HIV patients in Kenya now live in fear as Trump aid freeze strands drugs in warehouse
The 90-day foreign aid freeze, ordered by US President Donald Trump after taking office on January 20, has upended the global supply chain for medical products to fight HIV and other diseases. It is also blocking the distribution of drugs that long ago reached their destination countries.
Kenya’s envoy to UNEP heaps praise on East African nation’s most dominant Mulembe culture
Others present were the County Executive Committee Member (CECM) for Sports, Culture, Gender and Social Services Josephine Achieng, Chief Officers Everlyn Kakai (Economic Planning) Gladys Kamuren (Gender and Social Services), Alice Abuki (External Resource Mobilisation), Kivumbini Member of County Assembly Neto Sakwa and his Olkaria counterpart Peter Palanga.
AU, EU scramble to end the war in Congo as fears rise it could suck in the wider Great Lakes Region
The high-powered delegation consisting of European Union Special Representative Johan Borgstam and other key speakers who met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, raised concerns over the growing unrest especially in the DRC and embarked on working on how to end the hostilities and restore normalcy.
Ethiopia teeters on brink of another conflict a year after Pretoria peace deal ended a brutal civil war in Tigray region
Over the last 18 months, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has launched a campaign to reclaim landlocked Ethiopia’s sea access, which it lost when Eritrea seceded in 1993. This prompted an angry row with Somalia that has only just been patched up.
Contested between Sudan and South Sudan’s oil-rich Abyei territory’s years in political limbo renews ethnic hostility
There have also been longer-standing clashes between the Ngok Dinka and Misseriya pastoralists, who migrate seasonally through Abyei and have historically acted as proxies for the Sudanese government; although there has been a reduction in tensions in recent years.
UN: Whereabouts of 181 migrants unknown, at least two dead after boats capsize off Yemen and Djibouti
Over the past decade, at least 2,082 people have disappeared along the route, including 693 known to have drowned, according to the IOM. About 380,000 migrants are currently in Yemen.
Trump to review legal status of 240,000 Ukrainian migrants as he steps up deportations
Migrants stripped of their parole status could face fast-track deportation proceedings, according to an internal ICE email. Immigrants who cross the border illegally can be put into the fast-track deportation process known as expedited removal, for two years after they enter.
United States military commands sustains airstrikes on Al Shabaab in Somalia as UN extends sanctions
Following its first airstrike in Somalia under second term US President Donald Trump – made public by The Pentagon on February 1 – Africom reports four more similar sorties to date. Two, specify the number – three – of actual strikes with the others reported as “collective self-defence air strikes”.
Serious funding questions raised as new Somali peace support takes over from previous under-resourced military mission
Past missions – the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and ATMIS – depended heavily on donor funding. The EU paid for troops’ stipends, while the UN provided logistical support packages to the missions and Somalia Security Forces through the UN Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS).
Sudanese ‘alternative’ government formed in Kenya preparing to grab diplomatic legitimacy
Politician Ibrahim al-Mirghani, another backer, said the new government would go to the United Nations and other forums to block the army’s participation.
