At least thirty – seven people died in violent clashes between Ugandan security forces and supporters of opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine this week , marking a particularly violent start to the country’ s election season. Two days of protests were sparked by Wine ’ s arrest ahead of a political rally in the run […]
Ethiopia’s Tigray forces fired rockets into the city of Bahir Dar in the Amhara region on Friday but caused no damage, the regional government said. The Tigray fighters similarly hit Eritrea a few days ago. The conflict in northern Ethiopia has killed hundreds over the past two weeks and sent 33,000 refugees into Sudan. It […]
Sixteen people have been killed in two days of violent clashes between Ugandan security forces and supporters of detained opposition leader Bobi Wine, police said Thursday, as tensions flared two months before a presidential election. Ugandan security forces fired teargas and rubber bullets at angry protesters who set fires, barricaded roads and looted stores in […]
Ethiopia’s army chief on Thursday accused WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus — the country’s highest-profile Tigrayan abroad — of lobbying for and seeking to arm leaders in the conflict-torn dissident region. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed unleashed a military campaign against the northern region on November 4 with the declared aim of unseating its ruling party, […]
US rapper Lil Wayne was charged Tuesday in Florida with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon over an incident dating back to last year — a federal offense that could see him sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. The 38-year-old artist, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr, was found […]
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed warned on Tuesday that a three-day deadline for rebel forces in Tigray to surrender has expired. The country’s forces are now set for a final push on Mekelle, the capital of Tigray. The prime minister’s warning came after government forces carried out “precision led and surgical air operations” outside Mekelle, […]
Leaders of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray on Saturday claimed rocket attacks on two airports in a nearby region and threatened to strike neighbouring Eritrea, raising tensions that the escalating conflict could spread across national borders. The attacks — and threats of more — fuelled concern that a conflict Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed vowed would be […]
Fourteen soldiers were killed after their patrol was ambushed in northern Burkina Faso in one of the worst attacks on the army during a five-year-old jihadist insurgency, the government said. The attack took place Wednesday in the country’s north, near the border with Mali and Niger, and came ahead of presidential and legislative elections on […]
At least 74 migrants died in a “devastating” shipwreck on Thursday off the Libyan coast, the United Nations said, the latest in a spate of migrant vessel sinkings in the central Mediterranean. This year has seen a resurgence of boats in the central Mediterranean, a well-trodden but often deadly route for those hoping to travel […]
Police on Tuesday reported that a radio commentator who survived a 2016 assassination attempt was shot dead in front of his house in the northern Philippines. According to a police report, Virgilio Maganes, 62, was about to enter his house in the town of Villasis when two suspects shot him six times. The police said […]
