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Sahara: Washington Backs UN-Led Efforts for Peaceful & Lasting Political Solution

The US government has renewed its firm backing to the sustained efforts engaged by the United Nations for achieving a peaceful, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution to the Sahara regional conflict. ‎In a press release issued by the State Department following the meeting held Thursday in Rabat between Secretary of State Micheal Pompeo and […]

AU calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Ethiopia’s Tigray region as fighting intensifies

The African Union’s (AU) chairman has called for an “immediate, unconditional ceasefire” in the two-year-old conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, whereby his call for a truce comes as the pan-African body makes efforts to bring the warring sides to the negotiating table. African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat expressed “grave concern” in a […]

Ethiopia pardons dozens of political detainees

Ethiopia will release from jail 63 opposition activists and other high-ranking government critics by the end of the week, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office said on Tuesday.   The decision had been taken “for the national good” and investigations against them had been dropped, Zinabu Tubu was quoted as saying.   “The Ethiopian […]