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Across northern Kenya, thousands of families are living far from home, short of food and shelter. The Ethiopia border clashes around Moyale have pushed tens of thousands of people over the line, and aid is struggling to keep up. A fight over land and water According to Al Jazeera, the fighting in Ethiopia’s Moyale border […]
Two 15-year-old girls were killed in northern Ukraine overnight. A Russian strike in Chernihiv also injured 25 people, local officials say, leaving residents to wake up to smoke, broken glass and grief. A cheap missile, a heavy toll The local military administration says the attack involved a Banderol cruise missile. It is a relatively inexpensive, […]
For months, Joseph Kabila denied taking sides in eastern Congo’s war. The Joseph Kabila new group, launched on Monday, now puts him at the head of a political-military force that aims to replace the AFC-M23 alliance. What was announced The platform is called the Front pour la Refondation de la Nation (FRN). A group adviser, […]
Morocco has a new political map, and a woman is drawing it. The Morocco coalition government announced on Monday brings together four parties under the centrist Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), which topped the 23 September vote. King Mohammed VI has already named PAM leader Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri as the country’s first woman to […]
International pressure is mounting on Sudan over allegations of chlorine-based chemical weapons use, as five countries call for transparent investigations at the OPCW. Sudan is facing renewed international scrutiny over allegations that its armed forces used chlorine-based chemical weapons during the country’s ongoing conflict with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The United States, Germany, Australia, […]
People who had already run from one war found no safety in the next place they stopped. The headline is stark: Sudan paramilitary drone strike kills 41 displaced people in Blue Nile province, close to the Ethiopian border. The rights group Emergency Lawyers, which tracks the war, blamed the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for Friday’s […]
Eritrea has asked the world’s top diplomatic body to step in as tensions with Ethiopia edge toward open war. The call for Eritrea UN intervention in Ethiopia standoff came on Saturday, when Foreign Minister Osman Saleh wrote to the Security Council and urged it to take measures to deter Addis Ababa after what he called […]
Mekelle has fallen again, but peace has not followed. The Ethiopia Tigray war escalation is now pulling the whole Horn of Africa into a dangerous guessing game about who will act next. A capital retaken, a war unfinished After nearly two weeks of heavy fighting, Ethiopian federal forces entered the Tigrayan capital as rebel groups, […]
Two presidents sat down in Pretoria this week with one question on the table: can the world’s youngest nation finally go to the polls? The talks centred on South Sudan elections, which are due in December, and on the fragile peace deal that has to hold until then. What the Two Leaders Discussed President Salva […]
Libya’s politics rarely stay quiet for long, and this week proved it again. Libya eastern lawmakers elect Abdulnabi new parliament speaker, ending Aguila Saleh’s run at the top after nearly 12 years. The vote took place in Benghazi on Tuesday, in a session chaired by second deputy speaker Misbah Douma. A Chair That Never Changed […]
When Europe’s currency wobbles, Africa feels it too. The euro near 17-month low amid political and fiscal concerns is the story moving currency desks this week. For anyone who exports to Europe, repays foreign debt or lives in a franc zone, it matters. What Is Happening The euro slipped to about $1.1220 in early Asian […]
Kenya’s streets roared in June 2024, and the young people who filled them are now queueing at registration centres. Here is how Gen Z could influence Kenya’s next election, and why politicians in Nairobi are suddenly paying close attention to TikTok and X. The vote is less than a year away, yet the race is […]
African leaders have a blunt message for the continent this week: stop waiting for outside cash. The inaugural Alamein Africa Forum, held over three days in the Mediterranean city of El-Alamein, put one theme above all others: unlock Africa’s domestic capital Egypt business summit 2026. More than 20 heads of state and government representatives showed […]
Peace on paper has rarely meant peace on the ground in the Horn of Africa, and this October the gap is hard to ignore. Headlines on Horn of Africa peace deals collapse Ethiopia Eritrea conflict fears keep piling up, and ordinary families carry the cost. A new Global Peace Index now labels the region a […]
The African Union has asked Ethiopia, Eritrea and Egypt to step back before a bad situation grows into a regional one. Ethiopia Eritrea Egypt tensions escalated sharply this week, and the AU Commission said late Thursday that all three should avoid actions or statements that could make matters worse. It wants differences settled through established […]
Talks between London and Port Louis have started again, but the people at the centre of the dispute are running out of time. The Chagos Islands treaty delay has left elderly Chagossians wondering whether they will ever see the archipelago their families were forced to leave in the late 1960s and 1970s. Britain removed up […]
Umaro Sissoco Embalo, the president removed by soldiers last year, is getting ready to come home. Embalo to run in Guinea-Bissau December 2026 election, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, and he intends to be back in the country on October 4. The vote would put him on a ballot for the first […]
Morocco has its first woman prime minister. King Mohammed VI on Tuesday appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri to lead the government, six days after her Authenticity and Modernity Party, known as PAM, finished first in the September 23 parliamentary election, the royal palace said. The 50-year-old lawyer now has to turn an election win into […]
President Salva Kiir has dissolved South Sudan’s transitional government, three months before the country’s first election since independence in 2011. The decree was announced on state television and clears the way for the vote on 22 December. What the decree changes As, South Sudan transitional government dissolved what happens next, everyone is looking forward to […]
