Nairobi ( Kenya) – A grenade attack has killed at least 15 people in north-east Kenya, close to the borders of Somalia and Ethiopia. More than 20 people were injured in the attack about 30km (18 miles) from the town of Banisa, in Mandera county. The violence reportedly broke out in a camp for displaced...
Juba, – South Sudanese soldiers have unlawfully detained and ill-treated more than 130 civilians since February 2013 in response to armed violence and inter-communal fighting in Lakes state, Human Rights Watch said today. Soldiers rounded up dozens of young men, often detaining others if they couldn’t find the suspects they were seeking, and held them...
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By MARK DUELL Almost 40 homes near a mosque were today being evacuated after a suspicious item was found. Police were called to Rutter Street in Walsall, West Midlands, at 10:45pm last night following the discovery in the building’s grounds. The item was then brought inside by a member of the public. Officers immediately went to...
NAIROBI (AFP) – At least 10 people were killed on Sunday in a grenade attack on a displaced people’s camp in the far northeastern tip of Kenya near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia, police said. “We have lost 10 people after a grenade attack. Those killed were in one of the IDP (internally displaced...
By RASHID ABDI Ongoing efforts to build a lasting peace in Somalia represent one of the greatest challenges facing the Horn of Africa with implications for all of Somalia’s neighbours and countries further afield. How has the government performed so far? Veteran Somalia watcher and former co-ordinator of the UN Monitoring Group for Eritrea and Somalia,...
Ethiopia’s dam is completely made of concrete, which decreases its safety factors and raises the potential for its collapse, a water resources expert has said. The Nile River is an international river and is registered at the World Bank, therefore Ethiopia has no right to build dams on the river with Egypt’s and Sudan’s consent,...
The administration has decided that one of the two Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels patrolling against pirates off Somalia will join a combined drill involving the United States and other countries, a government source said. The move is aimed at raising Japan’s profile on the international stage, the source said Friday, adding it will be the...
By BERTHA KANG’ONG’OI Special Correspondent In Ainabo, about 400km from the Somaliland capital Hargeisa, half of the population is comprised of internal refugees displaced by conflict and drought. Hassan Sa’ed, the mayor of Oog, a small town within Ainabo, says the resources in the area have been strained by the influx of the IDPs. “Our main...
NAIROBI (AFP) – Nine people were killed on Friday night in fresh inter-clan violence in northeastern Kenya’s border region with war-torn Somalia, police said on Saturday. “Nine people were killed, four in Mandera and five in Wajir,” a police officer who declined to be named told AFP. “The two incidents are related because the second...