Tag: East Africa
Southern African leaders meet in Mozambique on rebel threat
<p>JOHANNESBURG — Southern African leaders are meeting in Mozambique’s capital Maputo on Thursday to discuss ways to respond to the violence by Islamic extremist...
Analysis: Attack on Iran ship off Yemen escalates shadow war
<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An attack this week on an Iranian cargo ship that is said to serve as a floating base for...
Kenya court suspends gov’t move to close 2 refugee camps
<p>NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya's high court on Thursday suspended the government move to shut down two camps that hold hundreds of thousands of refugees...
‘Leave no Tigrayan’: In Ethiopia, an ethnicity is erased
HAMDAYET, Sudan — The atrocities have been seared into the skin and the minds of Tigrayans, who take shelter by the thousands within sight...
Rwanda recalls genocide as France seeks to reset relations
KIGALI, Rwanda — Rwanda is marking 27 years since its genocide with somber commemoration events Wednesday, as France reevaluates its role in the mass...
‘All options open’: Egypt warns Ethiopia amid dam deadlock
CAIRO — Egypt’s president warned Ethiopia on Wednesday that his government will not tolerate any moves by Addis Ababa that would reduce Egypt’s share...
‘Leave no Tigrayan’: In Ethiopia, an ethnicity is erased
<p>HAMDAYET, Sudan — The atrocities have been seared into the skin and the minds of Tigrayans, who take shelter by the thousands within sight...
Rwanda recalls genocide as France seeks to reset relations
<p>KIGALI, Rwanda — Rwanda is marking 27 years since its genocide with somber commemoration events Wednesday, as France reevaluates its role in the mass...
‘All options open’: Egypt warns Ethiopia amid dam deadlock
<p>CAIRO — Egypt’s president warned Ethiopia on Wednesday that his government will not tolerate any moves by Addis Ababa that would reduce Egypt’s share...
France to open archive for period covering Rwandan genocide
PARIS — France’s role before and during the 1994 Rwandan genocide was a “monumental failure” that the country must acknowledge, the lead author of...