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Trump orders strikes in Venezuela, announces Maduro capture, as U.S. flexes muscle in multiple theaters Donald Trump returned to office vowing to be a peace president. Nearly a year later, he is leaning hard on military force. The U.S. president on Tuesday ordered large-scale strikes in Venezuela and announced that Nicolás Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country — a stunning escalation that follows a Christmas Day operation in Nigeria and fresh warnings aimed at Iran. Trump said U.S. forces were “locked and…

Somalia’s president has condemned Israel’s recognition of the breakaway region of North Western State of Somalia as a “naked invasion,” warning that Mogadishu will not allow its territory to be used as a base for Israel to pursue regional conflicts. Addressing an emergency joint session of parliament on Sunday, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of committing the “greatest abuse” of Somalia’s sovereignty in the nation’s history and referred to Israel as an “enemy.” Lawmakers…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia has renewed its push for sea access, calling it a national necessity tied to regional cooperation, economic growth and stability in the Horn of Africa, according to a new government-backed report presented in the capital. The document, unveiled by senior officials and allied experts, argues that Ethiopia’s campaign to secure a seaport rests on international law, historical justice and principles of cooperative engagement with neighbors. Framing the issue as an urgent matter of state policy,…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump repeatedly called Somali immigrants in the United States “garbage” during a televised Cabinet meeting, sharpening years of incendiary rhetoric on immigration and drawing swift condemnation at home and abroad. In the meeting’s two-minute finale Tuesday, Trump said four times in seven seconds that “Somali immigrants are garbage,” then added five times, “We don’t want ’em in our country.” He continued: “Let ’em go back to where they came from and fix it.” Cabinet members applauded. Vice…

FILE - Nebiyu Tedla, Ethiopia's Deputy Permanent Representative to the African Union, speaks at a press conference in Addis Ababa. Another day in Mogadishu (AX) – Ethiopia's diplomat, Nebiyu Tedla, had a few choice words for recent statements made by Somalia's Foreign Minister, Ahmed Moalim Fiqi. Tedla called Fiqi's warning about Somalia potentially aligning with Ethiopian opposition factions, including the TPLF, downright "ridiculous." This friction emerged after Ethiopia cozied up to Somaliland, an autonomous region…

Malian authorities announced the death of the man accused of trying to assassinate the interim president on Sunday night, July 25. This news leaves many questions unanswered as the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) requests an investigation. The government announced in its statement that an autopsy had been ordered to…

The Congolese opposition has been very quiet since the presidential election it lost in March last year. The Action Committee for Renewal (CAR) came out of the woods on Wednesday, July 7th. Its president has asked some 20 groups, and even free voters, to set up a framework for reflection on the revision of the opposition, one year from elections to legislation and local group 2022.…

While the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund will soon meet to decide on a new loan to be granted to Cameroon, NGOs and civil society organizations are calling on the international organization to demand anti-corruption measures in exchange for government. this loan. Mid-May, a review by the Supreme Court's…

Oumar Sylla is today a bit of the main character, who reminds of the oppression that is taking place today in Guinea, against opponents and critical voices in power. And so he has been in arbitrary detention for more than seven months, since he was arrested in September 2020 in Conakry, while preparing to take part in a banned demonstration. This led to him being sentenced in January 2021 to eleven months in prison. It should also be remembered that he had to wait four months to be tried. He even…

Two days after the announcement of the transitional government, presented by the new authorities as a unity government, citizens' actions were coordinated on Tuesday. It is this movement, Wakit Tama, made up of civil society organizations and opposition political parties, that is leading the popular protest against the new transitional authorities.…