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Tag: Horn of Africa
Egypt’s president warns Cairo won’t allow any threat to Somalia amid dispute with Ethiopia
Cairo will stand shoulder to shoulder with Somalia and will not allow any threat to the Horn of Africa country, Egypt’s president has said, referring ... Read More
Somalia formally joins East Asian Community but enormous security challenges remain
Somalia has finally been admitted to the East African Community (EAC) as its eighth member, thirteen years after its original application to join, as the ... Read More
Ethiopian PM’s call for Red Sea port access sends jitters across Horn of Africa
Horn of Africa is concerned about a new war in the battle-scarred region after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s call for a direct port access ... Read More
Sudanese army calls again on civilians to register
Khartoum was rocked on Monday by heavy artillery fire from paramilitaries and the army, besieged on several fronts and once again calling for civilian reinforcements ... Read More
China woos Ethiopia, pledging food, trade, investments for Horn of Africa
While China’s global competition has been a well-known fact, Beijing now signals an expansion of its ambitions in the Horn of Africa, as evidenced by ... Read More
Jill Biden visits Kenya, calls for more aid to deal with record drought in Horn of Africa
US First Lady Jill Biden, who was on a two-day visit in Kenya over the weekend, called on wealthy nations to give more to countries ... Read More
Horn of Africa drought likely to become worse than 2011 catastrophic famine
Drought trends in the Horn of Africa are now worse than they were during the 2011 famine in which hundreds of thousands of people died, ... Read More
Hope for jobs rather than religion drives recruitment by armed groups in Africa — UN report
The lack of employment more than religious belief is what is driving people to join fast-growing extremist groups in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report ... Read More
Eritrea fuels Ethiopia’s bloody civil war in Tigray region in bid to crush its old foe
Eritrea is intensifying its involvement in neighboring Ethiopia’s civil war, including by instituting forced conscription to strengthen its army, in a bid to crush the ... Read More
First UN ship delivers food relief from Ukraine to drought-hit Horn of Africa
The first UN-chartered ship carrying Ukrainian grain to Africa since the flare up of the Russia-Ukraine conflict arrived in Djibouti on Tuesday (30 August) to ... Read More