Fred Ojambo Uganda President Yoweri Museveni offered to become facilitator in the reunification of Somalia with the breakaway Republic of Somaliland after more than three decades of separation. A reunion would enhance economic growth and boost the welfare of citizens, Museveni said in an email statement from his office after a meeting with Somaliland Special...
By James Landale The head of Sudan’s army has told the BBC he is willing to talk to the commander of rebel forces whom he is battling for control of the country. Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said he was ready in principle to sit down with Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, leader of the Rapid Support Forces...
Asha Ibrahim Aden and Mohamed Olad Hassan NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON — Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre said Thursday that his government is appealing for more international support in its long-running war against al-Shahab militants. In an exclusive interview with VOA, Barre says he will appeal to the U.N. General Assembly this weekend about removing...
By FRED OLUOCH Ethiopian National Defence Forces (ENDF) are facing new allegations of atrocities in Amhara region, just a month after authorities in Addis Ababa imposed a state of emergency in the area to deal with a local rebellion. And the Amhara Association of America (AAA), a grouping of ethnic Amhara professionals based in the...
Harun Maruf and Falastine Iman The U.S. military acknowledged providing assistance to a Somali government operation against al-Shabab leaders last week in which five civilians died. A spokesperson for the U.S. military’s Africa Command, known as AFRICOM, said the U.S. forces didn’t accompany Somali forces during the operation but assisted them remotely. The U.S. “did...
Addis Ababa, (ENA) The contractual agreements which Ethiopia enters with neighboring countries for alternative ports will allow economic integration between African countries, President of the Ethiopian Institute for Public Diplomacy in Sweden, Yasin Ahmed said. In an exclusive interview with the Ethiopian News Agency, Yasin explained that Ethiopia is not the only landlocked country in...
By David Herbling A government drive to boost Ethiopian wheat production is expected to result in a 27% increase in output this season, enabling the Horn of Africa nation to export the grain. Economic reforms by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government include a planting campaign to wean the country off imports. The efforts have borne fruit and...
AMIZMIZ, Morocco (AP) — An aftershock rattled Moroccans on Sunday as they mourned victims of the nation’s strongest earthquake in more than a century and sought to rescue survivors while soldiers and aid workers raced to reach ruined mountain villages. The disaster killed more than 2,100 people — a number that is expected to rise. The United...
By Adan Makina I’m writing this article in praise of a Kenyan lawyer of Somali descent–a man I’ve never met face-to-face before though we communicated electronically in the past. Hardly in Kenya’s history of constitutional and Islamic religious law has a man of his caliber popped up in the law society of Kenya. Though it...
NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Ethiopian soldiers killed about two dozen civilians earlier this week in the Amhara region during house-to-house searches after being attacked by militiamen who have been battling federal forces for more than a month, six local residents said. Spokespeople for the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF), the federal government and Prime Minister Abiy...