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As fighting continues between government forces and Tigrayan rebels, it is a new concern for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed: a new front was opened last weekend between Afars and Issas. It is a strategic and controversial sector between the Afar and Somali regions. Somali authorities accuse Afar militia members of committing a massacre in a city and reviving an already protracted conflict between these two neighboring peoples in the northeast. The battlefield is a long corridor that crosses the Afar region from south to…

Kenya opens airspace for planes to Somalia weeks after shutdown NAIROBI, Kenya - After several weeks of closure, Kenya has finally opened up airspace for planes bound for Somalia, which could help cut expenses for many passengers who use the often busy route most of the time. For weeks, passengers flying from Nairobi to Mogadishu and back, used Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as a connecting route,…

This Wednesday, Rwanda marked the 27th anniversary of the Tutsi genocide on April 7, 1994. On Thursday, France will open its archives. The documents will be made available to the public from Thursday 8 April by the National Archives. They provide a better understanding of the position of the French authorities at the time, which until a few days ago was an explosive subject between Paris and Kigali.…

The United States on Thursday announced the opening of a "virtual" diplomatic mission in Western Sahara. In early December, Donald Trump announced that the United States recognized Moroccan sovereignty over this disputed territory. In return for the normalization of relations between Morocco and Israel, Donald Trump on December…

Whereas the Ethiopian military has been combating the dissident TPLF occasion in Tigray province for greater than a month and a half of, since final week it has additionally been engaged to the Sudanese military on the border between the 2 international locations. Here is the time selected by way of High Minister Abiy Ahmed to bring out a brand new operation within the state of Benishandul Gumuz, within…

In Chad, the second inclusive national forum opened yesterday, Thursday 29 October. It was convened by the government to assess the implementation of the new constitution, which has been in place since 2018. On the first day of this meeting, the boycott of the largest unions and part of the opposition, participants agreed on the need to abolish the confession seat introduced by the current Constitution…