Ethiopia’s Tigray rebels now accept peace talks
Ethiopia’s Tigray rebels say they are ready to take part in peace talks led by the African Union (AU), removing an obstacle to potential negotiations with the government to end…
Ex-UN Peacekeepers from Tigray Battle for Control of Key Border Town
Kalkidan Yibeltal BBC News The UN has said it doesn’t know the whereabouts of hundreds of former Ethiopian peacekeepers. They had sought asylum in neighboring Sudan after refusing to return…
The Horn of Africa is on track for a fifth-consecutive failed rainy season
Hundreds of children have already died in nutrition centers across Somalia, the United Nations Children’s Agency (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, a day after it warned that parts of Somalia, Ethiopia,…
Ethiopia linking Somaliland cross-border to Berbera nears completion
The cross-border road connecting Somaliland and Ethiopia is nearing completion. The Berbera-corridor road project that connects Somaliland’s port city of Berbera with Ethiopia’s border town of Togochale has reached 85…
Ethiopia Breaking News: Secret negotiations between PM Abiy Ahmed’s gov’t and TPLF to take place in Tanzania
PM Abiy (left) and Debretion Gebremichal, TPLF chairman (right). Weeks after unconfirmed news regarding secret negotiation between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in…
Curfew imposed on Somalia presidential polls venue
The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (Atmis) has imposed a curfew on the Afisyoni air force hangar in the capital, Mogadishu, and the surrounding areas ahead of the presidential…
Somalia drought: ‘Act now or 350,000 children will die’
Nimco Abdi’s daughter is suffering from malnutrition As Somalia faces what experts call its worst drought in a decade, children are bearing the brunt. Parents are struggling to feed them,…
Terrible atrocities: Amnesty accuses Tigrayan forces of gang-raping dozens of young girls in the Amhara region.
Tigrayan fighters killed civilians and gang-raped dozens of women and underage girls in two towns in Ethiopia’s Amhara region last year, Amnesty International has said. The latest evidence of the…
Ethiopia announces pardons for high-profile political prisoners
The government says opposition politician Jawar Mohammed is one of the high-profile detainees being pardoned and released. [File: Mulugeta Ayene/AP Photo] Gov’t says it will release several leading TPLF members…
Taiwan Expo in Somaliland, East Africa’s business matchmaking program
Taiwan News) — Taipei, Taiwan Taipei, Taiwan Organized jointly by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), and the Importers and Exporters Association of…
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Taiwan and Somaliland two small countries with big neighbors | Are we to see the “Economic Miracle” model in Somaliland
Ambassador Allen Chenhwa Lou, Taiwan Representative in the Republic of Somaliland, and Mohamed Haji Osman, Minister of Agricultural Development of the Republic of Somaliland, co-host the opening ceremony of the…
Somaliland Foreign Ministry rejects Somalia’s sham election
The Republic of Somaliland Foreign Affairs Ministry on Wednesday said that elections organized by Somalia’s Federal Gov’t have nothing to do with Somaliland and asserted to the Int’l community that…
Somalia sets up national payments system as it rebuilds country
Somalia has been through decades of political and economic turmoil [File: AFP/Getty Images] Somalia is struggling to rebuild after 20 years of civil war and is still battling an insurgency…
Abiy can reset Ethiopia with new Hope
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is seen at a campaign rally in Jimma, Ethiopia, on June 16, 2021 [File: Tiksa Negeri/Reuters] Abiy’s government will have to tackle multiple challenges in…
