Ethiopia reconnects Tigray’s capital to national power grid after year-long blackout

The capital of the Tigray region has been reconnected to Ethiopia’s national power grid after more than a year cut off due to the war in this northern region of Ethiopia. The announcement by the national electricity company comes just over a month after the signing of a peace agreement between the Tigrayan rebels and […]

Egypt: Cairo slams British envoy’s critics and International condemnation of Al-Jazeera journos’ sentences

Egyptian foreign ministry summoned the British ambassador to Egypt and criticized the international barrage over court ruling on the Al Jazeera journalists accused of “false information”. The British ambassador John Casson was summoned Sunday by the Foreign Ministry after he described on Saturday the court ruling handing three year prison sentence to three Al-Jazeera journalists […]

Algeria: Army urged protesters to go to July 4 presidential poll as way out of political quagmire

The Chief of the Algerian army has called on protesters and the opposition to accept the planned July 4 presidential elections, noting that the poll is the only way forward to avoid power vacuum after unpopular transition president’s 90 days come to an end. Algeria has been reeling from tumultuous political uncertainty since March after […]