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The recent claim by Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed that his country has a ‘natural right’ to directly access the Red Sea has raised eyebrows across the region and beyond, with experts and observers cautioning that Abiy takes a page from Russia and China in asserting the right to restore historical claim to strategic waters. […]
The UN Security Council extended Wednesday November 15 for a year the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) until Nov. 15, 2024. The extension came under resolution 2709, approved by 14 of the 15 Security Council members bar Russia which abstained. The resolution also decides that the peacekeeping mission, […]
Senegal’s President Macky Sall inaugurated Wednesday November 15 Kedougou airport, in South-East of the country, as part of his economic tour in the build-up to his exit from power. The airport had been rehabilitated and saw the upgrade of the security. Seydou Bâ, CEO of regional airports told media that the airport is now fully […]
Morocco emphasized, this Wednesday before the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, the importance of adopting dialogue as a means of resolving the crisis in brotherly Sudan and to prevent outside interference. Speaking on behalf of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, at a ministerial meeting of […]
Germany’s agency for International Cooperation, GIZ, has resumed activities in Congo Brazzaville nearly 27 years after exiting the central African country because of political instability. Arlette Soudan Nonault, the country’s minister of Sustainable development and Congo Bassin and the German ambassador Wolfgang Klapper inaugurated the offices of the Agency on Monday November 13 in capital […]
Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, head of ruling junta in Guinea, expelled Tuesday November 14 four Army top commanders few days after an attack on the country’s main prison to release former leader Moussa Dadis Camara standing on a trial for a massacre committed on protestors in 2009. A decree signed by Doumbouya announced that Colonel Pépé […]
Mali’s army has reportedly recaptured the strategic northern town of Kidal, which has been a stronghold of Tuareg-dominated separatist rebel groups that has long posed a major sovereignty issue for the ruling junta. “Today our armed and security forces have seized Kidal,” Colonel Assimi Goita said in a statement on Tuesday (14 November). “The (Malian […]
Liberians headed to the polls this Tuesday (14 November) to cast their vote in a presidential run-off after the two leading candidates — George Weah, a former footballer and incumbent president and political veteran Joseph Boakai — came neck to neck, separated by just over 7,000 votes in the first round a month ago. Liberian […]
The junta in power in Gabon known as the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI) unveiled Monday November 13 a timeline for the transition which will come to an end in August 2025 following general elections. The CRTI led by incumbent transitional leader General Brice Oligui Nguema came to power on August […]
Libya is seeking cooperation with African Union Center for Disease Control (CDC) in many fields including primary health care services, strengthen mental health services, as well as supporting response to epidemics and health emergencies, ‘Libya Observer’ reports citing the Libyan Foreign ministry. The North African country’s Health minister Ramadan Abu Janah met Monday November 13 […]