March 21, 2023
Kenya: Police Defend Response to Cost-of-Living Protests
Human rights advocates in Kenya are condemning what they call "barbaric acts" by police in their response to protests over the high cost of living. One university student was… Read more »
Ethiopia: Gov't Rejects U.S. Accusation of War Crimes as Inflammatory
Ethiopia's government has rejected a U.S. assertion that all sides in the two-year Tigray war committed war crimes, calling the statement "inflammatory." Read more »
March 20, 2023
Africa: U.S. State Department Unveils 2022 Annual Human Rights Report
Russia's armed forces have committed "numerous war crimes and other atrocities" since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, said a U.S. Department… Read more »
Somalia: 43,000 Died Due to Hunger During Somalia's 2022 Droughts
Droughts in Somalia may have killed an estimated 43,000 people last year, a new report by the Somali government and United Nations said. Read more »
March 19, 2023
Somalia: Leaders Agree to Increase Troop Numbers
Somalia's federal and regional leaders have agreed to increase the number of armed forces and police officers to meet security demands as African Union forces leave the country by… Read more »
Mozambique: Tanzania Sends Relief to Cyclone-Hit Mozambique
Tanzania has started to dispatch food aid and self-storage equipment to neighboring Mozambique to help thousands of people affected by tropical cyclone Freddy. More than 190 people… Read more »
March 18, 2023
Sudan: Sudanese Officials to Speed Up Forming Civilian Govt
Signers of the political deal in Sudan say a transitional civilian government is expected to be named in April. Both civilian and military officials agreed Wednesday to expedite… Read more »
March 17, 2023
Tanzania: Unidentified Illness Kills Five in Tanzania, Sparks Ebola Fears
Health officials in Tanzania are investigating an illness that killed five people in the country's northwest with Ebola-like symptoms, raising fears that it could be the deadly… Read more »
Rwanda: Western Donors Pressed to Sanction Rwanda As DRC Violence Escalates
Around 100,000 people in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have fled their homes following a string of recent attacks, and fighting between M23 rebels and government forces,… Read more »
March 15, 2023
Somalia: Somalia Executes Islamist Militant 'Doctor,' 'Soldiers'
A military court in Somalia has ordered the executions of three al-Shabab militants it said pretended to be a doctor and soldiers to carry out bombings and shootings. Read more »
Ethiopia: Blinken Highlights Importance of Tigray Peace Deal
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen on Wednesday as part of his one-day working visit to the… Read more »
Ethiopia: Blinken Urges Ethiopians to Follow Through On Peace Commitments, Accountability
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, as well as other government officials and civil society leaders, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,… Read more »
March 14, 2023
Somalia: Officials Warn Against Underestimating Al-Shabaab and IS
Somali officials are warning the federal and regional governments of Somalia not to underestimate the strength of militant groups al-Shabab and Islamic State as authorities plan… Read more »
South Sudan: Is South Sudan's Peace Deal Holding?
A surprise government shakeup by South Sudan's President Salva Kiir this month has raised new concerns about the country's stability. The opposition in Juba's transitional unity… Read more »
Somalia: Al-Shabab Bombing Targets Regional Officials
In Somalia multiple casualties have been reported following a suicide bombing in Bardhere in the southern Gedo region. Read more »
Ethiopia: Advocates Call On Blinken to Demand Accountability for Atrocities in Ethiopia
In his first stop on a two-country visit to Africa, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa. Read more »
March 10, 2023
Tanzania: Opposition Welcomes President's Pledge to Restore Competitive Politics
Tanzania's opposition has welcomed President Samia Suluhu Hassan's pledge to restore competitive politics and review the country's constitution. The longstanding demands from the… Read more »
March 01, 2023
Africa: Blinken Headed to Ethiopia, Niger
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Ethiopia next week to advance a fragile peace process, the State Department said Friday, on the highest-level US visit in recent… Read more »
March 09, 2023
Kenya: Kenya Rolls Out Vaccination Campaign Against Malaria
Kenya this week rolled out a campaign using the world's first vaccine against malaria to inoculate more than 400,000 children against the mosquito-borne disease. Health officials… Read more »
March 08, 2023
Somalia: Lower House Passes Historic Anti-Terrorism Law
The lower house of Somalia's Parliament on Wednesday approved a new anti-terrorism law that aims to provide a legal framework that will help government security agencies to better… Read more »
March 07, 2023
Ethiopia: Children in Tigray Return to School but Face Extended Trauma
The war in Tigray is over but the trauma lingers. Read more »
Somalia: Govt Forces 'Repulse' Al-Shabaab Attack, Official Says
Officials in Somalia say an al-Shabab attack on a military base in the south of the country has been "repulsed." Read more »
Ethiopia: UNHCR Seeks Support for Somalis Fleeing Las Anod Fighting Into Ethiopia
The United Nations Refugee Agency is calling for urgent support to help tens of thousands of Somalis who fled fighting in a disputed border town in Somalia's breakaway region of… Read more »
March 06, 2023
Somalia: Over 200 Killed in Fighting in Disputed Somaliland Town, Hospital Director Says
The director of a hospital in Las Anod, a disputed border town in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland, says about 200 people have been killed and hundreds more wounded in… Read more »
March 03, 2023
Ethiopia: Rights Groups Alarmed By Ethiopian Effort to Cut Short Tigray War Crimes Probe
A report this week said Ethiopia wants to terminate a U.N.-backed investigation into abuses committed during the two-year Tigray war. Read more »