The UN has warned that it has run out of food to provide for nine million Ethiopians who rely on its assistance.
A UN spokesman told the BBC the port of Djibouti was seriously congested and there was little prospect of supplies arriving for the next five months.
Following a border war, Eritrea denied Ethiopia [...]
Ex-UN boss Kofi Annan has told the BBC Kenya has until the end of August to set up a special tribunal to try the ringleaders of post-election clashes.
Mr Annan brokered a power-sharing deal last year to end the violence in which some 1,500 people were killed.
A commission of inquiry then said the court should begin [...]
Africa’s longest-serving ruler, Gabon’s President Omar Bongo Ondimba, has died. He was 73.
A charismatic figure surrounded by a personality cult, he led the oil-producing West African state for more than four decades.
Many in Gabon saw him as a guarantor of the former French colony’s stability.
But critics said his rule was based on violence and corruption, [...]
Armed men have killed a candidate in Guinea Bissau’s presidential elections, reports say.
Baciro Dabo’s security chief told the AFP news agency that men in uniform had burst into his house in the early hours and demanded to see the candidate.
The 28 June election was called after President Joao Bernardo Vieira was killed by soldiers in [...]
Ethiopia will only intervene in Somalia as part of the regional Igad grouping, Mr Yelibu Lijalem, the deputy head of mission at the Ethiopian Embassy in Nairobi, has said.
He said the threat posed by the advance by radical Islamist forces in Mogadishu was not particular to Ethiopia. “We will decide as a region, we will [...]
Jem rebels have attacked two army bases in Darfur in just over a week
Sudan’s army says it has taken control of a town near its border with Chad, recently seized by rebels.
Sudan says more than 60 people were killed during the fighting with the rebel Justice and Equality Movement around the town of [...]
(RTTNews) – The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday condemned the recent upsurge in fighting between the Somali interim government forces and the Islamist militants, and voted unanimously to extend the mandate of the AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia.
In a 15 to 0 vote, the UN Security Council extended the mandate of the AU peacekeeping [...]
Around 200 Somali pirates are reported to have renounced piracy at a meeting in northern Somalia.
Members of the group met local leaders and Somali expatriates in Eyl, in the autonomous region of Puntland, and promised to halt their activities.
Pirate representative Abshir Abdullah told the BBC he urged other groups to free ships in [...]
Malawi president wins re-election
Bingu wa Mutharika was declared winner by the electoral commission on Friday in a ballot widely viewed as a test for political stability in the southern African country.
He polled 2.7 million votes while John Tembo, his closest rival from the opposition Malawi Congress party (MCP), won 1.2 million votes.
Anastasia [...]
UK House of Lords Debates: Somaliland/Somalia
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UK, 24 May 2009 (Somalilandpress) – Lord Steel of Aikwood: My Lords, given the mayhem that has characterised Somalia for so long, is there not a case for reconsidering the whole question of recognising the Government in Somaliland, the former British protectorate, which at [...]