Horn of Africa

US authorities have issued a notice, warning US companies and individuals to do business with Sudanese state-owned and military-controlled companies. According to the State Department, there was a reputational risk of doing business with these companies amid a deterioration in the human rights situation in Sudan. It said while some …

Authorities in Sudan have ordered a morgue in the capital, Khartoum, to shut down because bodies there are starting to decompose in the heat because of frequent power cuts. The facility is said to hold nearly 1,000 unidentified corpses. A health ministry official, Hisham Zain al-Abidin, said the morgue was …

World leaders sent congratulatory messages to Somalia’s new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud for his win in Sunday’s election. Mr Mohamud, who served as Somalia’s president between 2012 and 2017, won after a third round of voting by Somalia’s 328 MPs. He was sworn in soon after. The outgoing president, Mohamed …

Lawmakers in Somalia elected former president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as the new head of state in presidential elections on Sunday. Mr Mohamud defeated current president, Mohamed Abudallahi Farmajo, in office since 2017. The ballot was limited to Somalia’s 328 MPs due to security concerns over holding a wider election, and …

The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (Atmis) imposed a curfew on the Afisyoni air force hangar in the capital, Mogadishu, and the surrounding areas ahead of the presidential election due to take place on Sunday, the BBC reported. The curfew runs from Tuesday to Monday next week. More than …

Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has announced his candidacy for a second term in presidential elections scheduled for May 15. On Twitter, President Farmajo said he was seeking a second term in “response to the call of the Somali people” and to continue “on the path of progress and development”. …

At least 10 Burundian soldiers were killed and 25 others injured after Islamist al-Shabab militants attacked their base in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region, the army said. An army spokesperson said five other soldiers were missing. “Twenty terrorists of al-Shabab group were also killed during the attack,” the army statement said. …

At least 600,000 children in Ethiopia are out of school, the result of a severe drought that is forcing many families to move to other parts of the country. According to Gianfranco Rotigliano, the UNICEF representative in the country, these children no longer go to school because teachers have also …

Turkey strongly condemned on Tuesday the terrorist attack against the military base of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) in the center of the country, where Burunian soldiers house. In a statement, the Turkish Foreign Ministry condemned the attack by Al-Shabab militants on the AU base. “We strongly …

African Union chairperson Moussa Faki has condemned an attack on the institution’s military base in central Somalia where Burundian soldiers house. Al-Shabab militants are accused of carrying out the attack in which 170 soldiers reportedly died. But the AU has not yet released the number of casualties in the attack …