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Bolton Builds Anti-China Campaign at the U.N.

FP 3 April 2019 The U.S. national security advisor, who has largely ignored the United Nations, is suddenly concerned that Beijing has too much influence...

Over 8 million Ethiopians need food aid due to violence, drought -government

REUTERS 7  March 2019 by AARON MAASHO ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – More than eight million people need food aid in Ethiopia, a 5 percent rise from last...

‘Open, cordial, and frank discussions’ held over future Somalia-UN relationship

UN NEWS 30 January 2019 UN Photo/Omar Abdisalan Rosemary DiCarlo, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, meets...

U.S. Developing Supply Route Along Dangerous Stretch From Djibouti to Somalia

FP NEWS 26 January 2019 by AMANDA SPERBER U.S. Army Brig. Gen. William Zana, left, greets then-U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at Camp Lemonnier,...

Kenya asks UN to finance Somalia war against Shabaab

DAILY NATION 25 January 2019 by AGGREY MUTAMBO Foreign Affairs Chief Administrative Secretary Ababu Namwamba confers with EU High Representative for Foreign...

Additional overseas PLA bases ‘possible’

ECNS.CN 10 January 2019 China will consider setting up new overseas support bases for its military if there are such needs, a senior People’s Liberation Army strategist said on Wednesday. Lieutenant General He Lei, former vice-president of the PLA Academy of Military Science, said at a Beijing news conference hosted by the State Council Information Office that whether...

UN Security Council set to lift Eritrea sanctions on Wednesday

CHANNEL NEWSASIA 13 November 2018 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council is set to vote on Wednesday to lift a nearly decade-old arms embargo and targeted sanctions on Eritrea, diplomats said, after the country’s rapprochement with Ethiopia and thawing of relations with Djibouti. Diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the 15-member council...

Where nobody speaks out, murder becomes the norm

THE DAILY MAVERICK 6 November 2018 by  GEOFF HILL Members of the Turkish Human Rights Association hold pictures of missing Saudi Arabian journalist...

Eritrea nears trade boost with UN sanctions lifting, regional devts

AFRICA NEWS 7 November 2018 by ABDUR RAHMAN ALFA SHABAN Eritrean ports will be major beneficiaries of proposed United Nations lifting of sanctions on the country and recent regional developments. This is the view of a former United States Assistant Secretary of State, Herman Cohen. According to Cohen, the trade potentials of the port of Massawa, which faces the Middle...

Risk of war on shipping lanes in Africa, Pacific

CAJNEWS AFRICA 11 October 2018 by SAID ABOUBAKER China / US cold war increasingly turning sour each day. Cartoon by CAJ News DJIBOUTI, (CAJ News) –...