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Ethiopia’s parliament voted to dissolve the government of the northern Tigray region on Saturday as the dispute escalates. It comes a day after the army launched airstrikes to destroy military assets in the region. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Friday that airstrikes had already neutralised “rockets that can hit a range of 300 kilometres from where they are stationed… Read More

US presidential hopeful Joe Biden appeared confident he would win the race to become the 46th president of the United States. It appears Democrat Joe Biden is close to winning as vote counting continues. In his speech on Friday, Biden indicated he was ready to take the top job. “He began the speech, ‘my fellow Americans’, and that was not… Read More

France is on the verge of cutting back its military presence in the volatile Sahel region to make room for reinforcements from other European countries, army sources said. French troops first deployed to Mali in 2013 after a jihadist insurgency broke out in the country a year earlier. Despite their presence, jihadist violence has spread to neighbouring Burkina Faso and… Read More

Three opposition leaders in the Ivory Coast are under investigation for insurrection, murder and acts of terrorism after they rejected President Alassane Ouattara’s re-election for a contested third term and vowed to set up a rival government. Ouattara, 78, won by a landslide in Saturday’s election, pitching the West African country into a political crisis with opponents who he say… Read More

Since the economic fallout of COVID, sub-Saharan Africa got pushed into its first recession in 25 years. While stimulus packages are being shaped to help the region build back stronger, Energy challenges are one of the common features of current disruptions in in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. A new report from the Rocky Mountain Institute called the “Africa… Read More

Despite the global coronavirus pandemic, the 4thedition of the El Gouna Film Festival went ahead this October, along Egypt’s Red Sea’s coast. Following COVID-19 protocols, such as regular temperature checks and limited seat capacity for screenings, the festival spanned nine days. One of the festival’s founders, Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris, told Euronews’ Daleen Hassan that hosting the event this year… Read More

Libyan politicians from rival administrations met for the latest round of peace talks in Morocco on Thursday. The lawmakers met in the coastal town of Bouznika, south of Morocco’s capital Rabat, for talks that come ahead of a major meeting in Tunisia slated for November 9. The talks follow a “permanent” UN-backed ceasefire agreement signed in Switzerland last month, intended… Read More

Gathara Delivers Political Satire Patrick Gathara, a renowned Kenyan strategic communications consultant and award-winning political cartoonist based in Nairobi, has been weighing on the US presidential election by way of some thought-provoking illustrations. Gathara explains his artistic intentions, “As a political cartoonist, you want people to find your drawings funny. But it is not just funny ‘haha’ it is satire… Read More

Guinea’s main oppositon party published Friday a list of 46 people, aged between 3 and 70 years, killed during the repression of demonstrations after the October 18 election, officially won by the incumbent Alpha Condé. Condé was declared re-elected on October 24 by the Electoral Commission for a controversial third term with 59.5% of the vote, but three of his… Read More

A Full-Blown Air Attack The “first round of operations” against the forces of the state of Tigray in the well-armed northern region has been carried out in the form of airstrikes — as announced by Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed on Friday evening. Abiy also asserted that the offensive in multiple locations in the capital, Mekele “completely destroyed rockets and… Read More