Critics Skeptical that Prisoner Release Signals Change in Ethiopia
The Ethiopian government pardoned more than 700 prisoners in celebration of New Year’s Day on the Ethiopian calendar and the Muslim holiday Eid. Among those...
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EXCLUSIVE: Kenya used IGAD’s Mogadishu summit as leverage to lift Somali khat ban
By Jeff Mwaura,jeff@alleastafrica.com NAIROBI – One day before Somalia hosted its first regional summit of African heads of state in 30 years this week, Kenyan...
Three women who attacked police station killed in Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya – Three women have been killed after they attacked a police station in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa, a police official said...
No joy in Ethiopia region even as New Year fete approaches
ADDIS ABABA –As Ethiopians prepare to celebrate their New Year and the Muslim feast of Sacrifice, shops in the town of Burayu are shuttered and...
Somali PM faces sacking prospect amid rifts with president
by Judy Maina, judy.maina@alleastafrica.com NAIROBI – Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud may sack his prime minister Omar Abdirashid as rifts between the two leaders widened...
Kenya’s Meru governor goes into hiding over Khat ban threats
by Jeff Mwaura, jeff@alleastafrica.com NAIVASHA – Three days after Somalia suspended khat flights from Kenya, the governor of Kenya’s eastern province of Meru Peter Munya...
Sudan’s Bashir may cancel Mogadishu’s IGAD summit trip over arrest fears
by Ahmed Osman KHARTOUM – Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir may cancel his planned trip to the Somali capital where the upcoming summit for the Intergovernmental...
Trump: Africa needs to support me, I shall send food in return
By Jeff Mwaura, jeff@alleastafrica.com NAIROBI – Billionaire US businessman Donald Trump who is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party has urged African leaders to...
Phones Protect Uganda’s Sex Workers From Police Harassment
NAIROBI — When Fatia, 25, leaves her home to sell sex in the grungy hotels and hastily parked cars of the Ugandan capital, Kampala, she keeps...
Mugabe rants at African men: go beyond banging women
by Rutendo Nkosisbhekile, Rutendo.Nkosisbhekil@alleastafrica.com HARARE – Known for his usual rants on many aspects of Africa’s life and world leaders, Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe told African men...
