Addis Abeba — The federal police commission said a joint emergency meeting between the federal and and regional states police commissioners was held on Friday at the Ethiopian Federal Police Headquarters. The meeting “focused on current national security issues,” the federal police said. The police commissioners discussed in details topics related to the current national […]
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Abuja, Nigeria — Nigeria’s human rights commission said Friday it will probe a report that the Nigerian military has secretly run an abortion program that terminated thousands of pregnancies among women and girls who were rescued from Boko Haram militants. The report said most of the abortions involved tricking or forcing women to take pills […]
Juba (South Sudan) — International organizations and associations called for the expulsion of Morocco from the African Union, due to its occupation of parts of the Sahrawi Republic, the founding member of the African Union, during a conference called “From Conflict to Beloved Communities”, which held as series of international gatherings on Peace, Justice, and […]
Geneva — The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, reports it is stepping up critical aid to thousands of refugees and internally displaced people in conflict-ridden northern Ethiopia. Aid agencies report they now have unhindered access to Ethiopia’s northern Tigray, Afar and Amhara regions. They say the November 2 peace agreement signed between the Ethiopian government and […]
This Is a Summary of What Was Said By UNHCR Representative in Ethiopia, Mamadou Dian Balde – to Whom Quoted Text May Be Attributed – At Today’s Press Briefing At the Palais Des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is stepping up assistance to conflict-affected populations in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray, Afar and Amhara […]
The East African Community decided to deploy troops in one of its member states for the first time in June 2022. The deployment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will test the regional body’s ability to respond to complex conflicts. Already, the regional bloc has scored some early victories. Most significantly, on 6 […]
“Of course, there will always be pressure from all quarters, wanting to induce security forces, not just the military, the security force, the police. And that’s what criminal enterprise is all about.” The Nigerian military is, during every general election season, always under pressure to compromise the elections, the Chief of Defence Staff, Lucky Irabor, […]
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor, has vowed that the personnel of the Nigerian Army would resist all pressures from politicians to compromise the 2023 general elections. He also dismissed a report by an international medium alleging that the Nigerian Army was ‘conducting a secret, systemic and illegal abortions in the North-east, […]
“Of course, there will always be pressure from all quarters, wanting to induce security forces, not just the military, the security force, the police. And that’s what criminal enterprise is all about.” The Nigerian military is, during every general election season, always under pressure to compromise the elections, the Chief of Defence Staff, Lucky Irabor, […]
A leading NISA official perished in a bomb attack in Gedo region near Kenya border on Thursday night l. Col. Abdirahman Abdullahi Adan Bakaal was killed in a bomb attached to his car that exploded shortly he left Luuq town and heading to Dolow within Gedo region. Bakaal was the NISA’s commander in charge of […]
Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, Uganda — ‘If they keep on reducing aid, it keeps adding more trauma.’ Refugees in Uganda are facing increasing hunger and some are considering returning to their home countries as funding shortages force the World Food Programme (WFP) to cut rations for the third time in as many years. Uganda hosts […]
Addis Ababa — A silent catastrophe is unfolding in Ethiopia on the backdrop of years of inter-communal conflict and the most prolonged and severe drought in recent years. High inflation and food insecurity in the drought-ravaged country is among the worst in the world. The risk of losing an entire generation of children is imminent […]
Throughout South Sudan’s Greater Upper Nile Region “desperation is rising” as escalating armed conflict, which has displaced at least 20,000 people since August, have forced some to run for their lives up to four times, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Wednesday. South Sudan: ‘Raw violence’ displaces thousands during ‘ruthless conflict’, UNHCR says Throughout […]
Antwerp, Belgium — Some say the international community’s investment in a ‘role model’ refugee hosting country constrained the push for accountability. In 2018, as Uganda was catering for hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese escaping conflict across the border, a major corruption and mismanagement scandal hit the country’s widely praised refugee programme. The scandal, which […]
The M23 rebel group has said in a statement that they are ready to withdraw from occupied areas in eastern Congo. However, this comes amid reports of renewed fighting and as the DRC accuses M23 of killing 272 civilians. The Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 rebel group, fighting in the country’s east, on Tuesday said […]
Monrovia — A leading Liberian clergyman, Rev. Dr. Kortu K Brown, says it is unacceptable for elements or supporters of Ruling and/or Non-ruling parties to threaten the peace and tranquility of Liberia. On Monday, Lewis Brown, Chair of Alexander Cummings’ presidential election team, was attacked by those believed to be members of the ruling Coalition […]
While dodging media scrutiny at home, Mr Tinubu submits to foreign media in London where he tried to defend Buhari’s failure in the area of insecurity. The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2023 poll, Bola Tinubu, has said the West is not yet comfortable with the Buhari administration, a reason he […]
The Nigerian state has come under severe security stress in recent times. It has faced multiple national security threats: jihadist groups in the north-east; armed bandits in the north-west; militia secessionists in the south-east; and militancy in the south-south. Thousands of people have died or been displaced. Hardly a day goes by without reports of […]