MR PATEL: Good afternoon, everybody. I am sorry for the slight delay. I have a couple things very quickly at the top, and then I’m happy to dive right in. So first, today, Under Secretary Bonnie Jenkins announced the members of the Secretary’s International Security Advisory Board, also known as the ISAB. You can find more […]
Continue ReadingEthiopia is prepared to welcome international tourists in the midst of new market opportunities brought about by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The country has a high commitment in maintaining the standards of safe travel protocols and procedures as it reopens its doors to tourism and international visitors. The country has received the World […]
Continue ReadingEthiopia says its soldiers have seized three towns in the northern Tigray region from forces it has been fighting in the 23-month civil war. It has promised to take “maximum care” to protect civilians from harm. The loss of the strategic city of Shire, with its airport and road links to the regional capital, comes […]
Continue ReadingThe war in Ukraine is helping one country achieve its foreign policy and national security objectives, but it’s neither Russia nor Ukraine. It’s Iran. That was starkly clear on the morning of Oct. 17, 2022, as Iranian-made drones attacked civilian targets in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. Russia used the Iranian drones to inflict damage on Ukraine’s national […]
Continue ReadingThe Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) urged the international community and the media on Wednesday to give the crisis in Ethiopia “the attention it deserves”. Highlighting that there is no other situation globally in which six million had been kept under siege for almost two years, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned that there is a […]
Continue ReadingLILONGWE, MALAWI — Malawi has discovered a mass grave in the north of the country containing the remains of 25 people suspected to be migrants from Ethiopia, police said Wednesday. “The grave was discovered late on Tuesday, but we cordoned it off and started exhuming today. So far, we have discovered 25 bodies,” police spokesman Peter […]
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