Africa
American writer and security analyst Paul B Henze, who served in the Carter administration as a deputy to National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, once made a very astute observation about Eritrea’s current president, Isaias Afwerki. In his 2007 book, Ethiopia in Mengistu’s Final Years: Until the Last Bullet, he noted “Isaias impressed me as remarkably similar in temperament and attitudes to Mengistu [Haile Mariam, Eritrea’s former dictator who has overseen the killings of tens of thousands of opposition figures and civilians]. He has many of the same mannerisms, a rather bulldoggish seriousness, a defensiveness behind a facade of feigned reasonableness…
The Trump administration has frequently sparred with South Africa over the legacy of apartheid and…
The global medical charity says the situation has worsened with the arrival of refugees from…
South Africa’s F1 bid – all you need to know
More than three decades after Formula One engines last roared on African tarmac, South Africa…
Officials from US and Israel say governments of Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland have been asked…
Alan Boswell of the International Crisis Group unpacks South Sudan’s escalating violence, who’s behind it,…
South Sudan: surge in violence pushes country to “precipice” Read the full article here
The SADC mission that has suffered losses this year will conduct a ‘phased withdrawal’ of…
On January 20, President Donald Trump sanctioned a 90-day halt on foreign aid, a decision…
In parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), communities are gearing up for…
Cuts to humanitarian relief could mean less help for people in Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine…
A spokesperson for DRC’s President Felix Tshisekedi told the Reuters news agency that they had…
Mogadishu, Somalia – Mukhtar Abdiwhab Ahmed sits in a plastic chair outside his house in…
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