“Only after Al-Bashir safely touched down in Khartoum on Monday, were Sudanese troops withdrawn. While the fiasco around President Omar Al-Bashir’s possible arrest in Johannesburg escalated, the Sudanese troops held about 1 400 South African soldiers in Darfur “hostage,” according to a report. The South African National Defence Union’s Pikkie Greeff on Tuesday told EWN
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Some African leaders say the International Criminal Court has unfairly targeted African heads of state Zimbabwean leader and African Union chairman Robert Mugabe on Tuesday harshly criticized the International Criminal Court (ICC) after Sudan’s president dodged an international arrest order by leaving early from a meeting of the continent’s leaders in South Africa, a news
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By JONATHAN OWEN Fears are growing for the state of mind of a British father of three who has languished in a secret jail in Ethiopia for almost a year. Andargachew “Andy” Tsege, who has been sentenced to death, reportedly told the British ambassador during a rare visit: “Seriously, I am happy to go –
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By JONATHAN OWEN Fears are growing for the state of mind of a British father of three who has languished in a secret jail in Ethiopia for almost a year. Andargachew “Andy” Tsege, who has been sentenced to death, reportedly told the British ambassador during a rare visit: “Seriously, I am happy to go –
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CAIRO: The Ministry of Youth will host 100 young Ethiopian men and women for a camp held in Cairo in September in the framework of Egypt’s strategy to strengthen ties with Nile Basin states, Youm 7 reported Monday. The camp’s program includes cultural sightseeing activities in Cairo and Alexandria; most notably visiting the Giza pyramids,
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AFP- Johannesburg – Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir flew out of South Africa on Monday, dodging a court order for him to stay as judges weighed up whether he should be arrested over alleged war crimes and genocide. Bashir had travelled to Johannesburg for an African Union summit that was overshadowed by the International Criminal Court
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Djibouti hosts the largest American permanent military base in Africa Djibouti, a small country on the Red Sea, is already home to military bases from the US and France, the former colonial power, but China’s interest is now becoming increasingly apparent. What makes this horn of Africa nation attractive to global military powers? Port in
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Why South Africa let Bashir get away Once again, the ICC comes out as a toothless entity in the wrangling over African leaders accused of war crimes. A provisional court order was issued on Sunday to prevent Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir from leaving South Africa where he had been attending the African Union (AU) summit.
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Why South Africa let Bashir get away Once again, the ICC comes out as a toothless entity in the wrangling over African leaders accused of war crimes. A provisional court order was issued on Sunday to prevent Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir from leaving South Africa where he had been attending the African Union (AU) summit.
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IOM evacuated 200 Ethiopian migrants by boat from Yemen, to Djibouti. The evacuation, which took place on Wednesday June 10, involved two boats carrying evacuees to the Djibouti port of Obock. After a 24-hour journey across the Red Sea between Al Hudaydah, in Yemen, and the port of Obock all migrants arriving at the port
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