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Apr
25
2024
By The African Mirror
Twenty-one dead, 23 missing after boat capsizes off Djibouti coast, UN agency official says

Twenty-one dead, 23 missing after boat capsizes off Djibouti coast, UN agency official says

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TWENTY-ONE migrants died and another 23 are missing after a boat carrying 77 people capsized off the coast of Djibouti, the second such incident in two weeks, the United Nations migration agency said. The boat's occupants included children, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a post on social media platform X. Tens of thousands of migrants from the Horn of Africa, especially from Ethiopia and Somalia, leave the continent through Djibouti, aiming to reach Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations to find work, according to IOM. Many fail, and thousands are stranded in Yemen where they live in…
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Jan
26
2024
By GIULIA PARAVICINI
How Ethiopia’s quarrel with Somalia could destabilise Horn of Africa

How Ethiopia’s quarrel with Somalia could destabilise Horn of Africa

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ETHIOPIA'S deal to lease a port in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland has infuriated the government in Mogadishu and prompted concern it will further destabilise the Horn of Africa region. Under a memorandum of understanding signed on January 1, landlocked Ethiopia would lease 20 km (12 miles) around Somaliland's port of Berbera for 50 years, in exchange for stakes in Ethiopian state-run companies and possible recognition as an independent nation. Somalia has responded by calling the deal an act of aggression and says it will block it. Ethiopia says it is merely striking a commercial arrangement to address a need for access to…
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Nov
27
2023
By The African Mirror
Death toll from flooding in Somalia climbs to nearly 100

Death toll from flooding in Somalia climbs to nearly 100

NEWS
THE number of people killed by floods from heavy rains in Somalia has climbed to 96, state news agency SONNA said. "Somalia's flood death toll climbs to 96," SONNA said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, adding the figure had been confirmed by Mahamuud Moallim, the head of the country's disaster management agency. Like the rest of East and Horn of Africa, Somalia has been battered by relentless heavy rains that began in October, caused by the El Nino and Indian Ocean Dipole weather phenomena. Both are climate patterns that impact ocean surface temperatures and cause above-average rainfall. The…
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May
29
2023
By The African Mirror
Somalia says it will revert to direct vote for officials starting next year

Somalia says it will revert to direct vote for officials starting next year

NEWS
SOMALIA will start electing its president and other officials by direct vote next year, the government announced, ending a system of indirect voting in the Horn of Africa country that has endured three decades of conflict and clan battles. Amid widespread insecurity caused by an Islamist insurgency and weak state structures, in recent years lawmakers voted for the president, while clan heads and elders elected lawmakers in both the federal government and regional states. The country had initially been scheduled to revert to universal suffrage in 2020 but protracted squabbles among politicians and persisting insecurity across the country forced the…
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May
26
2023
By The African Mirror
UN gets $2.4 bln in pledges for Horn of Africa aid efforts

UN gets $2.4 bln in pledges for Horn of Africa aid efforts

NEWS
THE United Nations received pledges of $2.4 billion to help fund aid operations for some 32 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, but the donations fall short of what the U.N. was seeking as it warned against a possible "catastrophe." The U.N. has appealed for more than $7 billion for the three countries, but prior to Wednesday's pledging conference Somalia was just 25% funded, Ethiopia 22% and Kenya just 21%. The United Nations describes the Horn of Africa as the epicentre of one of the world's worst climate emergencies. "People in the Horn of Africa are paying an unconscionable price for…
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Sep
10
2021
By The African Mirror
Somalia on edge as president, PM clash

Somalia on edge as president, PM clash

NEWS
ABDI SHEIKH SOMALIA’S two most powerful leaders were locked in a standoff after they named different men to head the intelligence service of the politically unstable nation in the Horn of Africa. The row between President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble, nominally over a murder investigation, marks an escalation of months of tension between them in a country riven by militant attacks and clan rivalries. On Monday, Roble suspended Fahad Yasin, director of the National Intelligence Service Agency, saying he had failed to deliver a report on the case of an agent who disappeared in June.…
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Apr
25
2021
By The African Mirror
U.S. names special envoy for Horn of Africa

U.S. names special envoy for Horn of Africa

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SIMON LEWIS and MICHELLE NICHOLS VETERAN U.S. diplomat Jeffrey Feltman was named a special envoy for the Horn of Africa on Friday, as Washington looks to step up diplomatic efforts in a region hit by the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray and other crises. Feltman also will lead international efforts to address tensions between Ethiopia and Sudan and around the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. Fighting in Tigray, between rebels and government forces from both Ethiopia and its neighbor Eritrea, has killed thousands of people and forced hundreds of thousands more from their…
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Nov
29
2020
By The African Mirror
Ethiopian military has taken ‘full control’ of Tigray capital, government says

Ethiopian military has taken ‘full control’ of Tigray capital, government says

NEWS
ETHIOPIAN troops have taken "full control" of the Tigray region's capital Mekelle, the government has claimed, a major development in a three-week-old war that is sending shockwaves through the Horn of Africa. "The federal government is now fully in control of the city of Mekelle," Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said in a statement posted on his Twitter page. He said police were searching for the leaders of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), who have been fighting federal forces in the northern region since November 4. "Federal police will now continue their task of apprehending TPLF criminals and bring them…
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Nov
17
2020
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia to push on Tigray’s capital as surrender deadline passes

Ethiopia to push on Tigray’s capital as surrender deadline passes

NEWS
GIULIA PARAVICINI ETHIOPIA's prime minister has warned that a deadline for rebel northern forces to lay down arms had expired, paving the way for a final push on the Tigray region's capital in a two-week conflict destabilising the Horn of Africa. "The three-day ultimatum given to Tigray Special Forces and the militia to surrender ... has ended today," Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Facebook. "The final critical act of law enforcement will be done in the coming days." Africa's youngest leader and the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Abiy launched air strikes and a ground offensive on Nov. 4…
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Nov
16
2020
By The African Mirror
Ethiopia seizes town in Tigray, says 10,000 prisoners missing

Ethiopia seizes town in Tigray, says 10,000 prisoners missing

NEWS
GIULIA PARAVICINI ETHIOPIAN forces have liberated a town in the northern Tigray region, the government's emergency task force has, accusing local leaders of taking 10,000 prisoners from the town as they fled. Tigray forces fired rockets into neighbouring Eritrea on Saturday, escalating a 13-day conflict which has killed hundreds on both sides and threatens to destabilise other parts of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. "As the TPLF (Tigray's ruling party) militia were defeated in Alamata, they fled taking along around 10,000 prisoners," the government's task force said on Twitter. With access restricted and most communications down in Tigray, Reuters…
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