Strategic Thinking on East Africa

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle January10, 2016 (ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopia says it has finalized preparations to make a new bid to secure a non-permanent seat in the UN Security Council, government officials said on Sunday. A UN Security Council session in New York (Photo courtesy of the UN) According to officials at the ministry of foreign […]

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Map of Eritrea Salem Solomon WASHINGTON—It has been three years since the United Nations began investigating alleged human rights abuses in Eritrea. Earlier this year, the Commission of Inquiry presented its first report to the the U.N. Human Rights Council, describing arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial killings, disappearances and imprisonment without charge inside the East African country. […]

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From The Sudan Tribune November 5, 2015 (JUBA)- South Sudanese government welcomed on Thursday reports that the former vice-president Riek Machar will return to the national capital, Juba next week. South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar smiles during a news conference in Khartoum, on September 18, 2015 (ST Photo) Machar left Juba in December 2013 […]

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Normalizing Relations Between Eritrea and the United States: Farsightedness or Foolishness? By Guest Editor “Bringing in Eritrea from the Cold” Almost one year ago, Ambassador Herman Cohen, former US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, wrote an article advocating “bringing Eritrea in from the cold.”[1] What does that mean? It means, according to Ambassador […]

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From the Sudan Tribune By Tesfa-Alem Tekle October 25, 2015 (ADDIS ABABA) – The Eritrean government has urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to take measures against neighboring Ethiopia over territories the latter illegally occupies. Eritrea, which borders Sudan and Ethiopia, has been dubbed the North Korea of Africa (HRW) Eritrea’s foreign affairs ministry, […]

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  The UN’s Security Council is set to extend the mandate of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea (SEMG) for a year and will not lift the sanctions on Eritrea for at least another year, according to draft resolution that has been circulated. SEMG Report Summarized In a 93-page SEMG report that the Sanctions […]

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From Arab News THE ASSOCIATED PRESS   UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council is urging the use of unarmed drones in the peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, but the government there says that could cause “disagreement and hostility” as a peace deal tries to take hold. The council on Friday adopted a US-drafted resolution requesting […]

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From The Sudan Tribune September 2, 2015 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan’s foreign minister Ibrahim Ghandour has criticized the United Nations saying the international organization fell under the domination of some powerful countries. Sudan’s foreign minister Ibrahim Ghandour, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventieth session on 2 October 2015 (Photo UN/Cia Pak) He told […]

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from Red pepper.com (Uganda) By Our Reporter - South Sudan’s president and a rebel leader accused each other on Tuesday of violating a ceasefire brokered to end a 21-month conflict in the world’s newest state as United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon appealed to them “not to betray and disappoint us.” Mr Kiir (R) is a member of […]

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The President of South Sudan Salva Kiir addresses the nation from State House on September 15, 2015, in Juba. South Sudan’s army has said it is preparing bases outside the capital ahead of a pull out from Juba as part of a peace deal to end the 21-month civil war. PHOTO | CHARLES ATIKI LOMODONG […]

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