KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — South Sudan President Salva Kiir has assured U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that he would sign a peace deal with his rival within days, the State Department said Wednesday, as fighting resumed in parts of the country. During a telephone call, Kiir assured the top American diplomat that he would
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — South Sudan President Salva Kiir has assured U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that he would sign a peace deal with his rival within days, the State Department said Wednesday, as fighting resumed in parts of the country. During a telephone call, Kiir assured the top American diplomat that he would
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Source: Al Ahram, By Menna Alaa El-Din A deadline for the foreign consultancy firms to finalise their report on the dam will be decided when the tripartite committee meets later this week Egypt’s Minister of Irrigation, Hossam Moghazi, said on Monday that the tripartite committee for Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam will meet on 20 and 21
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By Nahom Mola When all is said and done, President Obama’s speech to the Kenyan people delivered at the Safaricom Arena on July 26th (Obama’s Nairobi speech), was perhaps the highlight of his historic trip to Kenya and Ethiopia, the two East African countries he visited back-to-back last month. Obama’s Kenya visit will be particularly
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On his fourth trip to Africa, President Obama celebrated a changing continent. A change that he did not see, however, was growing numbers of workers in jobs that pay good wages and offer some employment security. In fact, except for a few high-tech entrepreneurs in Kenya and the staff of a U.S.-sponsored food supplement plant
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AFP- Addis Ababa: US President Barack Obama landed in Ethiopia on Sunday, beginning a two-day stay and becoming the first American leader to visit Africa’s second most populous nation. Air Force One touched down at Addis Ababa’s international airport after a short flight north from the Kenyan capital Nairobi, and the president was greeted on
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AFP-US President Barack Obama heads to Ethiopia, the first American president to visit Africa’s second most populous nation and a key but much maligned ally in the fight against terrorism ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – US President Barack Obama heads to Ethiopia Sunday, July 26, the first American president to visit Africa’s second most populous nation
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African Union troops are having their “worst year” in Somalia since 2011. Can they still mount a final offensive against the al Qaeda-linked group? BY TY MCCORMICK TOROTOROW, Somalia — African Union troops, draped in shimmering belts of ammunition and sweating under the weight of their body armor, kept an uneasy watch as their commander
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BY REDIET WEGAYEHU Barack Obama will become the first ever sitting U.S. president to visit Ethiopia. This is a testament to the firm friendship that the two countries enjoy. Ethiopia has had a close relationship with the U.S. ever since Emperor Menlik II earned recognition as the only sovereign state leader in Africa after defeating
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President Obama covered a wide range of issues in his interview with the BBC’s Jon Sopel. Barack Obama spoke with the BBC ahead of his trip to East Africa. Here is the full transcript of North America Editor Jon Sopel’s conversation with the US president. Going to Kenya JON SOPEL: Mr President, you’re about to
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