Kenya mulls ICC withdrawal
The spokesman for Kenya’s president says Kenya’s cabinet has yet to make a decision on whether the country should withdraw from the International Criminal Court....
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Internet shutdown could cost Ethiopia’s booming economy millions of dollars
The internet shutdown in Ethiopia will drain millions of dollars from the economy, besides undermining citizens’ rights to impart and seek information, observers of the...
Shabaab ‘takes Somali town’ after Ethiopia troop pullout
Fighters from the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group said Sunday they had retaken control of a town in central Somalia after hundreds of Ethiopian troops serving with...
Top critic Uganda says ‘undecided’ about leaving ICC
KAMPALA, Uganda – Uganda says it remains “undecided” about whether to leave the International Criminal Court after two African states this week decided to pull...
Somaliland’s main opposition party faces split in dispute over flagbearer’s deputy
Wadani, one of the leading opposition parties in the enclave failed to break a tense deadlock on who’d become its deputy flag-bearer By Jamal Ibrahim,...
Ethiopia Using Emergency Law to Quash Protest Movement
WASHINGTON — The state of emergency in effect in Ethiopia since October 8 is being used broadly to silence critical media voices and lock up suspected...
Kenya president says he isn’t shielding corruption suspects
The Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu) has urged President Uhuru Kenyatta to disband the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) for complacency in the fight...
Ethiopia ‘detains 1,600’ under state of emergency
A statement, quoted by state-affiliated FBC website, lists arrests in the Oromia and Amhara regions, which have recently seen massive demonstrations. This is in addition...
Somali minister underrates local education system as ‘substandard’
Following the outbreak of civil war in Somalia 1991, private education sectors have made a significant contribution to the rehabilitation and development of the education...
Nkurunziza signs law withdrawing Burundi’s ICC membership
Burundi president, Pierre Nkurunziza, has officially appended his signature to the decision of the country to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC). Burundi becomes the...
