NAIROBI, Nov 17 (Reuters) – Climate change and security in Ethiopia, Sudan and the Sahel are set to top the agenda as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Nairobi on Wednesday to visit three of the continent’s major players: Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal. Blinken’s first Africa trip follows the COP26 climate talks in…
JERUSALEM (AP) — For nearly 10 years, Monim Haroon has only known one home: Israel. Like thousands of Sudanese migrants, he lives and works without legal status, fearing that a return to his native land would be a death sentence. Israel’s normalization of ties with Sudan, announced last year, had raised fears among the migrants that they…
Most of those detained are ethnic Tigrayans with the UN chief warning arrests could ‘widen divisions and resentments’. At least 1,000 people, mostly ethnic Tigrayans, have been detained in cities across Ethiopia since a state of emergency was declared two weeks ago, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The state of emergency came into force…
A gas explosion in Lagos on Tuesday killed at least five people, including a child, an emergency services official told The Associated Press. A National Emergency Management Agency spokesperson confirmed three men, one woman and a ten-year-old boy had died, adding the rescue operation was ongoing. The fire broke out after a cylinder exploded at…
Mogadishu’s only free ambulance service, launched in 2006 with used 1999 model ambulance, now has 20 vehicles. ANKARA Struck by the lack of ambulances on the busy streets of Somalia’s capital, Abdulkadir Abdirahman Adan founded a free public ambulance service in Mogadishu 15 years ago that survives on one dollar donations. Launched with a single…
Officials offer over half-a-million-dollar reward for information leading to arrest of fugitive terrorists. NAIROBI, Kenya A terrorist involved in the one of the worst terror attacks in Kenyan history was among three al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab terrorists who on Monday escaped from prison in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. “A reward of 60 Million shillings ($535,236) will be…
Japanese forces based off coast of Somalia to help secure safe passage of commercial ships. ISTANBUL Japan on Tuesday extended by one year the mission of its forces deployed in Somalia guarding the passage of commercial ships in the Gulf of Aden. The government of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio approved the extension of the country’s…
An inquiry panel has submitted a report which says Nigerian armed forces shot and killed anti-police brutality protesters last year. Tens of thousands of Nigerians took to the streets last October calling for the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars) police unit to be disbanded. The report, leaked on Monday, has identified 48 casualties after the army…
Annitta Cele is a marketing diploma graduate . She says she’s been trying to find a job in her field for three years. She’s resorted to an unconventional way of making money. ” I lost a job in October 2018. It has been three years looking for a job- applying every where. What I basically…
Former president of the apartheid government, FW de Klerk. The funeral of South Africa’s last white president, Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk, who died on Thursday aged 85, will take place on November 21 in a private ceremony, his foundation said in a statement on Sunday. De Klerk, who won praise worldwide for his role in…