eviction from the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, leaving the issue to Israel's Supreme Court veridiction, in a move that (...)
A TV series that ridicules the Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, wasn't enough of a warning against running for presidency. This preceded the release of a series of audio recordings leaked at just the right time to set off a firestorm before election (...)
Fifty-one candidates hoping to run in the elections for Syria's presidency submitted their names to the country's Supreme Constitutional Court last week, the first time that such a large number had ever put themselves forward for the presidential (...)
Speculations are being made that Israel might be forced to make an agreement between the United Arab List (UAL) and a right-wing party, after a fourth election in two years ended in a stalemate with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his (...)
An Israeli high court ruling has ended months of speculation over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eligibility to form a new government by rejecting a petition that called for disqualifying him for being under a criminal (...)
Remarkably Saudi Arabia received Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, last week in a welcome show that included an air force show and a military parade with the artillery firing 21 shots, a rare salute.
Kadhimi's first visit to Riyadh since he (...)
Proposals have been announced for the establishment of a federal governing system in Sudan that would divide the country into six regions instead of the current 18 states in line with reforms agreed as part of the Juba Peace Agreement between the (...)
One of the most highly anticipated issues under US President Joe Biden is his revamping of former president Donald Trump's key policies, especially those set just before he left office.
Among them were agreements made under the so-called Abraham (...)
Nigel Farage, the current leader of the Brexit Party and former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), slammed a UK Appeal Court ruling granting refugee status to an Egyptian terrorist who has been sentenced to death in Egypt, Farage said in a (...)
Egypt's Emigration and Expatriate Affairs Minister Nabila Makram launched an initiative on Monday under the motto ‘An Egyptian Woman Worth a 100 Men' that aims to highlight the efforts made by Egyptian women abroad in supporting their country's (...)
Former US President Donald Trump did not leave office until he had laid the foundations of new policies concerning aid to the Palestinian people by Gulf countries, who also signed Washington-brokered normalisation deals with Israel. It now appears (...)
Egypt reopened the Rafah border crossing to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in both directions, said an official statement by the Palestinian embassy in Cairo.
Around two million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip use the crossing as the main gateway (...)
The UN and Washington are urging foreign troops and mercenaries to leave Libya. Letting the Libyans decide their own destiny and exercise sovereignty over their lands would be the latest move towards a stable political transition process in the (...)
Israel has denied Palestinians access to the vaccine after it rebuffed a World Health Organisation (WHO) vaccine request last week for the Palestinian health workforce as an immediate priority target group, citing shortages at home. Palestinians (...)
In his final days in office, Barack Obama sought a UN Security Council resolution to pressure Israel to stop building settlements. Donald Trump, by contrast, is working as fast as he can to finalise controversial normalisation deals between Israel (...)
While Sudan has been approaching a decisive step in its history after languishing under American sanctions for nearly three decades, the dream of finally seeing them lifted seems to be dissipating as the US Senate seeks to push a draft resolution (...)
