Viewpoint by Daniel Haile* COLLEGE STATION, Texas | USA (IDN) — The Ethiopian government claims the conflict in Tigray is a law enforcement operation, but that is incorrect; it is a war involving the Ethiopian government, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), and the malign foreign influence of the Eritrean regime. The Eritrean regime in […]
Stop Treating Nigeria’s Southeast as Hostile Territory
Viewpoint by Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA (IDN) — Nigeria has been struggling with insecurity for over a decade. Against reasonable expectations six years ago when President Muhammadu Buhari was voted in, things have worsened.
A Zimbabwean Freelancer Being Held in The Overcrowded Bulawayo Central Prison
By CPJ NEW YORK (IDN | CPJ) — Zimbabwe authorities should not contest journalist Jeffrey Moyo’s appeal of a recent ruling denying him bail and should drop the criminal case against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on June 2. On May 31, a court in the city of Bulawayo denied Moyo’s bail […]
Ex-US Diplomat Reviews Africa’s Ties with China and Russia
Interview by Kester Kenn Klomegah* MOSCOW (IDN) — In this exclusive interview, Professor David Shinn, a former top U.S. diplomat and now an Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs discusses a few significant points in his forthcoming book on China-Africa.
Macron Admits Responsibility for Rwanda Genocide—Mali Has an Interim President—Lesotho Factory Workers Clash with Police
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — French President Emmanuel Macron in a meeting with Rwandan President Paul Kagame acknowledged that France bears partial responsibility for the Rwandan genocide, a historic confession that could mark a watershed moment in the fragile relations between the two countries.
Call for Referring Conflict-related Sexual Violence to International Criminal Court
By Reinhard Jacobsen BRUSSELS (IDN) — The scale and brutality of crimes of conflict-related sexual violence against women committed in Tigray have drawn widespread condemnation from around the world. It was no surprise that the Europe External Programme with Africa (EEPA) focussed on that theme in the Webinar organised on May 25. EEPA is a […]
Volcano Forces the Congolese to Flee—Anti-Jihadist Military Brass Die in A Plane Crash—Filmmaker Ladebo Passes Away
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — While thousands in Congo flee to Rwanda because of an erupting volcano, anti-jihadist military brass have died in a Nigerian plane crash, and Ladi Ladebo, early film collaborator with Ossie Davis, has passed away. An erupting mountain of fiery red flames from one of the […]
A Situation Report on the Horn of Africa
Europe External Programme with Africa (EEPA) is a Belgium-based Centre of Expertise with in-depth knowledge, publications, and networks, specialised in issues of peacebuilding, refugee protection, and resilience in the Horn of Africa. Go to https://www.eepa.be/?page_id=4237 for weekly for all situation reports. BRUSSELS (IDN) — Doctors told CNN that Ethiopian soldiers armed with machine guns, sniper […]
Khoi Leaders Consider Amazon’s Planned HQ in South Africa as Desecration of ‘Ancestral Land’
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Controversy is dogging the latest project of the world’s largest online retailer, Amazon, as it prepares to set up its African headquarters in Cape Town, South Africa. Amazon would be the anchor tenant of the River Club—a nine-story business and residential complex with a hotel, […]
Youth Social Media Campaign Pushes Ghana Govt. to Reform
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — A silent generation of young Ghanaians seems to have found its voice. Joshua Boye-Doe, among the nation’s active social media users, put it this way: “This is the right time for us to come together as one people to speak and let [government] know that […]