Ethiopian soldiers ride on a truck near the town of Adigrat, Tigray region, Ethiopia, March 18, 2021. REUTERS/Baz Ratner By Giulia Paravicini, Katharine Houreld Eritrean and Ethiopian soldiers forcibly detained more than 500 young men and women from four camps for displaced people in the town of Shire in the northern region of Tigray on

The last victim killing spree in Kenya Mohamed Bashir Mohamoud. More than 20 people have disappeared since January and their bodies dumped in mortuaries, roadside thickets and on river banks. Data maintained by police watchdog lobby, the Independent Medico-Legal Unit, shows the disappeared people were tortured before being killed. The cases bear similarities, including claims

Photo/Somali Times The United Nations Security Council convened today for a special session on the situation in Somalia, and was addressed by members of the Somali Foreign Ministry Mohamed Abdirizak and United Nations Special Representative to Somalia James Swan. First, Somali Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdirizak said in his speech to the Security Council that an

By MARCO GIANNANGELI BRITAIN is to send 250 troops to Somalia as the country battles against Al Shabab terrorists. The move, to take place “within the next 12 months:”, will represent the first official engagement of the new Army Ranger regiment. It comes just months after the creation of the Special Operation Brigade was announced

File – In this Thursday Sept. 21, 2006, file photo, Mali’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Moctar Ouane addresses the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters. Mutinous soldiers arrested Mali’s transitional President Bah N’Daw and Prime Minister Ouane, Monday, May 24, 2021, hours after a government

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks at a news conference at his office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia August 1, 2019. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo Ethiopia accused the United States on Monday of meddling in its affairs after Washington announced restrictions on economic and security assistance over alleged human rights abuses during the conflict in the northern

British national Kenneth Daniel Kutsch, right, and Italian national Francesco D’alesio, walk as they are shown to the media during a police press conference in Badung, Bali, Indonesia, Monday, May 24, 2021. The British hotel owner and the Italian tourist were arrested for alleged possession of narcotics on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, police announced

A Ryanair aircraft, which was carrying Belarusian opposition blogger and activist Roman Protasevich and diverted to Belarus, where authorities detained him, lands at Vilnius Airport in Vilnius, Lithuania May 23, 2021. REUTERS/Andrius Sytas By Reuters Western politicians accused Belarus on Monday of state piracy amounting to a “warlike act”, searching for a way to retaliate

Margaret Gecaga. By SAM KIPLAGAT President Uhuru Kenyatta’s brother-in-law Udi Gecaga is locked in a new court battle over the ownership of eight properties in Nairobi’s Muthaiga with his stepmother, who faced eviction from one of the homes. The Court of Appeal has allowed Margaret Gacigi Gecaga to challenge the arbitration ruling that gave Udi

File Photo of Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed(L) and Isaias Afewerki ( Minasse Wondimu Hailu – Anadolu Agency ) The United States has begun restricting visas for people undermining efforts to resolve the deadly fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, saying it is time for the international community to take action in a conflict that has sparked