The Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister has disbanded Africa’s largest political party in an effort to reinvent the country’s politics—but some powerful players stand to lose, and they won’t go quietly. BY TOM GARDNER The Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) was once Africa’s largest, and arguably most powerful, political party. It was also, thanks to...
November 14, 2026
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World’s richest 2,000 people hold more than poorest 4.6 billion combined: Oxfam
George Obulursa NAIROBI (Reuters) – The world’s richest 2,153 people controlled more money than the poorest 4.6 billion combined in 2019, while unpaid or underpaid work by women and girls adds three times more to the global economy each year than the technology industry, Oxfam said on Monday. The Nairobi-headquartered charity said in a report...
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Four years later, government remains tight-lipped on El Adde attack
By Patrick Vidija Today marks exactly four years since Al Shabaab militants staged the most brutal and brazen attack yet on Kenyan troops when they staged an assault at the KDF base in El Adde, in the Gedo region near the Kenyan border. It remains possibly, the deadliest blitz on the Africa Mission in Somalia...
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Puntland Government Policy Paper on Constitutional Review Process of the Federal Republic of Somalia
Constitutional Review Process: Best Practices Around the world, there is not a perfect “single model” to implement a Constitutional Review Process, nor is there a definitive data supporting a single model for a post-conflict fragile setting, such as Somalia. However, constitutional experts are in general agreement that there must be a determined commitment to put...
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TIKA empowers Somaliland with agricultural development project
Turkey’s development aid agency TIKA launched a project to boost agriculture in Somaliland, covering the training of farmers, delivery of seeds and the modernization of agricultural equipment urkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has reached out to farmers in Somaliland with an agricultural development project. The recently-launched project aims to boost the quality and amount...
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ETHIOPIA: OFC, OLF AND ONP AGREE TO FORM “COALITION FOR DEMOCRATIC FEDERALISM”
Etenesh Abera Addis Abeba, Three national political parties competing in Ethiopia’s upcoming general elections in 2020 have agreed to form a regional coalition called “Coalition for Democratic Federalism.” On January 03, leaders of the three parties: Prof. Merera Gudina of Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), Dawud Ibssa of Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), and Brig. Gen. Kemal...
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‘If I don’t pay, they kill me’: Al-Shabab tightens grip on Somalia with growing tax racket
By Omar Faruk and Max Bearak MOGADISHU, Somalia — The calls from an unknown number had been coming for weeks, but Osman, a household-goods trader in the Somali capital’s largest market, disregarded them — until he got the text message. “Will you pick up our call? Yes or no. This is the mujahideen,” it said. The mujahideen, the Islamist...
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Prominent Ethiopian Oromo activist joins opposition party
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – A prominent activist for Ethiopia’s Oromo ethnic group has announced that he’s joined an opposition party. Jawar Mohammed’s membership in the Oromo Federalist Congress party comes five months before general elections that will test the popularity of reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in the east African nation of more than...
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‘The Somali government’s attention is not focused on defeating al Shabaab’
The huge resources deployed to prop up Somalia’s central government are not being used where they are most needed in the fight against al Shabaab, says Horn of Africa expert Matthew Bryden, a day after Somalia’s deadliest attack in two years. A massive car bomb exploded in a busy area of Mogadishu on Saturday, leaving at least...
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From newlywed to widow on a deadly morning in Mogadishu
Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Her ears still ringing from the deafening sound of an explosion near her home in the Somali capital on Saturday morning, 18-year-old Qali Ibrahim frantically dialed her husband’s mobile phone. Minutes earlier he had left home, hammer and saw in hand, headed out for a day of construction work. “The...