Qatar and Ethiopia have agreed to restore diplomatic ties and open embassies in each others’ capitals: Doha and Addis Ababa.
This came at the end of a meeting which HE the Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani had on February 23, 2012 with the Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Meles Zenawi on the sidelines of the London conference on Somalia.
During the meeting, they reviewed bilateral relations and means to promote [...]
By MIKE CORDER | AP
Mar 2, 2012
THE HAGUE, Netherlands: The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant Thursday for Sudan’s defense minister, the third senior regime official sought by the court for alleged involvement in atrocities in Darfur.
The court announced it wants Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein arrested on a warrant containing seven counts of crimes against humanity and six war crimes including murder, persecution, rape and torture. The charges cover 41 different incidents, the court said.
Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked judges for [...]
Construction has begun on a $23bn (£14.5bn) port project and oil refinery in south-eastern Kenya’s coastal Lamu region near war-torn Somalia’s border.
An oil pipeline, railway and motorway will also be built linking Lamu to South Sudan and Ethiopia.
Newly independent South Sudan plans to use Lamu as its main oil export outlet.
A BBC reporter says security concerns for the project may explain the presence of Ethiopian and Kenyan troops in Somalia aiming to pacify the region.
‘Biggest African project’
Kenya’s leader Mwai [...]
Mon Oct 31, 2011
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Hundreds of students staged an anti-government rally in eastern Sudan on Sunday, protesting against poverty and rising food prices, witnesses said.
Protests are rare in the African country but anger has been building up over a severe economic crisis with spiraling food prices. Several small anti-government protests took place in the capital Khartoum in the past few weeks.
Hundreds of students took to the streets in the eastern city of Kassala late on Sunday, several witnesses [...]
Farajat
Last Saturday, Djibouti received two of its war prisoners who were hold captives by Eritrea during the last war between the two countries (Eritrea and Djibouti). The two escaped captives arrived to Djibouti boarding an Ethiopian airlines flight coming from the Sudanese capital Khartoum. Sources from Djiboutian media outlets indicated that the two prisoners escaped from prison in Eritrea and fled to the Sudan.
The two escapees, Sergeant Ahmed Aaliyaa Yaba and Sergeant Khidir Simbel Ali on their arrival to the [...]
By ARGAW ASHINE
in Addis Ababa Friday, July 15 2011
Ethiopian peacekeepers mandated by UN Security Council have started deploying in Sudan’s contested Abyei region.
Both North and South Sudan are claiming ownership of the oil rich region.
Some 4,200 blue helmet troops departed from western Ethiopia Thursday, with some arriving in Abeyi Friday, ready to execute their mandate.
According to Ethiopian Defence office, the troops have full logistics support in place.
Ethiopian army chief General Samora Yenus told to the peacekeepers during the farewell ceremony held in [...]
(Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice called on Monday for swift implementation of an agreement between north and south Sudan to demilitarize the disputed Abyei region.
In remarks to the U.N. Security Council, she also called for the immediate deployment of Ethiopian troops to the Abyei region, which is rumored to have significant oil reserves and straddles north and south Sudan.
Rice added that the United States would begin drafting a U.N. Security Council resolution that would authorize [...]
ADDIS ABABA: North and south Sudan have agreed in principle to demilitarise the Abyei region and to deploy Ethiopian peacekeeping troops in the area, an African Union official said on Monday.
South Sudan is scheduled to become an independent country on July 9, but the status of Abyei — a fertile, oil-producing area claimed by both sides — and other unresolved questions have complicated the secession. Khartoum seized Abyei with tanks and troops on May 21, causing tens of thousands of [...]
By Abdi Sheikh
MOGADISHU | Sat Jun 11, 2011 5:23pm EDT
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali police said on Saturday that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Africa’s most wanted al Qaeda operative, was killed in the capital of the Horn of Africa country Tuesday.
Mohammed was reputed to run al Qaeda in east Africa, operated in Somalia and evaded capture for over a decade after being accused of playing a lead role in the 1998 U.S. embassy attacks in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, which killed [...]
Sunday, June 12
By: Mona Al Bashir
Khartoum – The President Omar Al Bashir and the First Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit hold a high level meeting today Sunday in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to discuss pending issues and the crisis in Abyei and South Kordofan.
A learned source told Sudan Vision that US Secretary of Department Hilary Clinton is expected to join later.
The meeting is expected to debate the deployment of African troops under UN umbrella in lieu of the United Nations [...]
