AFP By Karim Lebhour For years the Horn of Africa nation Djibouti was seen by foreign powers as a far-flung military outpost overlooking the Gulf of Aden, but now the strategic port wants to capitalise on its key position on one of the world's busiest shipping lanes Djibouti (AFP) – For years the Horn of
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By Mohammed Ghobari CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi shells hit an international humanitarian aid office in northern Yemen on Thursday, killing five Ethiopian refugees and wounding ten, a local official said. Artillery fire and air strikes hit the town of Maydee along Yemen’s border with Saudi Arabia in Hajja province, a stronghold of the Iran-allied Houthi
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By ZADOCK ANGIRA Police said the incident came just a week after surveyors had completed demarcating the Kenya-Ethiopia border. This is the third time Ethiopian forces have crossed the border into Kenya this year. Kenyan security agencies have been put on high alert after about 50 heavily-armed Ethiopian soldiers and police officers crossed the border
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By AFP JUBA- Rebels in South Sudan have launched a large-scale attack on the strategic northern oil hub and state capital of Malakal, an official and aid sources said Saturday. Fierce fighting was reported to be raging inside the town, situated in the country’s oil-rich north, in what appeared to be a major counter-attack against
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Kenya has sent a protest note to Ethiopia after the aborted presidential trip to the United States last month. It was revealed Sunday that the President’s jet turned back after Ethiopian authorities advised the pilot to change the flight course in a bid to avoid the Yemen airspace. It also emerged that President Uhuru Kenyatta’s
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Saudi Arabia on Monday beheaded five foreigners for murder and robbery, an unusually high number that adds to what Amnesty International has called a “macabre spike” in the kingdom’s executions. Two Yemenis, a Chadian, an Eritrean and a Sudanese were put to death in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, the interior ministry said in
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BY EUGENE OKUMU President Uhuru Kenyatta with Deputy President William Ruto at JKIA shortly before he left for the 2015 Milken Global Conference in Los Angeles, USA. Uhuru cancelled the trip after the plane was allegedly turned back over increasing airstrikes in Yemen. Photo/PSCU The request to fly through the airspace was granted within 20
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Juba (AFP) – A South Sudanese opposition leader who has spoken out against both sides in the civil war said Saturday he was spending a second day under house arrest without any explanation from the government. Opposition politician Lam Akol said his home in the capital Juba, which is under the control of the government
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ASMARA- South Sudan dispatched a high-level envoy for talks with Eritrea’s president Saturday in spite of recommitting Friday to the IGAD mediation process led by Ethiopia. Chief Negotiator Nhial Deng Nhial and a delegation of other South Sudanese officials were received at the Eritrean State House on Saturday by President Isaias Afwerki. The negotiator was
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