Talks in Ethiopia to revive South Sudan’s failed 2015 peace pact and end the country’s civil war broke up on Wednesday without a deal, mediators said, potentially prolonging a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions.
The death toll from the cyclone that hit Somaliland has now reached over 50, according to government officials in the self-declared east African nation.
A suicide car bomber from Somalia’s Islamist group al Shabaab hit a military convoy outside Mogadishu on Tuesday, causing an unknown number of deaths, a police officer and the group’s spokesman told Reuters.
Over 400 public officials are to be questioned by Kenyan investigators over a reported $100 million theft case at the country’s National Youth Service (NYS).
Some 1,000 Ethiopian nationals kept in various detention centers in Saudi Arabia are to be released following an agreement between Ethiopia and the Gulf state.
