At least six villagers were killed on Monday in an attack by Al-Shabab militants at a village in Kenya's coastal county of Lamu, local officials said.
Lamu County Commissioner Irungu Macharia said that the attackers, believed to have crossed over (...)
The Egyptian Banking Institute (EBI), the training arm of the Central Bank of Egypt, continues to implement its strategy to develop the human capital in the African banking sector.
Over the past months, the EBI has implemented several activities and (...)
Over the past months, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, a Nobel peace laureate, has plunged his country into a civil war that led to atrocities and famines, committing massacres and genocide against his people, specifically in the Tigray region. (...)
The United States (US) has called on Ethiopia to hold "urgent negotiations", expressing "grave concern" over the country's military escalation.
US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Secretary Anthony Blinken expressed grave concern about (...)
The Information and Decision Support Center of the Egyptian Cabinet has released a study on the trade relations between Egypt and the COMESA community, whose membership comprises 21 African countries.
The centre said that COMESA is among the most (...)
Egypt will chair the African Union's (AU) Peace and Security Council in November, according to the Egyptian ambassador to Ethiopia and permanent representative to the AU Mohamed Omar Gad.
Gad stated that the expected Egyptian chairship of the (...)
An Al-Shabab commander surrendered to the Somali National Army (SNA) on Sunday in Wajid town in Bakool region, Southwest Somalia.
Mohamed Nur, SNA army officer told reporters that Mohamed Kulow Ali who was in charge of the terror group's operations (...)
The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population dispatched, on Saturday, a military plane loaded with tonnes of medical aid provided to Somalia.
Somali Ambassador in Egypt Elias Sheikh Omar thanked President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and the Egyptian (...)
Seven people were killed and nine others wounded after a suicide car bomber detonated explosives at the El-Gab junction near the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu on Saturday, the police said.
Abdifatah Aden Hassan, the Somali police spokesman said a (...)
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed on Thursday Egypt's foreign policy during a roundtable discussion organised by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York, the foreign ministry said in a tweet.
Shoukry presented to the US-based (...)
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 (...)
If you want to visualise the financial cost of the war on terror since 11 September 2001, imagine $2 trillion when a dollar is put on top of a dollar reaching far into outer space.
Stephanie Savell
The first $1 trillion would be 67 miles high, (...)
AZHARITES IN KABUL: On the afternoon of 24 August, Al-Azhar University teacher Shawki Abu Zeid landed on a military plane in Cairo after having been evicted from Kabul in the wake of the Taliban takeover of the capital of Afghanistan.
The trip from (...)
The woman who broke barriers as the first female foreign minister and deputy prime minister in culturally conservative Somalia now aims for the country's top office as the Horn of Africa nation moves toward a long-delayed presidential (...)
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday the al-Qaeda extremist group that used Afghanistan as a staging base to attack United States 20 years ago may attempt to regenerate there following an American withdrawal that has left the Taliban in (...)
As the dangers for migrants in Yemen intensify against a backdrop of conflict and the COVID-19 crisis, nearly 5,000 Ethiopians stranded in Yemen are waiting for their chance to safely return home, the UN news center reported Wednesday.
This week, (...)
It has been 20 years since the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on 9/11 and 20 years since the start of the US war on terror. It has been 20 years filled with lessons on how to combat radicalisation and violent extremism. The (...)
Twenty years after the horrific terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the world is certainly a far more dangerous and chaotic place. It is a major historical irony that while marking this extremely sad anniversary, the US and the world are not (...)
Policy U-turns are among the fortes of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP); and the AKP government has exhibited them, once again, in Afghanistan. Only a week ago, no one would have questioned its resolve to (...)
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 (...)
A car passed, the driver's window rolled down and the man spat an epithet at two little girls wearing their hijabs: 'Terrorist!'
It was 2001, mere weeks after the twin towers at the World Trade Center fell, and 10-year-old Shahana Hanif and her (...)
Tanzania's president on Wednesday said five people are dead, including three police officers, after a gun battle with an armed man near the French Embassy in Dar es Salaam.
It was not immediately clear whether the shootout in the heavily guarded (...)
As part of Egypt's strategy to engage further with the African states, especially those in the east of the continent and around the Nile Basin, Cairo unrolled the red carpet for Prime Minister of Somalia Mohamed Hussein Roble during a visit to Egypt (...)
For nearly four decades, the Middle East has been picking up the pieces of the US strategic folly in Afghanistan and paying the price for its unending wars in the region.
The debacle led to the creation of Islamic jihad by CIA proxies that rose (...)
In violation of the schedule for the Somali elections announced on 17 July, the Somali regional states have been unable to adhere to it.
According to the schedule, senators were supposed to be elected during the period of 25 to 28 July, and the (...)
