Ethiopia’s parliament swore in Abiy Ahmed as prime minister on Monday with a mandate to implement democratic reforms aimed partly at defusing ethnic tensions in the Oromiya province from which the former army lieutenant general hails. The ruling coalition picked Abiy last week to replace Hailemariam Desalegn who quit to clear the way for reforms.

Over 1,100 people have been detained under Ethiopia’s February 16 State of Emergency, authorities in the country have disclosed. A total of 1,107 detainees are currently being held across six different zones classified under the marshal law. The inquiry board, led by MP Tadesse Hordofa, said over 1000 men and twenty women make up the

Nairobi – – Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Mr. Ahmed Issa Awad meets with Kenyan foreign minister Mrs . Monica Juma. meeting discussed bilateral relations and a number of issues in the region and the world, especially in conditions of the construction of the wall being built between Mandera and Beled Hawo and

The governor of Gedo region Mr. Mohamed Mahmoud Mohamed has talked about the situation in Somalia between the two countries in the conflict-ravaged country. The chairman said that a special meeting between the delegations of the two countries and discussed solutions achieve this and to implement the terms agreed upon by the President of Kenya,

Somalia has urged the United Nations Security Council to take action against the construction of a United Arab Emirates military base in Somaliland. Speaking at the Security Council on Tuesday, Mr Abukar Osman, Somalia’s ambassador to the UN, said the agreement between Somaliland and the UAE to establish the base in the port city of

About 120 Somali-owned small businesses have been torched in Zwelihle, Hermanus, in violence associated with community protests, a group of Somali shop owners said on Tuesday. “I ran with my children and my wife,” said one man who did not want to be named or photographed. “They burnt my shop, my house, and they turned

The son of Angola’s ex-president, José Filomeno dos Santos, has been charged with fraud relating to a $500 million transaction out of an account belonging to the central bank, the prosecutor general’s office said on Monday. Dos Santos is the highest profile figure to be charged since President Joao Lourenco succeeded former leader Jose Eduardo

Nairobi – Delegates from Somalia and Kenya are scheduled to start talks over border dispute on Tuesday in Nairobi.Kenya started constructing security wall along Somalia-Kenya border after Al-Shabaab militants waged deadly attacks inside Kenya. Speaking to the media, Gedo governor, Mohamed Mohamud Mohamed said Somalia and Kenya would engage in dialogue to resolve the border

Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Group Chairman and CEO, DP World and Jose Makila Sumanda, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Transport and Communications, Democratic Republic of the Congo, at the signing of the Port of Banana concession in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – DP World has won a 30-year

International rights group, Human Rights Watch says as a matter of urgency, the Kenyan government must speak on the political and security ongoings in neighbouring Ethiopia. According to HRW, Kenya especially and the entire East Africa region needed to encourage Ethiopia to undertake needed reforms and to halt its continued descent into chaos. A March