Somalia Denies Reports Its Troops Fought in Tigray
MOGADISHU – Somalia’s Ministry of Information has denied reports that Somali troops were trained in Eritrea and fought in Ethiopia’s war in Tigray. The rejection came as parents of allegedly missing troops held another protest demanding to know their w…
Read MoreFoundation to Spend $1.3B to Vaccinate Africans for COVID
One of the world’s largest foundations will spend $1.3 billion over the next three years to acquire and deliver COVID-19 vaccines for more than 50 million people in Africa. It’s a first-of-its-kind effort for a Western nonprofit to bolster Africa’s lag…
Read MoreICC Prosecutor Calls on Sudan to Hand Over War Crimes Suspects
NEW YORK – The departing prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has called on Sudan’s government to transfer four men wanted for war crimes in Darfur to The Hague.”Sudan has to tangibly demonstrate that the new Sudan is now a fully fledged memb…
Read MoreSlow Vaccination Rate in Africa Could Have Major Consequences, Experts Warn
NAIROBI, KENYA – By any measure, the number of those being vaccinated against COVID-19 in Africa are running behind the rest of the world. Health experts warn that failure to inoculate the 1.3 billion people on the continent will have a huge impact on …
Read MoreCameroon Clerics Plea to Spare Clergy in Separatist Conflict
YAOUNDE, CAMEROON – Clergy in Cameroon have appealed to both sides in the country’s separatist conflict to stop abducting and harassing priests. Within the past two weeks, six Roman Catholic priests and missionaries were abducted, and a church attacked…
Read MoreSurvivors of Burkina Faso Massacre in Urgent Need of Aid
GENEVA – The U.N. refugee agency says survivors of the Saturday massacre in a Burkina Faso village are in desperate need of humanitarian aid. Unidentified gunmen attacked the village of Solhan in Burkina Faso’s northeast Sahel region on June 5. They r…
Read MoreChildren Shot, Bombed and Knifed in Tigray War
MEKELLE, EDAGA HAMUS, ETHIOPIA – Fifteen-year-old Beriha lost one eye in the war and was permanently blinded in the other. And like many of the children hospitalized in Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, she traveled for weeks to get her…
Read MorePossible First Use of AI-Armed Drones Triggers Alarm Bells
Western military experts are assessing whether an autonomous drone operated by artificial intelligence, or AI, killed people — in Libya last year — for the first time without a human controller directing it remotely to do so. A report by a United Natio…
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