United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterez recently called on all armed groups across the world to stop their fighting and concentrate on the urgent task of fighting the corona virus pandemic. The... Read more »
All eyes are now focused on the global corona virus threat and the other threats to the livelihood of tens of millions of people in the Horn region seems to be overlooked.... Read more »
National People’s Congress votes 2,878 to 1 in favour of decision to impose national security legislation on Hong Kong. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang cast their votes on the... Read more »
Flooding and Covid-19 restrictions create perfect conditions for locusts to multiply. Oxfam warned today that millions of people in East and Central Africa, already suffering due to flooding and the impact of... Read more »
GENEVA – The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR warns hundreds of thousands of urban refugees across the East, Horn and Great Lakes region of Africa are resorting to desperate measures to survive as... Read more »
KANERE is on a mission to raise awareness about pandemic in Kakuma, one of world’s largest camps for displaced people. For more than a decade, KANERE, the world’s first fully independent refugee... Read more »
The Middle East Monitor, an online news portal this week wrote that Ethiopia escalates what it called the Renaissance Dam crisis with decision not to notify Sudan and Egypt about start of... Read more »
The recent evolution of the corona virus pandemic in Ethiopia makes at least two things very clear. The first is the fact that the virus is fast spreading in many communities and... Read more »
This week, Eritrean president Issayas Afewerki paid a short visit to Ethiopia where he conferred with top government officials including president Sahlework Zewde and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The bilateral talks came... Read more »
According to the latest data on the battle against the corona virus on the economic front, the projected growth scenarios in the Horn of Africa in particular are not totally disheartening. While... Read more »