Source: AfricaNews Monitoring Team with additional files from BBC Sudan’s president said will withdraw from peace talks with rebels in the western Darfur region if no deal is reached by Thursday. Mediators at the Qatar talks are currently in discussion with representatives of both sides. President Omar al-Bashir threatened to take the talks back to [...]
After the separation barrier against Palestinian territories, Israel has begun to build a new wall, this one to keep migrants from Africa out. The new wall is coming up on the Egyptian border, and with Egyptian support. The Israeli government approved plans late last month to build a detention camp near its border with Egypt [...]
Ogaden Online Thousands of Somalis are arbitrarily arrested and unlawfully detained every year in the Somali region of Ethiopia. The prisoners are housed in military bases, federal prisons, regional and local prisons, and unofficial detention facilities. According to a report titled Collective Punishment published by Human Rights Watch in June 11, 2008, in Jigjiga alone, [...]
By Alan Tacca Alan TaccaAfter a bitter war in which thousands upon thousands were armed in two armies facing each other, and after protracted negotiations, a state called Eritrea was created and split from Ethiopia. In the same Horn of Africa, a part of Somalia separated from the old country and called itself Somaliland. Somaliland has [...]
Africa Oil Corp., a Canadian oil and gas exploration company, said it signed an agreement with the Ethiopian government to survey the Rift Valley Block. The company will carry out an airborne geophysical survey of the 42,519 square-kilometer (16,417 square-mile) block, it said yesterday in a statement. The area is north of the South Omo [...]
Kenyan police have announced the arrest of 346 foreigners in the capital, Nairobi, after two separate grenade and gun attacks last week killed three policemen. Anthony Kibuchi, Nairobi’s provincial police chief, told Reuters news agency that 52 of those arrested were Ethiopians while the rest were of Somali origin. “The security operation on aliens was carried [...]
Top security chiefs held a crisis meeting in Nairobi on Sunday to map out strategies of fighting soaring crime in the country. The meeting convened by Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere was particularly keen to look for ways of curbing organised crime in the wake of twin grenade attacks in Nairobi on Friday when three police [...]
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