Conflicts in the Horn of Africa have been greatly influenced by Gulf states, such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. Their involvement has increased since the 2010s, with priorities frequently centred on regional dominance, strategic ports, and Red Sea security—sometimes at the price of local stability. Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Sudan […]
The current Sudanese civil war is being analysed as not just a battle for control between two factions but also as a proxy fight for control over Sudan’s future by other regional powers. There are growing fears of increased Iranian influence in Sudan, which could also have an ideological impact on the Muslim Brotherhood and […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday that the death toll from the Marburg virus epidemic in Equatorial Guinea has climbed to 20. Malabo has reported six more deaths in the past ten days. This hemorrhagic fever, which is almost as deadly as Ebola, has spread from the province of Kie-Ntem, where it caused […]
Madeleine McCann, a 3-year-old girl, from Rothley, Leicestershire, went missing on May 3, 2007, on Portugal’s Algarve coast. Her photos were plastered across all lamp posts, airports, shopping centres and gyms in order to find her. What happened to Madeleine McCann? Where is she? Is she alive? Timeline: The day the McCanns went missing On […]
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni got a call from the United Nations and Amnesty International on Wednesday. They asked him to overturn a law against homosexuality that was passed by parliament the night before. They described the law as “appalling.” During a tumultuous session that took place on Tuesday night, the Ugandan parliament voted in favor […]
On Tuesday, the Ugandan parliament voted unanimously to pass sweeping anti-gay laws that could make it harder to be with someone of the same gender. The vote came after a very heated and chaotic session. After the final vote, the Speaker of the Parliament, Annet Anita Among, announced that “the ayes have it,” and she […]
U.S. Diplomatic Chief Antony Blinken said on Monday that the U.S. has decided that Ethiopian and Eritrean military forces, as well as Tigrayan rebels, committed war crimes during the two-year bloody conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. A few days after returning from his trip to the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, the United States Secretary […]
Cyclone Freddy was the tropical storm that lasted the longest on record. It killed hundreds of people and destroyed almost half of Malawi, according to President Lazarus Chakwera of Malawi. In an exclusive interview, he asked for help from the rest of the world and said that there was a lot of damage to buildings. […]
Antony Blinken, the U.S. Secretary of State, made the announcement on Thursday while he was in Niger. He was there to strengthen ties with a country that has so far avoided the military coups and Russian mercenaries that have been shaking up its neighbors. So far, Niger has been spared from the military coups and […]
Because the Russian Wagner mercenary group is becoming more powerful in the Sahel region of Africa, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that the US and its Western allies must show that they “can get things done” in the area. Blinken, who was on a historic trip to Niger at the time, said […]
During a trip that showed the longtime allies were getting along better after a fight, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was cautiously optimistic about keeping the peace. On Wednesday, he asked Ethiopia to make sure that people were held responsible for the brutal Tigray conflict, but he was cautiously optimistic about keeping the peace. […]
After wreaking havoc across southern Africa for the second time in a month, the catastrophic tropical cyclone Freddy is now certified to have claimed the lives of nearly 200 people in the country of Malawi. As the rain keeps coming down and rescue workers struggle to find both the dead and the living in the […]
Tropical Storm Freddy tore through southern Africa for the second time in one week over the weekend, killing more than one hundred people, injuring scores more, and leaving a path of devastation in its wake. On Monday, Mozambique and Malawi were assessing the damage caused by Freddy, which had ripped through the region over the […]
As violent extremism in West Africa’s Sahel region spreads southward toward coastal states, the United States military has initiated its annual military training exercise with the objective of assisting other armies in containing the jihadi threat. This week marked the beginning of the yearly U.S.-led exercise known as Flintlock, which provides training in counter-insurgency tactics […]
According to sources, fighting broke out on Friday between M23 militiamen and government forces close to the city of Goma in the eastern DR Congo, where a European mercy flight arrived in the afternoon. The mission is the first part of an airlift that the European Union said would help the city last Saturday. On […]
Even though human rights groups were against it, Ugandan lawmakers brought a bill to parliament on Thursday that would make the punishments for same-sex relationships even harsher in a country where homosexuality is already illegal. The bill has been sent to a house committee for review by the Speaker of the House, Annet Anita Among. […]
On Tuesday, the UN and the Ethiopian refugee agencies said that about 100,000 people had fled fighting in Somaliland, the self-declared independent region of Somalia, and taken refuge in a remote area of Ethiopia where there was already a severe drought. This has occurred in the span of one month. The UN High Commissioner for […]
Local sources say that fighting was still going on in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Tuesday, even though the M23 rebellion had agreed to a new ceasefire that was announced in Luanda on March 3. Hospital and humanitarian organization sources say that fighting between the army and the […]
The United States of America is the only country in the Sahel region that has not been the target of any assaults since 2011. Four jihadists broke out of a Nouakchott prison on Sunday night and killed two police officers before being caught. According to a statement released by the Ministry of the Interior on […]
