Turkey-brokered Ethiopia-Somalia deal to end tensions, resolve Somaliland dispute

Ethiopia and Somalia reached an agreement Wednesday (11 December) to ease diplomatic tensions and begin “technical talks” by February to try to resolve a dispute over a controversial maritime access signed by Ethiopia with Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland, according to a statement following talks in Turkey. This announcement came following a third round of […]

Mauritania: 6 candidates register for June 21 elections

Registration with the Mauritanian Constitutional Council has ended with six candidates willing to contest in the June 21 presidential polls. Most of the opposition political parties are boycotting the elections because they claim that it lack s credibility and transparency.  Some of the candidates will be vying for the presidency for the first time and […]

Five Egyptian soldiers killed in fresh attack

An attack carried out by a group of militants killed Wednesday five Egyptian military personnel in North Sinai, the second such an attack in less than one week after the Islamic state group (ISIS) claimed a first attack that slain 11 security forces. Two security sources told Reuters that unidentified armed men assaulted a security […]