On April 25, 2023 the Ethiopian government and Oromo militants will meet at the negotiating table in Tanzania. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said that two events will happen this week. First; “all regional states presidents will travel to Mekelle” to help cement the peace agreement reached in Pretoria, South Africa in November 2022. Second;…
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World Urge Sudan Combatants to Stop Fighting
By Anita Powell White House — U.S. officials in Congress and the White House on Tuesday urged Sudan’s warring parties to stand down after four days of clashes in the capital, but analysts say Washington’s leverage over Khartoum may be limited. Fighting in Khartoum sparked Saturday between members of the Sudanese Armed Forces and the…
South Africa Faces Longer Power Cuts as Electricity Crisis Mounts
According to media , power utility Eskom failed to disclose that South Africa was plunged into Stage 8 load shedding last week. The embattled power utility then announced that Stage 6 would be continued “indefinitely” after Unit 2 at Koeberg Power Station outside Cape Town, tripped. The breakdown at Koeberg, one of Eskom’s most reliable…
Fierce Clashes Between Sudan’s Rival Military Forces Spread
As fighting in Khartoum and elsewhere in Sudan intensified on April 16, UN Special Representative Volker Perthes announced that a “temporary pause in fighting on humanitarian grounds” was accepted by leaders of the warring military factions – General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces, and General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, Commander of the Rapid…
Civilians Suffer as Violence Flares Up in Mali
The security situation in Mali remains quite volatile, marked by pockets of terrorist violence, with devastating consequences for civilians, the top UN official there said on Wednesday. El-Ghassim Wane, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Mission in Mali, MINUSMA, briefed the Security Council on major developments in the West African country over…
3,500 African Union Soldiers Killed in Somalia Since 2007
By Harun Maruf Thousands of African Union peacekeepers have been killed and hundreds more injured in Somalia since the forces began their work in that country in early 2007, the head of their mission told VOA Somali. The peacekeepers were deployed to help protect the government and installations from al-Qaida-affiliated al-Shabab militants. Mohamed El-Amine Souef,…
Ethiopia’s Controversial Dam ‘a Potential Boon for All’
A view of a wall of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam (file photo). ANALYSIS By Jennifer Holleis With 90% of the Grand Ethiopian Reservoir Dam completed, Sudan has now turned into a supporter. Though Egypt is critical of the project, experts have ruled out war and point to potential benefits for the whole region. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance…
Concern as More Medical Practitioners Continue to Leave Nigeria
ABUJA By Patience Ivie Ihejirika While Nigeria’s population is expanding geometrically, the health care workforce is shrinking drastically, as doctors to patient ratio in the country drops to 1:10,000 as against the World Health Organisation’s recommendation of 1:1,000. The mass exodus of skilled medical practitioners from Nigeria is deepening the existing health care crisis, with…
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