Ethiopian migrants who crossed the sea in pursuit of a better life have one goal in mind as they hide in the Saudi mountains: avoid border guards, and their deadly shots. Only when night falls on this part of southern Saudi Arabia do the undocumented migrants dare venture into nearby villages to scavenge for food,...
Addis Abeba – The Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO) revealed this week that its efforts to investigate alleged human rights violations in Ethiopia have been severely impeded by obstruction from governmental authorities. In a statement released yesterday, the Council outlined the systematic and growing barriers it has faced in trying to investigate reported rights violations through on-site...
(Bloomberg) — The head of Kenya’s largest bank by market value said the depreciation of the East African country’s currency, which has weakened almost 20% against the dollar this year, has peaked. “We seem to have reached the peak,” Equity Group Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer James Mwangi said in an interview with Bloomberg TV....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Countries once colonized by empires are striking back on global warming — and they have the pope’s blessing. Leaders of developing nations jumped into Saturday’s high-level speeches at the U.N. climate summit to press rich industrial countries to share their knowhow to fight global warming and ease the financial burdens they...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Israeli hostage freed by Hamas said in an interview that she was initially fed well in captivity until conditions worsened and people became hungry. She was kept in a “suffocating” room and slept on plastic chairs with a sheet for nearly 50 days. In one of the first interviews...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar got a prominent Democratic primary challenger Sunday when former Minneapolis City Council member Don Samuels announced he’ll try once again to unseat her after coming close in 2022. Omar, a charter member of “the squad” of progressive House Democrats, won reelection twice despite making comments in her first term that were widely...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday gave a condition for a longer ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. “There will be no ceasefire, general ceasefire, in Gaza without the release of our hostages,” Netanyahu told the U.S. broadcaster ABC. “As far as tactical little pauses, an hour here, an hour there. “We have had them...
Paul Adams A junior minister in the Israeli government has been suspended from all government meetings until further notice after he suggested that dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza was “one of the possibilities”. Amihai Eliyahu, who is the country’s heritage minister, made the comment in an interview with an ultra-orthodox radio station, Kol Beramah....
Addis Ababa (AFP) – One year after Ethiopia signed a peace deal with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, ending a brutal conflict that killed hundreds of thousands by some estimates, life in the northern region is slowly limping back to normal. But the legacy of the two-year war is everywhere in Tigray, even though fighting has...
Nairobi, Kenya — King Charles III is in Kenya for his first state visit to a Commonwealth country as monarch. He will acknowledge the “painful aspects” of the countries’ shared history while underscoring his commitment to an organization that’s been central to Britain’s global power since World War II. The four-day visit is full of symbolism. Charles’ mother,...