Over the past few years, Djibouti has emerged as an increasingly important hub for weapons trans-shipment to armed groups in the region BY EXX AFRICA EXX Africa published a special report on the arms trade in the Horn of Africa. The trade of illegal weapons in the Horn of Africa remains highly lucrative and is comprehensively […]
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The attempt of the Sudanese president to engage with rival regional interests in a bid to stay in power might fail. BY AHMED H ADAM | AL JAZEERA Sudan’s political crisis is sliding into a dangerous phase. Its economy is on the verge of collapse. The price of food and other basic commodities is rising […]
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Ethiopians continue to look outside of their “double-digit growing” country for better life BY LISA SCLEIN | VOA NEWS The United Nations migration agency reports that thousands of Ethiopian migrants continue to make the perilous journey to war-torn Yemen in search of better economic opportunities despite the dangerous security conditions. Despite the ongoing war and […]
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Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has accused former President Ali Abdullah Salih of staging a coup, after he said he was open to talks with Saudi Arabia. BY TESFANEWS * Amid a growing problem of malnutrition and cholera outbreaks caused by the Saudi-led war on Yemen, the two branches of the northern Yemeni government have split and […]
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The war in Yemen already drains the Saudis militarily, politically and strategically. May be it’s time for the Kingdom and its allies to find a face-saving way to end the costly conflict. BY VINCENT LOFASO | EURASIA REVIEW In Geneva, Mohammad Ali Alnsour, the Chief of the UN Human Rights Office for the Middle East […]
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Attack on boat near Bab al-Mandeb Strait leaves dozens of Somali refugees dead. BY AL JAZEERA Dozens of Somali refugees have been killed off the coast of Hodeidah in Yemen after a helicopter attacked the boat they were travelling in, according to the International Organization for Migration. Joel Millman, spokesman for the Geneva-based agency, told […]
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By Kaitlin Lavinder | The Cipher Brief, Instability and terrorism in the Horn of Africa, along with a massive conflict on the other side of the Red Sea in Yemen, threaten U.S. interests in the region. Deputy Director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center, Bronwyn Bruton, writes in a recent report, “the United States could […]
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By Catherine Shakdam | for RT.com, Just when you thought the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region could not churn out any more crises… This time two giants are locking horns over conflicting geopolitical ambitions, or rather, Saudi Arabia might have overstepped one boundary too many against Egypt. With so many eyes locked in […]
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