NAIROBI, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Shares of Kenyan telecoms operator Safaricom (SCOM.NR) surged more than 9% on Friday after it secured a mobile financial services licence in Ethiopia, market participants said. Ethiopia’s Finance Minister Ahmed Shide said on Thursday his country had given Safaricom the licence in one of Africa’s largest telecoms markets as the company formally...
NAIROBI, Kenya – Regional security was the main point of focus as Kenya’s president met the top American diplomat for the Horn of Africa on Friday. Talks between President William Ruto and Mike Hammer, the US special envoy for the Horn of Africa, in the capital Nairobi were held in the backdrop of the Tigray...
NAIROBI (Reuters) – African Union-led peace talks proposed for this weekend to try to end a two-year-old conflict in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region have been delayed for logistical reasons, Tigray forces and two diplomatic sources said on Friday. Ethiopia’s government and Tigray forces said on Wednesday that they accepted the AU’s invitation to talks in South Africa,...
Canab Xuseen Maxamed oo ah 54 jir ayaa carruurteeda oo lix ah u la’ cunno iyo hoy ku filan. Qoyskeeda ayaa bishii Agoosto ee sanadkan ka soo barakacay miyiga degaanka Aato ee gobolka Bakool markii ay isku biirsadeen colaad, abaar iyo sicir barar. Raashin hal wakhti ah oo ay waydiisato qoysaska kula nool xerada Qurdubey...
by FELIX KIPKEMOI Former President Uhuru Kenyatta is among the top African Union peace mediators set to steer talks between Ethiopia’s government and rival Tigray forces in South Africa at the weekend. In what will mark his first assignment since handing over power, Uhuru alongside former Nigerian president Olesegun Obasanjo and former South African deputy president...
eklemariam Bekit Ethiopia has extradited an Eritrean human smuggler to the Netherlands to face charges of running a large-scale human trafficking ring. Tewelde Goitom, known as Welid, was arrested in Ethiopia two years ago and sentenced to 18 years for human trafficking by an Addis Ababa court. The fresh charges against him are linked to...
Muqdisho (WDN)- Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya Md. Xasan Sheekh Maxamuud oo uu wehliyo Ra’iisal Wasaaraha Xukuumadiisa Md. Xamse Cabdi Barre shir gudoomiyey kulanka todobaadlaha ah ee golaha wasiirada, kaasi oo maanta si gaar ah diirada loogu saarey dagaalka lagula jiro maleeshiyaadka Alshabaab iyo sidii gargaarka loo gaarsiin lahaa dadka abaaruhu hayaan ee ku sugan deegaanada...
Press Release US Embassy, Mogadisu Somalia United States Ambassador to Somalia Larry André joined Minister of Internal Security Mohamed Ahmed Sheikh Ali and Somali Police Commissioner Major General Abdi Hassan Mohamed Hijaar on Wednesday, October 5, to open the newly constructed Maritime Training Center in Mogadishu. “Somalia has the longest coastline in continental Africa and...
Sahra Mohamud Dool, 55, estimates that she must have cut more than 10,000 Somali girls during her 15 years working as a circumciser in southern Somalia’s Kismayo. The last time she used her razor blade to perform a female genital mutilation (FGM) was in January. But since then, she has acquired new skills and is...
By Farouk Chothia Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has asked Kenyans for “forgiveness” after his son – a senior military officer – tweeted about invading their country. His apology came a day after he sacked Muhoozi Kainerugaba as commander of the army’s land forces. But Mr Museveni softened the blow by promoting him to the rank...