By Tesfa-Alem Tekle Addis Ababa — An Ethiopian court last week handed down prison terms to three British citizens convicted on terrorism-related…
Ethiopian forces have captured the central Somali town of Beledweyne from al-Shabab Islamist militants. Al-Shabab said its forces were surrounding the town…
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U.S. Flying Spy Drones From Arba Minch airport into Somalia
U.S. officials have acknowledged they are sending drone aircraft from Ethiopia to conduct surveillance in Somalia, but say it has nothing to…
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U.S. assembling secret drone bases in Ethiopia and Djibouti
The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian…
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The Looming Danger That Africa & International Community Needs to Confront Wisely
Article by Omer Hussein Dualeh The situation in the Horn of Africa is basically of that of famine and unprecedented drought affecting…
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Money raised from Eritrean-Americans helped finance militants in East Africa : UN
Matt O’Brien OAKLAND — Armed rebels in the famine-ravaged Horn of Africa are being partially bankrolled by money from immigrants in the…
Petrotrans Co., a Chinese oil exploration company, may face attack in Ethiopia’s restive Ogaden region if it begins operations in the area,…
Three events in quick succession have forced Eritrea to go on the defensive with its envoy in Nairobi declaring , “we have…
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The bad boy of the Horn of Africa: How Eritrea’s strongman uses Kenya as a terror finance hub
In early July, as Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki headed to Addis Ababa to chair a meeting of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development…
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Eritrea planned massive bomb attack on African Union summit, UN says
‘Baghdad-style’ car bomb attack planned in Addis Ababa, capital of neighbour and foe Ethiopia, which hosted 30 heads of state in January…