CAIRO– Egyptian President, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, met yesterday with Bahraini King, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, where they discussed the latest developments of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), buil…
Day: September 17, 2021
TUNIS— Tunisia and Libya are to reopen their shared border on Friday, the presidency in Tunis said, two months after they were closed as the country’s coronavirus caseload soared.“The president of (Tunisia) issued orders to reopen border crossings with…
MOGADISHU— Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has suspended Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble’s power to hire and fire officials, the latest development in a destabilizing feud that has plunged the country into a fresh crisis.The dispute…
CAIRO— Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has pledged support for elections in Libya in talks with the North African country’s interim prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah.Sisi “stressed the importance of the upcoming Libyan elections in respecting a…
An executive order signed Friday by U.S. President Joe Biden seeks to slap harsh sanctions on all sides involved in the war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region — including the governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea.In the order, Biden said the region had…