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Ethiopia may host AU summit after Sudan-Malawi row

Malawi won’t host an African Union summit next month after a dispute over the southern African country’s refusal to host…

Egypt’s Elections: Court may throw everything topsy-turvy this week

Highlights: Only two days before the election, the Supreme Constitutional Court will consider two cases that could potentially throw everything…

Kenya to probe Security Minister’s death

Kenyan Internal Security Minister George Saitoti and Assistant Internal Security Minister Joshua Orwa Ojode have been killed in a helicopter…

As Ethiopian troops vacate a central Somalia town; Al-Shabaab moved in

Ethiopian troops and allied Somalian militia withdrew from a town in central Somalia yesterday, according to reports from Somalia media.…

Hundreds of fresh Ethiopian troops crossed into southern Somalia | Media report

A Somalian news outlet, Mareeg.com, reported on yesterday midnight, citing unnamed residents and officials, that: ‘hundreds of fresh Ethiopian troops…

Ethiopia: State-owned paper Op-Ed asks gov’t to lower oil prices

The state-owned daily, Addis Zemen, asked the government to reduce oil prices inline with current global prices. Addis Zemen is…

Briefing | Ethio-Djibouti Joint Border Commission meeting

The 18th Ethio-Djibouti Joint Border Administrators and Commissioners’ Committee meeting was held this week, June 5th-6th in Dire Dawa. Ethiopia’s…

Kenya: UN report lists 7 Nairobi buildings as Al-Shabaab targets

* An internal UN security report circulated last Wednesday says Kenyan police listed seven buildings, the headquarters of the revenue…

Netherland’s Minister visits Puntland, Somalia

Netherlands Minister for International Cooperation and European Affairs visited Garowe, the capital of Puntland - the self-declared semi-autonomous region of…

Somalia: Kenya postpones Kismayo assault, despite Ethiopian pressure

The Kenyan army would like to wrest the Somalian port of Kismayo from the Al Shabaab Islamist militia by August, just…

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