(BBC)- Between April and July 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days. Rwanda has suspended BBC broadcasts in the Kinyarwanda language with immediate effect because of a film questioning official accounts of the 1994 genocide. The Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency (Rura) said it had received complaints from the public
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Some 700 Chinese peacekeepers are expected to join a United Nations mission in South Sudan at the start of next year, the head of the U.N. operation said on Wednesday, though she appealed for Beijing to deploy the battalion “sooner rather than later.” China announced last month that
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By Mading Ngor: Bloomberg East African leaders will meet in South Sudan’s capital today for a summit on the latest efforts to end the country’s 10-month-old civil war. South Sudanese President Salva Kiir will brief leaders from Kenya, Uganda andEthiopia on the outcome of a meeting he held with rebel leader Riek Machar in Tanzania, Foreign Ministry spokesman
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Sudan Tribune By Tesfa-Alem Tekle October 22, 2014 (ADDIS ABABA) – South Sudan government has unexpectedly recalled its ambassador to Ethiopia in a move an official described as “a normal administrative practice”. South Sudan foreign affairs spokesperson Mawien Makol (Photo credit: citizen-news) Family sources told Sudan Tribunethat David Dang Kong was asked by the foreign
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Al-Masry Al-Youm Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi will have a joint meeting at the end of the year to evaluate studies over navigational linking between Victoria Lake and the Mediterranean at Alexandria seaport. The project will link the Nile Basin countries and increase volume of the intra-regional trade. Ahmed Bahaa, head of
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Marthe van der Wolf VOA-Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the country is protected at all times from attacks by the Somali militant group al-Shabab but is asking its citizens to be vigilant. The American Embassy in Addis Ababa issued a terror warning earlier this week. Ethiopia’s government says that despite the terror alert issued
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(KHARTOUM) – Three Ethiopian peacekeepers were killed in North Darfur state following an attack by unknown gunmen, announced the African Union United Nation Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) on Thursday. UNAMID said two military personnel were killed immediately by the assailants in Korma where the attack took place while a third soldier seriously injured succumbed to
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By Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) – At least five people were killed and several wounded when a car bomb planted by Islamist militant group al Shabaab exploded near restaurants on a busy street in the Somali capital on Wednesday. Al Shabaab, which wants to topple the government it says is a puppet of Western powers,
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— A Kenyan woman has made a video in which she begs to be saved from her allegedly abusive employers, who are mistreating her in Saudi Arabia Njeri Mwaura filmed a video pleading with Kenyans to get her out of Saudi Arabia. (Photo Source: Trending Kenya). A tearful Kenyan woman pleaded with Kenyans to rescue her
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The New York Times By VITTORIO LONGHI In Europe’s debate about how to deal with the flow of desperate migrants from Africa, there is an important element missing: the crisis in Eritrea. Every month almost 4,000 Eritreans flee to escape oppression, according to a United Nations special rapporteur. A visit to Asmara, the Eritrean capital,
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