TPLF Withdraws After 11 Days of Fighting as Ethiopia-Eritrea Relations Collapse and Regional Powers Move to Coordinate MEKELLE (WDN) — Ethiopia’s renewed Tigray war has moved with extraordinary speed from a major Tigrayan offensive to the fall of Mekelle, while a parallel diplomatic crisis between Ethiopia and Eritrea threatens to turn the conflict into a...
By Dr. Abdirazak Takar On 4 March 2026, Somalia adopted a new constitution in Mogadishu, ratified under President Hassan Sheikh Mohamed, replacing the Provisional Constitution that had governed the federal project since 2012. For outside observers, Somali’s federal experiment is easy to misrepresentation as either a fragile arrangement barely holding the country together or a...
WHO Says None of Gaza’s Hospitals Is Fully Functional as Critical Medical Supplies Wait Weeks for Israeli Clearance GENEVA (WDN) — Gaza’s humanitarian crisis is deepening as critical medical supplies face prolonged delays before entering the territory, with the World Health Organization warning that patients are paying the price for a system it describes as...
Latest Attack Raises Fresh Alarm for Global Energy Shipping as Vessel Is Struck Near One of the World’s Most Critical Oil Routes MUSCAT (WDN) — A crude oil tanker was struck by an unknown projectile off Oman on Friday, triggering another maritime security alert in waters surrounding the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz. The vessel’s...
Federal Forces Retake Mekelle Airport as TPLF Fighters and Leaders Reportedly Leave Tigray’s Capital MEKELLE (WDN) — Ethiopia’s renewed Tigray war has entered a dramatic new phase, with federal forces and their allies closing in on Mekelle after reportedly retaking the city’s main airport and Tigrayan fighters and political leaders beginning to abandon positions inside...
By Dr. Abdulkadir Osman Farah Gar Allay Taqaan Once, a powerful and calculating man stole property from a less powerful, unsuspecting owner. The dispossessed man appealed to elder mediators (oday dhaqameedyo), but the corrupt elders largely ignored his claim. He returned to the thief. Unexpectedly, the thief proposed taking the dispute to a renowned regional...
JOHANNEBURG (AP) — Two men sit on top of a hill at the end of a narrow road in Johannesburg ’s industrial suburb of Kya Sands. But the hill is no natural feature — it is a mountain of illegally dumped trash, piled so high it now swallows the road beyond. “When I started as...
JEDDAH —(WDN) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and several Arab countries on Thursday condemned a drone attack on a power station in Madinah that the Saudi-led coalition attributed to Houthi rebels fighting the internationally recognized government in neighboring Yemen. The statements from the organization, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain followed...
By Lucy Fleming, BBC Africa and Teklemariam Bekit, BBC Tigrinya Explosions were heard overnight in Ethiopia’s capital, some in the area of the military headquarters in the west and another in the south of the city, residents and diplomatic sources say. The blasts came hours after drone flights were banned over Addis Ababa and a...
(Reuters)- Ethiopia ordered the closure of its embassy in Eritrea and declared 10 Eritrean diplomats persona non grata on Thursday, prompting Asmara to sever all diplomatic ties with its neighbour after overnight blasts heard in Addis Ababa sparked fears about renewed conflict in northern Ethiopia spreading. Addis Ababa has accused Eritrea, Sudan and Egypt of...