Somali money transfer companies moved more than $3.7 million in cash between suspected weapons traffickers in recent years, including to a Yemeni under U.S. sanctions for alleged militant links, according…
Ethiopians have a three-month window within which they will be able to exchange old currency notes for new ones from the banks after the government demonetized its currency. Ethiopia on…
Break of a new dawn for Somalia, young Somalis work to reconstruct their country Somalia has been in the grip of civil war for almost 30 years now. Years of…
The governing party in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region has won all contested seats in elections that have further affected an already hostile relationship with the federal government. “The total seats…
Somalia’s education policymakers are under pressure to explain how secondary schools in the capital Mogadishu reported massive failure in the national examination, while those in regions bordering Kenya had high grades. Results…
Against the backdrop of an explosion of demand for hydrocarbons, the Swiss trader Trafigura signed a contract with Somaliland to both supply and invest in its port infrastructure. The race…
The amplification of false and dangerous narratives contributed to July’s deadly violence against civilians in Oromia. The night the popular Oromo singer Hachalu Hundessa was murdered, a dreadful sense of…
Earlier this year, Tigray region had been urging the federal government to stick to the original schedule and carry out national elections for several months. The subsequent June decision of…
Pomp and colour marked the official opening of the Somaliland embassy offices in Taipei, Taiwan on Wednesday morning. Taiwan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu and Somaliland’s Representative to Taiwan…
Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region held regional elections on Wednesday, defying the federal government and increasing political tensions in Africa’s second-most populous country. Tigray officials, holding polls for the 190-seat regional…
In Somalia’s political scene, the revolving door is brutal and not even presidents can be safe. Every sort of election held in and out of Somalia since the fall of…
It may have built up formidable military might and wield enormous diplomatic and economic clout, but China has been forced onto the defensive by a blossoming alliance of two small democracies who…
By Desta GebremedhinBBC Tigrinya The feud between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the ruling party in the strategically important Tigray region is escalating, raising fears of military confrontation and…
BY AHMED YUSUF Addis Abeba, September 03/2020 – A new survey released on August 25 by Afrobarometer, a pan-African research network, revealed that Ethiopians (61%) embrace a federal system as opposed…
‘The guards just throw the bodies out back as if it was trash,’