Ethiopia

Guterres embraces the authoritarians

By attending a three-day summit in Russia and lending credence to Putin’s despotism, the U.N. secretary-general is effectively spitting in the faces of both Ukraine and Israel.

Iran Is Using Lebanon’s Airport to Fund Terrorism; The World Must Respond

The Lebanese government has a choice to make — reclaim effective control of its main international airport from Hezbollah, or see that air hub destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces. As government ministers...

Atoning for Britain’s colonialist past

By encouraging China’s colonialist present

Egypt Delivers Second Weapons Shipment to Somalia This Month

Egypt delivered its second weapons shipment to Somalia in less than a month on September 23, signaling a potential escalation in the Horn of Africa. According to Reuters, the shipment,...

Iranian Minister Urges Anti-Western BRICS Bloc to Create ‘Security Structure’

The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Akbar Ahmadian, called for the BRICS bloc of states (named after original founders Brazil, Russia, India, China,...

Egypt and Ethiopia Tussle at UN Security Council as Nile Dam Tensions Escalate

As tensions escalate between Egypt and Ethiopia over the latest filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Ethiopian Foreign Minister Taye Atske-Selassie urged UN officials to “take note of Egypt’s repeated threat to use force against Ethiopia” in a letter to the UN Security Council (UNSC) dated September 6 ...

Erdogan Calls on Muslim Nations to Isolate Israel

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on September 7 called for the formation of an Islamic alliance to halt what he called “the growing threat of expansionism” from the Jewish state. Falsely claiming...

Risking New Rift With Western Allies, Turkey Pursues Membership of BRICS Bloc

A spokesman for Turkey’s ruling Islamist AKP Party said on September 3 that there had been no “concrete development” in its application to join the BRICS alliance of emerging...

Egypt Deploys Troops, Weapons in Somalia, Raising Tensions in the Horn of Africa

Egypt is reportedly sending 10,000 troops to Somalia, in a move that signals a potential major escalation in the Horn of Africa. On August 29, two Egyptian military planes carrying...

Iran is Creeping into the International Arms Market

Almost overnight, Iran has positioned itself as a weapons exporter to rogue regimes around the world.

Shabaab hits Djibouti military base with suicide bombing in central Somalia

Yesterday, Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, took responsibility for a suicide car bombing targeting Djiboutian and Somali troops at a military base in central Somalia. The blast was the 14th...

The ideological cocktail poisoning American campuses

Woke warriors add neo-Nazism to the neo-Marxist/Islamist mix

Tightening the Belt or End of the Road? China’s BRI at 10

Why pro-Iran media is worried about Israel and Gaza’s Philadelphi Corridor

Currently, Hamas controls the area along the Egyptian border, and this remains one of the last Hamas strongholds in Gaza.

After Israel-Hamas war, Egyptian Copts face ambiguous future

For almost a decade, Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi has wanted to curb religious extremism and enhance the status of Christians in his country. In the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7th attacks...

Iran, Arabic media focus on ceasefire talks

At BRICS summit, leaders of Arab countries, along with Brazil, China, Russia, India, and South Africa discuss ceasefire.

Shabaab claims several al-Qaeda leaders present during infamous ‘Black Hawk Down’ incident

In a newly released video – touted as a documentary by Shabaab – the Somali jihadi group claimed that as many as 10 al-Qaeda leaders and figures were present during the infamous ‘Black Hawk Down’...

Cash, corruption, crumbling dams — that’s China’s Belt and Road Initiative, 10 years in

As the celebrations for the BRI’s 10th anniversary kick off, attending countries would do well to ask whether their citizens have anything to gain from 'win-win' cooperation with China, Elaine Dezenski writes.

Somalia suffers worst month on record for suicide bombings

In September 2023, Somalia suffered the most suicide bombings (and attempts) in a single month since Shabaab began utilizing the tactic in 2006. At least 14 attempted and successful suicide bombings were...

The price of American leadership

It’s high, but the value is higher