June 12, 2021
CAIRO On June 4, Egypt’s Al-Azhar stepped into the controversy of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. During a speech, to mark the United Nations’ celebration of the World Environment Day, Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb said that monopolizing natural resources, including water, is tantamount to stealing a God-bestowed right, and that water is common and collective property that no one has the right to undermine.
Tayeb castigated Ethiopian policy, saying that those who deny water “are unjust aggressors who ought to be internationally and regionally stopped to protect the people’s rights and against their perversion and corruption of the earth.”
U.N. aid agencies called Thursday for a humanitarian cease-fire in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region, warning that 350,000 people are already in famine conditions there and 2 million more are just a step away. “We cannot let Ethiopia starve. We have to act now,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said at a meeting…
Promoting Peace in the Horn of Africa
June 09, 2021
U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman, left, meets with Sudanese Foreign Minister Maryam al-Sadiq al-Mahdi in Khartoum, Sudan, May 7, 2021.
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The United States is committed to addressing regional crises and to supporting a prosperous and stable Horn of Africa in which its citizens have a voice in their governments.
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Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman has just completed his first visit to Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan, and Ethiopia. His message was that the United States is committed to addressing regional crises and to supporting a prosperous and stable Horn of Africa in which its citizens have a voice in their governments.
President Yoweri Museveni who won the January 14th Poll has finally announced his cabinet team with which he will steer through the next five years of his seventh term in office since capturing power in 1986. “I hereby inform the country that By virtue of the Authority given to the President of Uganda. I hereby […]