In the remote village of Tum, located 4,650 feet above sea level and just 20 to 30 kilometers from Ethiopia’s border with South Sudan, Meskerem Tadesse’s life has been transformed. A mother of four, Meskerem once spent hours every day on tasks made harder by the lack of electricity. She gathered firewood daily to cook...
By Dylan GAMBA; AFP More than two years after a peace deal ended the devastating war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, a power struggle within the once-dominant TPLF party has sparked accusations of “treason” and a military coup. Could these rising tensions lead to renewed violence so soon after one of the century’s deadliest conflicts that...
By Louis Krauss The Minnesota Star Tribune A defendant in the Feeding Our Future scheme was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison on Friday for his role in defrauding the federal government of $47 million meant for feeding children in need during the pandemic. Mukhtar Mohamed Shariff’s 210-month prison term is the longest sentence of...
BOSASO, Somalia, (Reuters) – More than 100 dead dolphins have been found on the coast of Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region, with officials yet to establish what caused their deaths. The region’s fisheries minister, Abdirisak Abdulahi Hagaa, told Reuters that so far at least 110 dead dolphins had been counted, not far from the port of...
By Mohamed Olad Hassan, VOA WASHINGTON — A study finds that severe drought plaguing parts of Somalia since 2022 has killed at least 71,000 people beyond the number expected. About 40% of the lives lost were children under the age of 5, said the study, commissioned by the U.N. Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization and Somalia’s...
NAIROBI Kenya– African Union Chairperson Moussa Faki has urged the United States to reconsider its exit from the World Health Organisation (WHO) programs which he says will adversely affect Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) programs. In a statement, Faki said that over the past seven decades, the US as a member State...
Egypt and Somalia formally elevated their relationship to a strategic partnership on Thursday, solidifying cooperation across political, military, economic, and cultural spheres. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud signed a joint political declaration at the Al-Ittihadiya Palace in Cairo, marking a significant development in bilateral relations. The signing followed bilateral...
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. civil rights groups are warning that an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Monday lays the groundwork for reinstatement of a ban on travelers from predominantly Muslim or Arab countries. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) said the new order relied on the same statutory authority used to...
NAIROBI, Kenya – Nearly 200 passengers traveling from Nairobi to Mogadishu were stranded on Wednesday after Somali airlines operating between the two capital cities suspended flights due to a dispute over the Somalian government’s recently increased taxes. Many passengers’ travel plans were disrupted as a result of the cancellations, with some only learning of the...
Ethiopia’s public debt has reached a total of $68.86 billion by June 2024, according to the Ministry of Finance’s recently released Public Sector Debt Portfolio AnalysisNo. 25. This figure represents 32.9% of the nation’s GDP, marking a decline from 57.2% in 2019, signaling progress in managing debt levels. However, the report highlights ongoing challenges that demand...