Photo: Credit Reuters Jailed Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul There is mounting pressure on world leaders to boycott the upcoming G20 Summit, which is to be held later this month in Saudi Arabia, over the kingdom’s detention and alleged “torture” of women activists. The fate of female detainees has become a major source of

By Jack Erickson Ethiopian troops help fight Al-Shabaab in Somalia. What happens when they’re called back home? Observers could be forgiven for thinking these days that East Africa is on the verge of unraveling. An ongoing conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray province is affecting the entire region, with its consequences being felt most keenly in Somalia.

Photo: Credit Amisom. Ethiopia said on Wednesday peacekeepers from its Tigray region serving in Somalia had been disarmed over a security issue, raising concerns over the forces’ ability to fight al Qaeda-linked militants. Diplomatic and security sources said earlier that between 200 and 300 Tigrayans had had their weapons removed. Ethiopian troops began fighting forces

Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed said in a social media post on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020 that “the final and crucial” military operation will launch in the coming days against the government of the country’s rebellious northern Tigray region. (Ethiopian News Agency via AP) People are going hungry in Ethiopia’s rebellious northern Tigray region as

US President Donald Trump speaks during a Make America Great Again campaign rally at the Erie International Airport on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020 in Erie, PA [Noah Riffe/Anadolu Agency] President Donald Trump may withdraw nearly all U.S. troops from Somalia as part of a global pullback that includes reductions of forces in Afghanistan and Iraq,

Capital city of Tigray Region in Ethiopia. Mekele Ethiopian forces pushed towards the capital of the rebel Tigray region on Wednesday, ignoring international appeals for talks to end the conflict and denying it was targeting any ethnic group. Federal troops are locked in a two-week conflict against Tigray’s forces, which has killed hundreds on both

Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has been terminated effective immediately, president tweets US President Donald Trump fired the country’s top cybersecurity official on Tuesday over a statement he made about the Nov. 3 presidential election. In a tweet, Trump said that Chris Krebs, the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and

In this Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, file photo, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, center, arrives for the opening session of the 33rd African Union (AU) Summit at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ahmed left Ethiopians breathless when he became the prime minister in 2018, introducing a wave of political reforms in the long-repressive

FILE – In this Nov. 10, 2020 file photo British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File) By Nicholas Cecil Boris Johnson was today hit with a wave of protests over plans being discussed for Britain to cuts its spending on overseas aid as the world reels from

Capital city of Tigray Region in Ethiopia. Mekele Ethiopian troops are battling rebellious forces from the country’s northern Tigray region. Fallout from the conflict in Africa’s second most-populous nation is already spilling over into Ethiopia’s neighbours, threatening to further destabilise a fragile region. ERITREA – Three missiles fired by Tigrayan forces slammed into the Eritrean