The geopolitical temperature is rising in the Red Sea. Ethiopia is threatening Eritrea, its diminutive neighbour, making a claim on the Eritrean port of Assab. Ethiopian President Abiy Ahmed recently ...

Asmara, 26 January 2026 - Member of the PFDJ Central Committee and National Assembly, veteran freedom fighter Mr. Musa Husein Naib, passed away today, 26 January, at the age of 77 due to ...

Ethiopia suspends flights to Tigray amid reports of troop movements and drones, reviving fears of a return to war in the ...

Much of postcolonial Africa still fails to confront the political vision for which Patrice Lumumba was eliminated.

Somaliland is not internationally recognised as a sovereign state, though it declared independence from Somalia in 1991. A territory becomes a sovereign state when its independence is recognised by ...

After a tense general election in Uganda last week, presidential elections are set to follow in the Democratic Republic of ...

While 2026 is only one month in, airlines have already had to rework their networks to avoid conflicts that broke out in several regions of the world. Over the weekend of Jan. 23 to 25, European ...

The next Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament is set for mid-2027, but already there have been reassuring comments and ...

The UN’s outgoing High Commissioner for Refugees on the west’s retreat in Sudan, the folly of abandoning state-building and ‘necessary anger’ ...

My colleague Kelum Bandara’s interview on Tuesday in the Daily Mirror with Erik Solheim, the Norwegian peace envoy, stirred ...