BY NATNAEL YEBIO Wednesday match day 6 of the CECAFA Under-15 boys challenge cup pitted group B’s Tanzania against South Sudan. In the early proceedings, Tanzania saw much of the ball. It looked clear from early on that South Sudan were going to stick to their defending tactics as they had done in their previous […]
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BY THOMAS C MOUNTAIN With the CIA’s Dirty War in South Sudan winding down its time to take a brief but comprehensive look at the origins and history of this most secret of Pax Americana crimes in Africa. It is in the national interests of the USA to deprive China of access to African energy […]
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BY PROF. AL MARIAM Praxis is simply the practical application of theory. In praxis, one is not interested in trying to understand the world in the abstract but to act in the world in order to change it and make it better. Last week, H.E. Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed was doing whirlwind shuttle diplomacy […]
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BY TESFANEWS Ethiopia’s PM Abiy Ahmed and his Eritrean counterpart President Isaias Afwerki have departed from Asmara International Airport on Monday morning to Juba, the Republic of South Sudan, for one-day work visit and tripartite summit with President Salva Kiir on regional issues of mutual interest.
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BY SUDAN TRIBUNE The Eritrean and Ethiopian leaders are expected on Monday in Juba for talks with President Salva Kiir who had to interrupt a tour in the Greater Bahr el Ghazal region.
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UN-OCHA: 700,000 people (Kenya), 1.6 million people (Somalia), 6.1 million people (South Sudan), 7.9 million people (Ethiopia) and 6.2 million people (Sudan) are food insecure. BY XINHUA The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) revealed on Wednesday that 22.4 million people in the Horn of Africa region need food aid.
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BY AGENCIES * South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar signed a peace agreement on Wednesday in the margins of a regional summit in Ethiopia. South Sudan plunged into warfare two years after gaining independence from Sudan in 2011 when a political dispute between Kiir and Machar exploded into military confrontation.
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BY THOMAS C MOUNTAIN All roads to peace in the Horn of Africa seem to run through the Eritrean capital of Asmara these days, with the latest peace initiative allying Ethiopia and Eritrea looking like it will be bringing peace to South Sudan.
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