East Africa

MOGADISHU, Somalia - In an effort to keep away from a constitutional ruling, Somalia's new Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble has issued a round to the caretaker, which has but to get replaced and whose keep is being questioned by some quarters. Below the present constitutional dispensation, a cupboard ceases to exist when the appointing authority leaves workplace. All the present cupboard ministers had been appointed by Hassan Ali Khaire, who was ousted by MPs in July following a violent fallout with President Mohamed…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A contingent of the Somali Nationwide Military Allied elite Gorgor troopers have been attacked by al-Shabaab militants on Saturday, stories present, amid ongoing operations to wipe out the al-Qaeda-linked group that has been terrorizing the nation for practically a decade. Eyewitnesses stated an improvised explosive machine aimed toward a convoy transporting provides to the troops, it was detonated close to Awdhegle city in Decrease Shabelle, inflicting huge destruction. The town was not too long ago…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia-based Al-Shabaab militants have as soon as once more raided a navy base in Somalia, with a rising variety of such instances more likely to provoke a pointy response from the African Union Mission Forces within the Horn of Africa, which has performed operations towards militants in practically 20 years. Preliminary studies are intimate that Al-Shabaab militants raided a Kenya protection Ahead-looking bases in Abdalla Birole and Taabta, positioned in Decrease Jubba, a area that has struggled to…

According to the Tigray regional government since Monday, the government of Addis Ababa is unconstitutional. October 5 should have marked the start of the new term in the federal parliament, but the election was postponed. The state of Tigray therefore wants a transitional government pending the vote. Getachew Reda is a member of the executive committee of the TPLF, the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, which runs the region. According to him, from Monday there will be no more federal government, that is, no more…

According to survivors rescued by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), smugglers "violently pushed young men and women out of the boat." There are eight dead and 12 missing among these migrants trying to return to the Horn of Africa. It is a horror scene that on Sunday, October 4, described the International…

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…