East Africa

It is always difficult to really see clearly the situation in Tigray where communication is still interrupted. Nevertheless, the Ethiopian government has continued to communicate its successes on the ground since launching its offensive against the Tigray People's Liberation Front 13 days ago. The government has announced a new term. The federal army would now have control of Alamata, a city located at the southern tip of the Tigray. Information confirmed by a Tigrayan source. This town, in the heart of a cotton…

A parent who was provided with cash demanded to pay the school's school fees with bags of rice that she grew, which led principal Mike Ssekaggo to request a test before approving. Eventually he did. Many other parents in African countries, who cannot pay in cash or kindly, say that their children will have to miss the new semester when lessons resume after months of delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Ssekaggo, principal of Wampeewo Ntakke Secondary School on the outskirts of Uganda's capital…

The battle in Ethiopia continues to escalate as collisions between the Ethiopian federal authorities and Tigray forces threaten to destabilize the broader Horn of Africa area. Extra regional actors have been drawn into the two-week navy offensive with Sudan forward of an inflow of hundreds of refugees and Eritrea concentrating on Tigray's rocket assaults over the weekend. Ethiopian Prime Minister Ahmed Abiy launched the marketing campaign in Tigray on November 4 after accusing native forces of…

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and his newly appointed Ethiopian counterpart Demeke Mekonnen discussed the conflict in the country's Tigray region in a telephone conversation on Sunday. Demeke informed Çavuşoğlu about Ethiopia's goals for the implementation of the current operation in Tigray, says a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On November 4, Ethiopia launched a military campaign against the forces of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which attacked the Northern Army's…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Wadajir celebration chief Abdirahman Abdishakur warned towards holding elections in Mogadishu, arguing that his celebration and different opposition factions ought to approve the vote as a part of a pre-election consensus. With only a few weeks to go till the nationwide elections, Somalia is on the point of one other pre-election disaster regardless of the preliminary settlement, after the federal authorities proposed the names of former spies to the election committee who've been handed over…

DOHA, Qatar - With just some months to go earlier than the long-awaited elections in Somalia, the election environment continues to create a rift within the nation, a transfer that threatens plans to carry free and truthful polls, which might result in retaliation from members of the worldwide group. On Sunday, UN Particular Consultant for Somalia met with James Swan, prime officers from Qatar, one of many major stakeholders in Somalia's improvement agenda, to debate the present disaster for concern it might have an…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The controversy surrounding the number of Somaliland's nomination committee members continues to escalate with Senate Spokesman Abdi Hashi, now calling for United Nations and African Union intervention, within the ultimate twist that might observe the implementation of the settlement earlier than the Somali elections. Somaliland's Nomination Committee workforce is able to maintain elections for the secessionist area with winners anticipated to affix the remainder of Somalia's Senate, though the…

For the first time in the Malagasy mining sector, Madagascar representatives of major mining and craft operations, who regularly opposed each other, sat around the same table. The aim: to discuss the way out of the crisis caused by the coronavirus, but also to oppose the reform of the mining law, whose new taxation could plague the already gloomy sector.…

CAIRO / AMMAN Syria's high diplomat and longtime international minister, Walid al-Moalem, a staunch defender of Syrian President Bashar al Assad's bloody violence towards peaceable protesters that sparked a decade - previous battle, died Monday, the federal government mentioned. There have been no particulars on the reason for demise, however the 79-year-old had been ill for years with coronary heart issues. A supply near the Syrian authorities mentioned it was extensively anticipated that his deputy, veteran…

On the run from a fratricidal war that has been going on since the beginning of November, more and more Ethiopians are taking refuge in neighboring Sudan. In less than a week, 25,000 refugees arrived in Sudan (SUNA bureau). They are currently stacking a few kilometers from the border, in the village of El Hashaga. The vast majority are Tigrayans. Some did not cross the border unscathed.…