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British-Eritrean ISIS fighter boasts on a recruitment video from Syria

Abu Abdullah Al-Habashi fled the UK for the Middle East nine months ago Series of photos appear to show him…

Briefing: Somaliland, oil and security

The proposed deployment of armed contingents to protect oil installations in the self-declared Republic of Somaliland risks further destabilizing a…

Addis Ababa Doubling in Size Gives Africa Another Hub

Ethiopia, Africa’s fastest-growing economy, is looking to its capital to help sustain an expansion that averaged more than 10 percent…

Briefing: South Sudan heads towards famine

(IRIN) More than a third of South Sudan’s population is at risk of severe food insecurity as a result of…

Uganda’s Court annuls anti-gay legislation

Uganda's Constitutional Court has annulled tough anti-gay legislation signed into law in February. It ruled that the bill was passed…

Are China’s NGOs entering Africa?

(Hu Jianlong) In the evening of 18 May, the Africa Philanthropy Forum, held at a congress hall near the Lingshan…

The Egyptian-Ethiopian divide

(Abdel Latif el-Menawy) Mistakes begin when we only see what we want to see. Negative repercussions worsen when we insist…

Pope meets Sudanese woman sentenced to death

Pope Francis met privately Thursday with a Sudanese woman who refused to recant her Christian faith in the face of…

Ethiopia Becomes China’s China in Search for Cheap Labor

(Kevin Hamlin, Ilya Gridneff and William Davison) Ethiopian workers strolling through the parking lot of Huajian Shoes’ factory outside Addis…

Australia grants Ethiopian teen a permanent visa after months litigation

(Oliver Laughland) The immigration minister has issued a permanent protection visa to an unaccompanied minor who fled Ethiopia and arrived…

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