The Council of Ministers has approved an 801.6 billion birr budget for the coming fiscal year – a meager two percent increase from the current year’s allotment. The budget rise is a far cry from last year’s 40 percent growth … Continued
ADDIS ABABA, (Xinhua) — The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations said Monday that ongoing drought in several parts of Ethiopia have killed around 6.8 million livestock. In its latest Ethiopia Humanitarian Response Plan report, FAO said … Continued
Harun Maruf Ugandan soldiers hid for six days before being rescued after al-Shabab militants overran their base, a spokesperson for the Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces (UPDF) told VOA Somali. Brigadier General Felix Kulaigye said the four soldiers, including a lieutenant, … Continued
Addis Abeba – The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has urged the need to immediately halt the ever-increasing enforced disappearance of people in Ethiopia and advised the government to immediately accept and ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons … Continued
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has urged Ethiopia to accept a “compromise” over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) crisis, Anadolu reported. This came during a joint press conference held with Mauritanian President, Mohamed Ould Cheikh Al-Ghazouani, in Cairo, according … Continued
by CYRUS OMBATI A member of the National Police Reserve was killed in an attack on a communication mast at a village town near the Kenya-Somalia border. The gang struck on June 3 morning at Ogaralle Town attacking the local Safaricom … Continued
By DOMINIC OMONDI Somalia is a few steps away from officially joining the East African Community (EAC), a move that has elicited mixed reactions as the country is still roiled by civil conflict. On Friday, Somalia issued a public statement … Continued
Kenan Malik Torture, rape and death are the results of a policy to keep desperate people away from Europe Please help, today one person self dead by petrol because hopeless.” Sally Hayden received the text in October 2018. The Irish … Continued
by MAUREEN KINYANJUI Defence Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has preached a message of peace and unity to Narok leaders. Speaking on Sunday, the CS urged Narok leaders to unite and put politics behind and deliver to the residents. “I want to … Continued
Dubai: Kuwaiti authorities have begun implementing a contingency plan to ensure an adequate supply of domestic workers following the recent tension with the Philippines and the subsequent closure of the Philippine embassy’s illegal shelter. Khaled Al Dakhnan, head of the … Continued
By ABDULKADIR KHALIF Somalia’s new radical proposals, meant to upend the country’s political system from parliamentary to presidential, is raising a storm, and exposing further cracks between Mogadishu and some political quarters. On May 28, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud led … Continued
Some 54 Ugandan peacekeepers died when militants besieged an African Union base in Somalia last week, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni said, in one of the worst recent attacks by Al-Shabaab jihadists in the war-torn country. “We discovered the lifeless bodies … Continued
