Category: Key Issues

Delayed elections are underway Thursday in four regions of Ethiopia.Voters in three regions will decide who wins dozens of parliamentary seats in the last round of voting before Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed forms a new government on Oct. 4.Voters in the f…

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate is set to vote Thursday on a stopgap funding measure to avert a partial federal government shutdown.Approval in the Senate would send the matter to the House of Representatives for a vote there as lawmakers work to beat a m…

N. Charleston, S.C. — Sept. 15, 2021 – Water Mission is a member of a consortium led by The Aquaya Institute that has been awarded a five-year, $18.9 million Cooperative Agreement from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for …

JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN – Following a 5½-year-civil war and as intercommunal clashes continue, fashion is not the first thing that usually springs to mind for many about South Sudan. But a small group of young fashion designers say they want to help change…

The U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power congratulated Hakinde Hichilema Tuesday on his election as Zambia’s next president.A statement released by the agency said Power and Hichilema discussed how the “vigilant oversi…

DAR ES SALAAM – When Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan took office in March, she  vowed a U-turn in politics from her predecessor, the late John Magufuli. But the arrest of opposition leader Freeman Mbowe in July has dimmed hopes that Hassan will…

HARARE – Women’s rights activists, opposition groups and the United Nations are pressuring Zimbabwean authorities to arrest a man who had married a 14-year-old who died last week while giving birth at a church shrine. Zimbabwean police say they are inv…

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The governments of Somalia and Kenya agreed to improve strained diplomatic ties following a meeting in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, between officials of both countries on Sunday.The Kenyan delegation led by Foreign Affairs Ministe…