Africa

By :BBC WORLD The authorities in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray have denied a UN allegation that its forces stole fuel from a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse. WFP head David Beasley said...

Administrator Samantha Power will travel to Sudan and Ethiopia July 31–August 4 to strengthen the U.S. Government’s partnership with Sudan’s transitional leaders and citizens, explore how to expand USAID’s support for Sudan’s transition to a civilian-led democracy, and continue to press the Government of...

In recent decades Ivory Coast has proved to be something of a bell-weather country for political and economic stability across West Africa, which makes the fact that there is such an alarming knowledge deficit about it in the Anglosphere particularly regrettable. Politically the situation...

By: Dr. Hsueh Jui-yuan, Minister of Health and Welfare Taiwan (R.O.C.) The three years of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a terrible loss of life and exacerbated health inequalities. The global economy slumped and, worldwide, people’s lives...

Suhayb Abdirahman, 12, works as a porter in Gobanimo market in Hargeisa. He works more than 12 hours a day ferrying goods weighing up to 40 kg for customers on his handcart. He takes around $5 home with him. The family lives around four kilometres...

Electoral body to announce new date for voting in four counties as sporadic political violence claims another life. BY:Hamza Mohamed Nairobi, Kenya - Kenya's electoral commission has postponed for the second time in two days the presidential election rerun in some parts of the country's western region over security...

More than 1000 members of the ruling EPRDF’s movers and shakers are gathered in the lake city of Hawassa, the capital of the Southern Nations Nationalities and People’s Regional state, (SNNPR), in what is largely seen as the most decisive congress of the collation...

By:Anadolu Agency   Great number of Muslims in capital Addis Ababa flock to mosques to perform Eid prayer Muslims in Ethiopia has been celebrating the first day of the Eid al-Adha, a four-day religious holiday, on Sunday. In the capital Addis Ababa, hundreds of thousands of Muslims turned...

 The United Kingdom (UK) has expressed its readiness to support Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s broad reforms, especially on the economic and facilitating economic cooperation between Ethiopia and Eritrea. In an exclusive interview with ENA, UK Ambassador to Ethiopia, Susanna Moorehead said Ethiopia is UK’s largest...

By:IOM  At least 20 people have drowned after smugglers threw dozens of migrants overboard early Wednesday morning during their journey from Djibouti to Yemen, the third such incident on the Gulf of Aden in six months. Survivors receiving medical treatment at the International Organization for Migration...