Washington — The Somali government and the al-Shabab militant group have each denied having peace talks. The denial came Saturday after Abdulfatah Kasim Mohamud, a deputy defense minister and member of the parliament, said the militant group had requested talks with the government. A senior government official later officially denied receiving a request from the […]
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Mali Pardons 49 Ivorian Soldiers
The soldiers were arrested in July and accused of conspiring against the Malian government. Three had been sentenced to death in absentia. Mali’s transitional government has pardoned 49 Ivorian soldiers arrested earlier this year, a spokesman said on Friday. The soldiers were arrested in July at the airport in the Malian capital Bamako and were […]
Al-Shabaab is acquiring UAV drones The deployment of improvised explosive drones by extremist organizations is posing fresh concerns to the countries in the Horn of Africa. Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya face a growing threat, according to representatives of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). Al-Shabaab and other militant organizations are already working on the ability […]
Kampala Deputy Lord Mayor Doreen Nyanjura, has said the militarization of elections has now taken a new dimension, calling upon Ugandans to rise up and kick “gun rule” out of the country. Nyanjura explained that the military intervention in the Makerere University convocation elections is one such example. She said originally the militarization of elections […]
Bulawayo — Escalating conflict and climate change threaten the implementation of the Great Green Wall Initiative (GGWI), an ambitious land restoration project across Africa. Promoters of the Great Green Wall have called for strong political will in engendering peace and increasing investment in environmental preservation, which the project launched 16 years ago seeks to enhance. […]
Nairobi — Kenya’s Roselyn Akombe has been appointed the Chief of Peacebuilding Strategy and Partnerships at United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (UNDPPA). Akombe, who describes herself as an international civil servant, revealed she had landed the role in a tweet on Thursday. UNDPPA, which is headquartered in New York, works to prevent […]
Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo — The Congolese army has clashed with M23, an armed group, in North Kivu province, where residents face food scarcity and high prices. On normal days, the central market of Virunga in the city of Goma is bustling and lively. A labyrinth of tarpaulin-covered stalls — filled with smoked, salted […]
Political and economic insecurity in the Balkans and Libya benefit transnational trafficking syndicates. The trafficking of tobacco is a multibillion-dollar business worldwide. One of the major global smuggling routes flows through the Balkans in Eastern Europe to North Africa, where a lack of security, high corruption, porous borders, and little cooperation among countries has created […]
Police in Kampala have kicked off investigations into circumstances under which a group of UPDF soldiers raided a police station to rescue colleagues who had earlier been arrested for staging an illegal roadblock to rob members of the public. According to sources, the incident happened on Wednesday night at around 9:30 when the officer in […]
Nairobi — President William Ruto has assured of his government’s commitment to end bandit attacks in parts of Rift Valley where hundreds of people have been killed in past years during cattle raids. Just last week, two school-going children were killed and others injured in Kerio Valley where dozens of cattle were stolen. “We have […]
Police say that two car bombs targeting the homes of government officials have killed at least 35 people. The Al-Shabab terror group has claimed responsibility. The death toll following two car bombs in Somalia has risen to 35 according to Reuters news agency, citing a senior local police official. The blasts took place earlier on […]
Beleil — On Monday evening, leaders of the strife riven Daju and Rizeigat tribes signed an agreement to end hostilities under the supervision of the Vice-President of the Sovereignty Council and Commander of the Rapid support Forces (RSF), Mohamed ‘Hemeti’ Dagalo. Jurists and community activists have questioned the feasibility of quelling the violence through reconciliations. […]
While progress is being made in implementing the recent peace agreement between the Ethiopian federal government and the northern Tigray region, federal troops are now combatting rebels in the Oromia region of the country. Conflict between the federal government in Addis Ababa and the Tigray region escalated into a full-scale war in November 2020. Millions […]
Tunis/Tunisia — Tunisia severely condemned the intrusion of an Israeli minister into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. This is a blatant provocation of the Palestinian people and Muslims worldwide, reads a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The department called on the international community to fully shoulder its moral and legal responsibilities towards the […]
MONUSCO and the Congolese army want to counter the movements of the M23 rebels in the North-Kivu region as swiftly as possible, while Rwanda continues to deny its support of the group. The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — also known as MONUSCO — has launched a new […]
Mogadishu, Somalia — Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, in his New Year’s Day speech Sunday, declared the country will eliminate al-Shabab Islamist militants this year. Mohamud’s all-out war against the group, declared last year, has succeeded in pushing the militants out of some areas under their control. The president also said Somalia would also take […]
Addis Ababa — Doctors at Ayder Comprehensive Referral hospital, the biggest in war-torn Tigray Region told Addis Standard, that, “medicine supply remains in shortage” despite the peace deal. Dr Kibrom G/Selassie, CEO of the hospital, which was administered by the federal government prior to the war, said they are still waiting for medicines to resume […]
Addis Ababa — The Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) has announced, once again, a renewed military operation against the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), which the government refers to as PLF/Shene, in southern Oromia aimed at destroying the rebel group operating in the area and stabilizing the region. The army also said it has liberated several […]