[ad_1] Khartoum – The president of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdul-Fattah Al-Burhan, received a phone call from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday evening. In the phone call, Al-Burhan and Pompeo discussed bilateral relations between Sudan and the United States and ways to strengthen them, as …
Read More »East Africa: Concerns over the resurgence of desert locusts in the Horn of Africa, reports the United Nations Agency
[ad_1] The desert locust crisis, which hit the greater Horn of Africa region earlier this year, may escalate again as recent strong winds have carried small, ripe yellow swarms from southern Somalia to eastern and northern Kenya. eastern, said the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). . Although some …
Read More »Ethiopia expels Crisis Group senior analyst
[ad_1] On November 21, the Ethiopian government deported William Davison, senior analyst for Ethiopia at Crisis Group. No formal reason was immediately provided, but his expulsion is undoubtedly linked to the severe conflict in Tigray and the growing sensitivity to unofficial views. On November 20, immigration officials in Addis Ababa …
Read More »The world needs peace for health, says WHO director general – AllAfrica.com
[ad_1] The world needs peace for health, says the WHO director-generalAllAfrica.com . [ad_2] Source link
Read More »Kenya: Tanzania dethrones the United States as Kenya’s main tourism market
[ad_1] Tanzania overtook the United States as Kenya’s main tourist source market in September, buoyed by its minor Covid-19 blocking measures, new data show. Rising cases of the virus hindered arrivals from the world’s largest economy after many countries, including Kenya, classified US travelers as high-risk Covid-19. This has forced …
Read More »The performance of African governance declines for the first time in a decade, finds the Ibrahim 2020 index of African governance
[ad_1] The 2020 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), launched today by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, highlights for the first time since 2010 a decline in African governance performance. The first decline in governance performance since 2010 The 2019 African average global governance score falls -0.2 points below that of …
Read More »Africa: a Biden presidency: this is what it means for Kenya and Africa
[ad_1] US President-elect Joe Biden has already offered to reverse some of the controversial decisions, on the global stage, made by the incumbent Donald Trump. In his acceptance speech on Saturday night, Biden, who became the first presidential candidate in the United States to garner 74 million popular votes, said …
Read More »East Africa: What the US election result means for East Africa
[ad_1] As The EastAfrican went to print Friday night, the sun was setting on US President Donald Trump’s hopes of a second term in the Oval Office, as officials across the Great Lakes began to take stock of what a change. guard duty in Washington DC means for the region. …
Read More »Kenya: high stakes for Kenya as “Uncle Sam” decides
[ad_1] Which political party benefits Kenya the most when it is in power in the United States? As the Americans headed to the polls last night, Nairobi, some 10,000km away, was very interested in the outcome as it would either continue or alter relations between the two countries. Donald Trump, …
Read More »Ethiopia: increasing violence in the Tigray region of Ethiopia
[ad_1] The United States is deeply concerned about reports that the Tigray People’s Liberation Front carried out attacks on the bases of the Ethiopian National Defense Force in the Tigray region of Ethiopia on 3 November. We are saddened by the tragic loss of life and urge immediate action to …
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