East Africa

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Former Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has accused Farmajo administration of suppressing the parents and the critics by the utilization of the police, following protests in opposition to his administration in Mogadishu, the nation's capital on Tuesday.

NAIROBI, Kenya - A excessive US army officer visited Kenya on Tuesday, his second journey to Nairobi in as many months, amid plans by Washington to withdraw close to 700 servicemen who're serving to throughout the battle in opposition to Al-Shabaab in Somalia, a country that is combating instability ensuing from frequent inter-clan conflicts, sturdy inside politics and rising insurgency.

The European Union is positioning itself in relation to the disaster within the Tigray area of Ethiopia. Brussels will sanction Addis Ababa by suspending the fee of finances help. A choice that's a part of the decision for the 27 European international locations to finish hostilities. Involved concerning the deteriorating…

Some 2.3 million youngsters in Ethiopia's northern Tigray area haven't had entry to humanitarian help because the battle started in early November, in accordance with the United Nations Youngsters's Fund (UNICEF). In an announcement late on Tuesday, UNICEF warned that hundreds of thousands of kids had been minimize off from humanitarian help regardless of an entry settlement reached earlier this month. It claimed that the scenario would worsen if help within the north was delayed as a result of the…

Because the virus appeared within the nation in March final 12 months, the variety of deaths because of the pandemic appears restricted, regardless of the robust unfold of it all through the territory. A scientific research performed by the Institut Pasteur de Madagascar with the Ministry of Well being reveals that 40% of the inhabitants has been contaminated with the virus.…

This whole procedure is completely absurd, I do not know if you can imagine, but to kidnap someone and get it approved by a state governed by the rule of law which is the Rwandan state, and the rest is of the same kind, that is, he can not even meet his lawyer . There are two lawyers appointed by the government, we waited three months before these lawyers were withdrawn by the same government. The president of Kigali could meet him, but now it is no longer possible because he is in Covid. So there…

Communication has been re-established in the capital Tigray, Mekele and several other cities in the region. But many areas are still cut off from the world, international organizations worry. The visit of Sudan's Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok this Sunday in Addis Ababa was canceled without explanation. Mediation unnecessary for the Ethiopian government, which claims that the events in Tigray are an…

The kitchen is burning between Kenya and Somalia. Mogadishu severed diplomatic ties with its southern neighbor on Tuesday, December 14. Kenyan diplomats have seven days to go away Somali territory. Within the course of, Nairobi introduced that the consulate will open subsequent March in Somaliland, this self-proclaimed impartial area that Somalia considers a part of its territory. Within the context…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is so far the only humanitarian organization that has been able to gain access to the Ethiopian region of Tigray after a month of conflict. A supply convoy from the hospital in the provincial capital Mekele reached the city on Monday, December 14. Our guest is the President of the ICRC, Peter Maurer. He was in Paris to meet with French President…

Is Rwanda experiencing a second wave of Covid-19? In current days, the nation has registered a peak in contamination, with a few hundred circumstances detected per day. Figures have hardly ever been reached for the reason that pandemic started in Rwanda, which has to this point been comparatively sparse. The federal government, which in current weeks has reopened sure sectors of the economic system,…