By Amir Aman Kiyaro, Associated Press Wanted by the Ethiopian government, rebel military leader Jaal Marroo moves constantly to stay ahead of drones hunting him from the skies. The rebel commander leads the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) from a series of remote forest outpost in Oromia, the country’s biggest region with a population of roughly 40...
By Abukar Arman Ever since Israel illegally became the first UN member state to recognize the breakaway Somali region—Somaliland—as an “independent and sovereign state,” the security threat level in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East has shot to the danger zone. Legally, Somaliland is still part and parcel of Somalia- a member state...
Ergo- In Gabobe village, on the outskirts of Hargeisa, 40 vulnerable families have been abandoned after other residents migrated away in search of water and pasture following two years of drought. Those left behind are elderly people, disabled, and households without the means to relocate. With their livestock wiped out by drought, they are struggling...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Human-caused climate change worsened recent torrential rains and floods that devastated parts of southern Africa, killing more than 100 people and displacing hundreds of thousands, researchers said Thursday. A study by the World Weather Attribution, which analyzed the recent heavy rainfalls that caused severe flooding in parts of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, showed that the...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States on Wednesday said it would lift a suspension of aid to Somalia after claiming authorities in the East African nation had taken responsibility for actions earlier this month that disrupted aid operations. Despite the U.S. statement that Somalia had acknowledged accountability for the disruption of World Food Program aid at...
By Ali H. Warsame Anyone who closely followed the recent development of Israel’s unilateral recognition of “Somaliland” on 26 December 2025, and the response from the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS), supported by most international organizations, have raised serious concerns about the approach taken by the current government of Somaliland and its implications for Africa...
KIGALI, (Reuters) – Rwanda has filed an arbitration case against Britain over the cancellation of an asylum deal by Prime Minister Keir Starmer in 2024, the government of the East African nation said. Under the scheme, signed before Starmer took office, Britain agreed to pay Rwanda to take in migrants who had arrived illegally in Britain. It...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man sprayed an unknown substance on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and was tackled to the ground Tuesday during a town hall Minneapolis, where tensions over federal immigration enforcement have come to a head after agents fatally shot an intensive care nurse and a mother of three this month. The audience cheered as the man was pinned down and...
MOGADISHU– Somalia has announced that all World Food Programme (WFP) aid commodities affected by port expansion in Mogadishu have been returned. The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the government takes full “responsibility for addressing this unfortunate situation and expresses its regret that it occurred.” It said that to ensure the continued, secure, and...
By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) – The incidents that occurred during the African Cup of Nations final between Morocco and Senegal were “deplorable” and “painful”, Senegal’s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko said on Monday. His comments came ahead of possible sanctions by the Confederation of African Football against his national team after Senegal’s players walked off the pitch in...