Politics | Horn Affairs

Aid agencies finance rebels inadvertently: Médecins Sans Frontières researcher

Highlights: * "That fighting forces seek to take advantage of aid groups is unavoidable,.....The fact is that unless we provide…

Sunday, October 30, 2011 @ 8:24 am

Ethiopia and South Sudan have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Technical Assistance and Cooperation for the placement of sixty…

Saturday, October 29, 2011 @ 3:00 am

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said, ‘there are no U.S. military bases in Ethiopia’. Mr. Carney made the remark…

Friday, October 28, 2011 @ 11:04 pm

An estimated 45 Al-Shabaab fighters ambushed Kenyan troops who were travelling from the Somali town of Tabda to Beles Qooqani,…

Friday, October 28, 2011 @ 6:18 am

Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki has asked to come and personally speak to the Security Council, a US media reported a…

Friday, October 28, 2011 @ 4:49 am

Last month, the Washington Post reported that: ‘the Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism…

Friday, October 28, 2011 @ 4:03 am

Kenyan Army denied media reports of Kenyan fighter jets crash in Somalia. On Tuesday, the Iranian Press-TV reported ‘two Kenyan…

Thursday, October 27, 2011 @ 1:12 am

[From: A Week in the Horn of Africa, Oct. 21, 2011 issue.] Terrorism, security, civil liberties and human rights organizations …

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 @ 10:00 pm

Two bomb explosions took place in Nairobi yesterday. The latest explosion occurred in a crowded working-class bus stop on Monday…

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 @ 1:47 pm

The border land between Kenya and Ethiopia is a vast, open plain under a big sky. Hard red earth shows…

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 @ 1:45 pm