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South Sudan’s Murle gunmen Thursday raided Dima refugee camp in the Gambella region of Ethiopia, killing one person and wounding two others.
The rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) have intensified their preparedness for a military offensive in Ethiopia’s Afar region, displacing over 300,000 residents from the region, according to the federal government.
The World Food Program (WFP) has said that $327 million is urgently needed to tackle the severe drought blighting the horn of Africa where millions of people face acute famine.
The African Union has appointed Fiona Lortan as the Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson of the AU Commission to Somalia and Deputy Head of AMISOM in the country, APA can report on Wednesday.
The United Nations’ Secretary General on Tuesday made the “strongest possible appeal” for all parties in Ethiopia to immediately end the fighting in Tigray and other areas, in the spirit of the General Assembly’s Olympic Truce which began just a few days ago.
The 40th ordinary session of the Executive Council of the African Union(AU) opened on Wednesday with leaders of the AU commission and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa(UNECA) expressing concern over increasing security threats including unconstitutional change of government and infectious diseases such as COVID-19 across the African continent.
Despite the criticisms levelled against the African Union over the last two decades, it is far from being a docile follower of the orders of its member states, writes Thomas Kwasi Tieku, Associate Professor of Political Science, King’s University College.
State-run Ethio Telecom has scooped $580 million in revenue in the first half of the current Ethiopian fiscal year which began on July 8, 2021.
The African Union has suspended Burkina Faso from participating in the activities of the pan-African organization until constitutional order is restored in the country.
The Ethiopian government on Wednesday announced the end the six-month state of emergency ahead of its expiration amid improving security situation.