By Stefan Smith Nairobi (AFP) – From hit and run attacks and massacres to a shopping trip, Somali-led Shebab militants are on the march in northeastern Kenya. With large numbers of troops in southern Somalia but seemingly unable to effectively police its own outer regions, Kenya must react quickly to stop the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamists from
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By Stefan Smith Nairobi (AFP) – From hit and run attacks and massacres to a shopping trip, Somali-led Shebab militants are on the march in northeastern Kenya. With large numbers of troops in southern Somalia but seemingly unable to effectively police its own outer regions, Kenya must react quickly to stop the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamists from
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Israeli police locked arms to push back hundreds of ethnic Ethiopian anti-racism protesters on Wednesday in Tel Aviv where many tried to block a major traffic artery. Police said two protesters of some 400 protesters at the scene were detained. Television photographers saw five demonstrators led away. There were no reported injuries in the confrontation
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FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: Demonstrater outside parliament. ‘Any Kenyan passing by does not automatically assume that this person is mad. For them, he is one citizen who is practising his right of dissent, picket and protest. Had it been in Ethiopia, this man could be writing his own death warrant.’ Sometime back in December last year,
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MOGADISHU, 2015 (Xinhua) — At least 50 people were killed and scores of others injured in border clashes between Somali clan militia and Ethiopian government paramilitary unit since last week, the Somali authorities said on Monday. Somalia’s Galgadud region governor, Hussein Weheliye Cirfo, said most of the victims are civilians in the week-long fighting between
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Addis Ababa (AFP) – Ethiopia’s main opposition party on Friday condemned weekend elections, which saw the ruling party cruise back into office, as a “disgrace” and proof the country was a one-party state. According to preliminary results from last Sunday’s elections, the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn secured
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(STANDARD DIGITAL) – Kenya has deployed military troops along Sololo border following Tuesday’s invasion of Ethiopian government soldiers into three villages in Uran Ward within the county. The military arrived in Sololo District on Tuesday, hours after the Ethiopian soldiers had left after invading villages and have been patrolling the border since then. Uran Ward
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By Anita Powell May 28, 2015 ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — VOA -you a journalist?” the young man asks me as we board the elevator. In Ethiopia, this is a loaded question. It earned me an extra 45-minute wait at airport immigration as officials thumbed through my passport, pawed through my luggage and asked me what
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(CNN) – A top State Department official — Wendy Sherman — will depart following the completion of the Iran nuclear talks, a source confirms to CNN. Sherman, the under secretary for political affairs, is the fourth-ranking State Department official. (Freedom House) – “Under Secretary Sherman’s comments today were woefully ignorant and counter-productive,” said Daniel Calingaert,
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A studious former academic said to lack charisma finds himself both branded an autocrat and praised as a steady hand. Hailemariam was initially seen by analysts as a compromise and placeholder candidate who would do as he was told [Al Jazeera] It must be tough to be barely a few weeks into a new job
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