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ADDIS ABABA- The local rulers of Ethiopia’s rebellious Tigray region said on Wednesday they would never surrender to federal troops and would soon defeat their two-week offensive. Ethiopia pushes for Tigray capital, denies’ ethnic bias’. LILONGWE- Malawi police arrested pastor and businessman Shepard Bushiri on Wednesday after he skipped bail in South…
Tigrayan peacekeepers in Somalia disarmed by Ethiopian colleagues, sources say
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Ethiopian peacekeepers in Somalia have disarmed between 200 and 300 of their ethnic Tigrayan colleagues over the past week as conflict rages in the northern Ethiopian region, four security and diplomatic sources told Reuters.
Tigray rulers say Ethiopian troops facing ‘hell’
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The local rulers of Ethiopia’s rebellious Tigray region said on Wednesday they would never surrender to federal troops and would soon defeat their two-week offensive.
Ethiopia pushes for Tigray capital, denies ‘ethnic bias’
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopian forces pushed towards the capital of the rebel Tigray region on Wednesday, ignoring international appeals for talks to end the conflict and denying it was targeting any ethnic group.
Congo declares end of Ebola outbreak that killed 55
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s health minister on Wednesday announced the end of an Ebola outbreak in the west of the country that infected 130 people and killed 55.
Malawi police arrest pastor wanted in South Africa for fraud, money-laundering
LILONGWE (Reuters) – Malawi police arrested pastor and businessman Shepard Bushiri on Wednesday after he skipped bail in South Africa and fled to his home country, law enforcement agents said.
Morocco PM says Western Sahara wall at centre of dispute completed
RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco has finished building a sand barrier in a U.N.-monitored buffer zone in Western Sahara, Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Otmani told Reuters on Tuesday, after the Polisario Front independence movement withdrew from a ceasefire.
‘Brothers’ at war: battle for Ethiopia state capital looms
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s prime minister warned on Tuesday that a deadline for rebel northern forces to lay down arms had expired, paving the way for an advance on the Tigray region’s capital in a two-week conflict shaking the Horn of Africa.
Full-scale humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ethiopia – UN refugee agency
A “full-scale humanitarian crisis” is unfolding in Ethiopia, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday, with more than 27,000 now having fled heavy fighting to Sudan.
Army patrol discovers 29 bodies in eastern Congo
GOMA, Congo (Reuters) – A military patrol has discovered 29 bodies in a region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where civilians are facing a sharp rise in attacks by Islamist militants, local authorities said on Tuesday.
At least six dead after suicide bomber attacks restaurant in Somali capital
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Six people died on Tuesday in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant near a police academy, a police spokesman and a witness said.