East Africa

In Kenya, the well-known environmental activist Joannah Stutchbury (67) was shot dead by four weapons on Thursday night outside her home. She got out of the car to clear branches that were blocking the way to her house. The perpetrators are still unknown on this day. About 40 NGOs and environmental associations have issued a joint statement and even President Kenyatta has responded.…

Somali government troops recapture strategic town from al-Shabaab militants MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somali national army took over the town of Ba'adweyn in Mudug, central Somalia, senior military officials said, hours after deadly clashes with Al-Shabaab militants, which had driven them from the strategic center. Al-Shabaab captured the city a few weeks ago after a fierce shootout with government…

TDF releases prisoners of war as internal conflict escalates in northern Ethiopia NAIROBI, Kenya - A thousand prisoners of war were released by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray otherwise known as the Tigray Defense Forces , following their arrest and incarceration during the war in the region. Earlier this month, TDF marched thousands of Ethiopian national defense forces…

US slows down al-Shabaab crackdown in Somalia amid upsurge in terrorist attacks MOGADISHU, Somalia - For seven months, the United States slowed down operations against Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia, in a strategy widely criticized by local actors, who believe that US Africa Command's efforts were still needed to eradicate them. activists. On January 19, an American plane opened fire on a…

It is a national hunt that has kept the country in suspense that has just ended. The 34-year-old is suspected of having shot two men to death earlier this month: one of her police officers and a businessman with whom she had an affair. as reported from Nairobi, Albane ThirouardCaroline Kangogo's body, wanted the policewoman…

NAIROBI, Kenya - Ethiopian authorities on Thursday withdrew Addis Ababa Standard's license, a move widely condemned as a strategy to gag independent media in the conflict-ridden Horn of Africa country. Ethiopia has been embroiled in a deadly internal war for eight months between the Ethiopian National Defense Forces and its partners against the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray otherwise known as the Tigray Defense Forces . Earlier this week, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed indicated the possibility of suspending…

The military force of the South African Development Community was due to arrive in the province of Cabo Delgado on Thursday, plagued by a jihadist uprising, at the official request of Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi, but it never arrived. As expected yesterday, SADC has finally postponed the dispatch of its troops to…

In the city of Dansha, west of Tigray, the Amharase militias are preparing for the next Tigrayan offensive. Reportage. With our special correspondent in Dansha,Noé Rochet-Bodin When she is not patrolling the countryside, 33-year-old Fanos Tchekole finds her three children at the café she runs in Dansha. "We were told we would go on duty and we went out, we spent the week in the woods," she says. We can not find rest, we are still suffering, until now. I left these kids to go, I stayed there for 5 or 6 days without…

In Ethiopia, the media regulator on Thursday canceled the license for Addis Standard, one of the country's last independent publications, in the midst of an increasingly oppressive context in the capital, for journalists covering the war as well as for civilians of Tigraian origin. The media supervisor accuses Addis Standard of…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - At least 11 al-Shabaab militants killed by Kenya Defense Forces in Kudha, Jubaland, a senior military official said during the latest crackdown on the group, which also controls large rural areas of central and southern Somalia. Wednesday's KDF operation was the last in Somalia to be carried out and comes as AMISOM troops work hard to implement Somalia's transition plan. before officially leaving Somalia. David Goldman, director of counterterrorism, national security and intelligence analysis at…