Somalia ordered the expulsion of Kenya's ambassador after accusing neighbouring Kenya of interfering in the electoral process in Jubbaland, one of Somalia's five semi-autonomous states, the latest dispute between the two countries.
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the leader of Ethiopia's rebellious northern forces said on Monday he was still fighting close to the regional capital of Mekelle after it was captured by government troops following nearly a month of battles and air strikes.
The war in Tigray (...)
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's political slogan is "medemer" - or "coming together". But some analysts say reforms meant to unify Ethiopia have inflamed simmering ethnic and political divisions and risk unravelling Africa's second most (...)
No country has been involved in Somalia's future as much as the United States. Now the Trump administration is thinking of withdrawing the several hundred U.S. military troops from the Horn of Africa nation at what some experts call the worst (...)
The United Arab Emirates has stopped issuing new visas to citizens of 13 countries, including Iran, Syria and Somalia, according to a document issued by a state-owned business park.
The document, which was sent to companies operating in the park and (...)
Fighting between Ethiopia's military and regional forces from the northern Tigray region is seriously destabilising the East African region and hostilities should halt, the European Union foreign policy chief said.
Hundreds of people have been (...)
Paris police are under government orders to explain themselves after officers were filmed tossing migrants out of tents while evacuating a makeshift camp in the French capital.
Aid groups were working Tuesday to find temporary lodging for a few (...)
Ethiopian peacekeepers in Somalia have disarmed between 200 and 300 of their ethnic Tigrayan colleagues over the past week as conflict rages in the northern Ethiopian region, four security and diplomatic sources told Reuters.
The soldiers' weapons (...)
The Egyptian Armed Forces held an intensive series of training and development activities recently. The first-ever joint military exercise between Egypt and Sudan, the first amphibious manoeuvres, named T-1, with the UK, naval exercises with France, (...)
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 (...)
If we take the July Revolution of 1952 as our starting point in analysing the relationship between Egyptian presidents and their American counterparts, we can argue that the personal dimension in their interactions from 1952 till today has played a (...)
Police in Somalia say five people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt near the police academy in the capital, Mogadishu.
Spokesman Sadiq Adan Ali says eight other people were wounded in the blast on Tuesday. He said the (...)
At least 214,000 people have been temporarily displaced from their homes across Somalia since October due to flooding caused by heavy rains, the UN agency said on Monday.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its (...)
Fighting between Ethiopian government forces and rebellious northern leaders could spiral out of control and war crimes may have been committed, the United Nations said on Friday, as repercussions spread around the volatile Horn of Africa.
The (...)
The Ethiopian army's campaign to suppress the rebellion in the Tigray region, home to six per cent of the Ethiopian population, may have numerous local and regional repercussions, not least on the negotiations between Addis Ababa, Cairo, and (...)
On Friday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered military attacks against targets in the northern Tigray region. The region, which is autonomous to all intents and purposes, has been at odds with the prime minister since he came to power in (...)
Ethiopian jets bombed the Tigray region on Friday and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed pledged more air strikes in the escalating conflict, as reports emerged that Tigrayan forces had seized control of key federal military sites and weapons.
Civilians in (...)
Egypt chaired the African Union's (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) in October for a month-long period that rotates among the PSC's elected members. Its chairmanship ended with the unanimous approval of an Egyptian document outlining ways to (...)
President Donald Trump finalized his plan in a memo overnight and said the ceiling for fiscal 2021, which started this month, includes 6,000 unused placements from last year "that might have been used if not for the COVID-19 pandemic."
The (...)
The crisis surrounding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is a product of the manipulations of the world powers, Ethiopia's regional ambitions, and Egyptian miscalculations and mistakes.
The GERD crisis and other Nile Basin controversies (...)
Nile waters in Sudan have begun to drop to after reaching record levels, causing severe damage in several cities, the Water and Irrigation Ministry in Khartoum said Sunday.
Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok tweeted Sudan hasn't seen similar floods since (...)
France has never been absent from the Middle East theatre since the Napoleonic campaigns and the ill-fated invasion of Egypt and Syria by France between 1798 and 1801. For the two centuries that have followed France has remained a major player (...)
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that there is a risk of famine and widespread food insecurity in four countries affected by conflict _ Congo, Yemen, northeast Nigeria and South Sudan _ and the lives of millions of people are in (...)
Somali pirates have hijacked a Panama-flagged ship, a regional official told Reuters on Thursday, the first successful hijack since 2017.
The ship was travelling from the United Arab Emirates to Mogadishu port when it appeared to develop mechanical (...)
Rarely in times of peace has a Middle Eastern country expanded its military, political, economic and cultural power beyond its borders as far away and at such a rate as Turkey has in recent years.
Three decades ago Turkey's soft power remained (...)
