MOGADISHU — The Intergovernmental Authority on Development on Wednesday welcomed Somalia’s ratification of the new IGAD Treaty, calling it a significant step toward stronger regional cooperation and integration across the Horn of Africa. Somalia’s House of the People approved the treaty by show of hands after the agreement was presented by Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ali Omar Balcad, who urged lawmakers to endorse it as essential to the country’s regional engagement and political stability. According to Speaker…

The European Union will press ahead with global climate cooperation despite the United States moving to withdraw from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, the EU’s climate chief said, a day after President Donald Trump announced plans to exit dozens of international bodies. “The decision by the world’s largest economy and second-largest emitter to retreat from it is regrettable and unfortunate,” Wopke Hoekstra said in a post on LinkedIn, referring to the UNFCCC, widely described as the bedrock treaty underpinning…

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…