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Ethiopia: The Weeknd donates $1M to Ethiopians
R&B singer The Weeknd has promised to donate $1m (£700,000) to Ethiopians caught up in the conflict in Tigray. The star, born Abel Tesfaye in Canada, is the son of Ethiopian immigrants. “My heart breaks for my people of Ethiopia as innocent civilians ranging from small children to the elderly are being senselessly murdered,” he…
Ethiopian Airlines pilot lands at wrong Zambia airport
An Ethiopian Airlines cargo plane flying into Zambia accidentally landed at an airport that is still under construction, a government official said Monday. The plane hit the tarmac on Sunday at the uncompleted airport in Zambia’s northern Copperbelt province, which is currently served by the Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport around 15 kilometres (nine miles)…
Somalia: Icebreaker Meeting kicks off in Mogadishu
A closed meeting Somalia’s outgoing President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo and the regional state leaders has today started after weeks harsh warning by the international community & and the U.S to Farmajo’s administration to hold talks with the opposition. The meeting which is reportedly attended by the international community kicked off at the air force hangar…
Ethiopia: Gov’t Measure On TPLF Spared Horn From Becoming Hotspot For Terrorism
Addis Ababa, April 1, 2021 – Mulu Solomon , Ethiopian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary accredited to Germany, Czech Republic and Slovak Republic held a discussions with Nicol Adamcová, Director of the Department of Sub-Saharan Africa at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. Discussions focused on the latest developments on the Grand Ethiopian…
Somalia: UN urges Somali leaders to break impasse delaying elections
UNITED NATIONS (HAN) April 2. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. The U.N. Security Council called on Somalia’s leaders Wednesday to meet “at the earliest opportunity” to break the impasse delaying the holding of elections that had been scheduled for Feb. 8. The council said in a press statement after…
Ethiopia: Top UN Refugee Agency Official Replaced
The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has replaced its deputy head in Ethiopia, Mathijs Le Rutte, after the government raised concerns about his impartiality over the conflict in Tigray, reliable sources have told BBC Amharic. In an emailed response to our enquiries, the UNHCR confirmed that a decision had been taken to replace a…
Propaganda, War by Media & R2P Maneuvers Against Peace Process
Propaganda, War by Media & R2P Interventionist Maneuvers Against Peace Process in the New Horn of Africa» with Elias Amare and Prof. Mohamed Hassan on March 31 2021 for Horn of Africa TV. “Propaganda on massacres in Ethiopia may raise fears of intervention in Horn of Africa”, by Frans De Maegd, Investig’Action, 18 March, 2021.…
Mozambique’s The Newest Front In The US’ So-Called Global War On Terror
Many observers missed the US’ designation in early March of Mozambique’s “Al Shabaab” as an ISIS-affiliated global terrorist organization and its subsequent dispatch of roughly a dozen Green Berets to the country to aid the national military in its counter-terrorist operations, but this development signals that the Southern African state has importantly become the newest…
Desert locust infestation declines in Horn of Africa: FAO
NAIROBI, March 25 (Xinhua) — Delayed rains in the Horn of Africa have helped keeping the locust population down, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations said in its latest update on Thursday. “As a result of poor rains in Kenya and Ethiopia, the swarms currently present in both countries are remaining…
UN says 15 aid workers killed in Somalia in 2020
The UN humanitarian agency said Wednesday attacks on aid workers delivering humanitarian supplies in Somalia resulted in the death of 15 aid workers in 2020. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 12 workers were injured, 24 abducted and 14 arrested in 2020 in which 56 incidents involving aid workers were…
