Samuel Gebre, Bloomberg News Ethiopian Airlines Group wants to almost double its fleet over the next 12 years and expand its global network as Africa’s largest carrier seeks to better compete with Gulf rivals linking passengers between Asia, the Americas and Europe. The state-owned carrier — Africa’s largest airline — is looking to increase its number...
By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU, (Reuters) – More than 200,000 Somalis are suffering catastrophic food shortages and many are dying of hunger, with that number set to rise to over 700,000 next year, according to an analysis by an alliance of U.N. agencies and aid groups. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which sets the global...
by CYRUS OMBATI Police in Wajir and Garissa are holding six people suspected to be members of al Shabaab. The development came as Kenya heightened operations at the main border following an onslaught in Somalia on the militants. Police said the six were apprehended separately while attempting to flee into Kenya after encountering a hostile environment...
Simon Marks (Bloomberg) — Vast tracts of countryside transformed into barren wasteland, decimated crops and animal herds and children dying of starvation. The grim reality confronting drought-stricken east Africa is a frightening portent of what could come elsewhere as the effects of climate change become increasingly pronounced. Across the world’s poorest continent, more than...
The deadliest killings occurred at the Mirab Abaya prison camp, where current and retired Tigrayan soldiers were detained By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI — The scent of coffee and cigarettes hung in the hot afternoon air in a makeshift Ethiopian prison camp, prisoners said, as detained Tigrayan soldiers celebrated the holy day of Saint Michael in November...
Restrictions on weapons sales to Somalia are undermining efforts to thwart al-Shabaab insurgents that are trying to overthrow the government, a cabinet minister has warned. A military offensive has freed a large swathe of territory from the al-Qaeda-linked group’s control over recent months, but more weapons and support are needed to sustain troop deployments to...
Addis Abeba: In their first interview to local media which was aired on regional DW TV, Lieutenant General Tsadkan Gebretensae, and Getachew Reda, the Tigrayan officials who led the team from region during the peace talks with the federal government held in Pretoria and Nairobi, said that the peace agreement was mainly aimed at rescuing the people of Tigray from atrocities, hunger,...
Addis Abeba – Siraj Adem, former Somali region senior health bureau official, has been detained on Thursday 17 November in Dire Dawa and taken to regional capital Jigjiga where he is currently jailed, according to information received by Addis Standard. The information was corroborated by Siraj Abdikadir, a lecturer at Jigjiga University, who said that Siraj Adem,...
Mohamud Mascadde & Harun Maruf MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA — At least seven Somali-American women won races in Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections, results show. Ilhan Omar, the most prominent Somali American politician, won re-election for her U.S. House of Representatives seat in Minnesota’s 5th district. This will be the third term for Omar, who was first elected in...
by Jorgelina do Rosario and Rachel Savage WASHINGTON/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The delay in restructuring Ethiopia’s debt due to the failures of a new global mechanism to solve debt problems is “disappointing”, the East African country’s state finance minister said on Saturday, adding that he plans to extend it. Planned. The head of the IMF later...