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Political infighting threatens Somalia’s government

As Somalia’s new prime minister, Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, gets ready to announce his new cabinet, analysts warn that the fragile…

Tuesday, January 14, 2014 @ 10:52 pm

The Water Ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan met in Khartoum last weekend, (January 4-5) for the third time to…

Saturday, January 11, 2014 @ 11:24 pm

They went in a bid to escape poverty, but few really succeeded, even if they did find work. Many were…

Friday, January 10, 2014 @ 10:52 pm

(Martin Plaut) The conflict in the Central African Republic is spiralling out of control. “Strife in Central African Republic could…

Friday, January 10, 2014 @ 10:23 pm

(Maker Mayek Riak) As the fighting continues in full swing in South Sudan, there is a growing amount of commentary…

Friday, January 10, 2014 @ 10:09 pm

There’s a joke about the US state of Ohio that goes something like this: “Twenty-four astronauts were born in Ohio.…

Thursday, January 2, 2014 @ 10:23 pm

The KCAA wanted to bulldoze the houses too close to Wilson Airport. It backtracked when it learned that some of…

Wednesday, January 1, 2014 @ 10:35 pm

(David J. Olson, Andrew Piller) When global family planning practitioners gathered in November for the Third International Conference on Family…

Wednesday, January 1, 2014 @ 8:50 pm

South Sudan President Salva Kiir announced an overnight curfew for civilians Monday after what he characterized as a failed coup…

Tuesday, December 17, 2013 @ 5:43 am

(By Magnus Taylor) In recent weeks I’ve had some interesting conversations, interviews and more formal sessions on the current political…

Sunday, November 24, 2013 @ 2:27 am