World Nov 27 Kidnappings, looting reported in Ethiopia’s Tigray region in weeks after truce Allies of Ethiopia’s federal military are looting property and carrying out mass detentions in Tigray, according to eyewitnesses and aid workers, raising fresh concern about alleged atrocities more than three weeks after the warring parties signed a truce.
World Sep 11 ‘I cannot mourn’: Former colonies conflicted over Queen Elizabeth II’s death Upon taking the throne in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II inherited millions of subjects around the world, many of them unwilling. Today, in the British Empire's former colonies, her death brings complicated feelings, including anger.
World Apr 06 Rights groups charge Ethiopia with ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Tigray region Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International charge in a new report that widespread abuses against civilians in the western part of Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
World Jan 10 World’s longest education lockdown ends as Uganda’s schools reopen Uganda's schools reopened their gates to students on Monday, ending the longest school disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic anywhere in the world.
World Nov 16 Explosions rock Uganda’s capital, Kampala, killing at least 3 The explosions caused chaos in Kampala as terrified residents fled the city’s center. A police spokesman blamed the bomb blasts on an extremist group known as the Allied Democratic Forces.
Politics Nov 02 Africa presses for more climate support at COP26 The head of the African Union, Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi, said the continent needs the world to contribute $12.5 billion of the $25 billion it needs to accelerate an adaptation program over the next five years.
World May 04 Ethiopia ‘at a crossroads’ amid spiraling ethnic conflict Six months have passed since the government launched a military operation in the Tigray region to capture its fugitive leaders. Widespread atrocities are reported and thousands have been killed.
World Mar 18 Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died at 61 President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh international spotlight, has died. He was 61 years old.
World Mar 16 Ethiopia rejects outside mediation in Nile River dam dispute An Ethiopian official said on Tuesday that his government opposes calls by Sudan for outside mediators including the United States in the ongoing dispute over Ethiopia's construction of a massive hydroelectric dam on the Nile River.
World Mar 11 Ethiopia’s leader faces intense pressure to end Tigray war Ethiopia's government on Thursday faced mounting pressure to withdraw troops from the northern region of Tigray amid growing reports of war crimes in an embattled area that now faces a humanitarian crisis.