Putin hosts major summit as Kremlin scrambles for Africa
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hosts dozens of African leaders for the first Russia-Africa Summit, as Moscow seeks greater influence on a continent where the...
Year : 2019
Justin Trudeau wins second term in hard-fought Canada election
Justin Trudeau was on course to win a second term as Canada’s prime minister in an election seen as a referendum on the Liberal leader...
Rwanda bans all single-use plastics
Rwanda becomes the first regional country to issue a complete ban on all single-use plastics and retailers have three months to clear their stocks and...
Tens of thousands rally against former ruling party in Sudan
Tens of thousands of Sudanese demonstrated in Khartoum and other cities on Monday to call for the former ruling party to be dissolved and for...
Somalia aims to reduce poverty, pump up infrastructure after debt erased
Somalia will press ahead with poverty reduction efforts and a major regional ports and corridors initiative if international creditors forgive the country’s $5 billion debt...
Syria Kurds call for humanitarian corridor to evacuate ‘dead and wounded’ civilians
Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria have called for a humanitarian corridor “to evacuate dead and wounded civilians” from a flashpoint border town encircled by Ankara’s...
Israel report: ‘Hamas will win legislative elections
Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian estimates suggest that Hamas will win legislative elections if they are held, a report by the Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom stated...
‘Killing without any reason’: Deaths in rural Ethiopia spark outcry
For decades, herders in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley have relied on guns to fend off rivals as well as hyenas and lions roaming the forests...
Time to be realistic in Syria policy by Yusuf Kanli
Right from the beginning, many people warned that Syria was no Iraq, Yemen or Libya. After 10 years of war of attrition that exhausted the...
How local radio boosts climate change adaptation
In the Horn of Africa, local radio stations provide updates on entertainment, sports and health, so why not weather and climate too? The Greater Horn...