East Africa

ASMARA, Eritrea - President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo traveled to Asmara on Sunday after a brief stay in Juba, South Sudan, and will be at the Red Sea for the next two days, where he is expected to sign a series of bilateral cooperation agreements with Eritrea, an enemy basin allied nearly seven months later. the signing of a similar agreement. At Asmara International Airport, Farmajo, who is on his second global journey for the first time since February, received an encouraging reception from his host, Isaias…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo's government has once again been ousted for alleged human rights abuses with a top UN investigator citing serious incidents that could put Mogadishu at odds with international partners. The concerns, it appears, are also highlighted in a report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, which is responsible for protecting the oppressed from being opposed by organized groups, and the team could now shift focus to the Horn of Africa nation.…

EL WAK, Somalia - Several troops from the Kenya Defense Forces have been deployed along the border between Kenya and Somalia near the Gedo region, reports show, amid simmering tensions between troops from the two neighboring countries that have been in harmony for a few years now. The last three weeks have been tough in the region with civilians taking to the streets of the border town of Balad-Hawo and accusing the KDF team of committing "crimes against humanity" to Somali people. The protests have been frequent…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Elections in Somalia will continue as planned, said the newly appointed Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble, just days after the election calendar was released, adding that his main mandate is to ensure that the votes are held within the stipulated time as planned in the agreement. Somalia stakeholders agreed to hold elections from next month, when the current government's term expires, months after accusations and counter-accusations over the model and date of the vote, culminating in at least…

JUBA: The Sudanese government and rebel groups on Saturday signed a landmark peace deal aimed at ending decades of war in which hundreds of thousands died. Ululs and cheers sounded one by one, representatives of the transitional government and rebel groups signed the agreement, a year after the peace talks began, at a ceremony in the South Sudanese capital Juba. "Today we have reached a peace agreement. We are happy. We are done with the mission," said Tut Gatluak, head of the South Sudanese Mediation Team shortly…

The Sudanese government and rebel leaders signed a peace deal this Saturday, October 3, in Juba, South Sudan, to end 17 years of deadly war. From our correspondent in the region, This historic agreement is the formal successor progress achieved in August last year. The two parties already agreed on the main points of this historic agreement. Everyhad put his initials on the documentthen negotiations continued until the formal signing, which took place at noon on Saturday. The August text contained a three-year…

Three men suspected of being involved in the 1994 Rwandan genocide have been arrested and charged in Belgium with serious human rights abuses, prosecutors said on Saturday. The office gave no details about the three, but said their identity had been established using testimony collected in Rwanda by a Belgian investigation. "Two were arrested on Tuesday in Brussels and the third on Wednesday in Hainault (province)," said Eric Van Duyse, a spokesman for the Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office. "All three have been…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A member of the Somali National Army was struck on Thursday with a death sentence after being convicted of rape, the military court confirmed in the latest major ruling demonstrating Somalia's ability to fight impunity among government officials. Mohamed Hussein Elmi, who had served in the army for a few years, was found guilty of raping a 4-year-old girl from the Wadajir District of Mogadishu in an incident that caused outrage among the public and those from civil society when it was first…

Three Rwandans were arrested in Belgium. This information from the Belgian newspaper Le Vif was confirmed by the Federal Prosecutor's Office. Arrests in connection with the 1994 genocide investigation in Rwanda that had claimed 800,000 victims, mostly Tutsis. These arrests took place on Tuesday and Wednesday in Brussels and in the province of Hainaut. According to the federal prosecutor's office, these three people were wanted for "serious violations of international humanitarian law". These are two separate, but very…

NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya is not familiar with plans by the US military to carry out drone strikes on its territory, President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Thursday, just days after reports surfaced, with the transition now set to ignore possible conflicts between the two traditional allies, which have often cooperation in the fight against terrorism. In an interview with the France 24 channel during his three-day trip, Uhuru denied knowledge of such plans, adding that even in the event that such a request was made, it would…