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[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- For much of the past three decades, the political economy of the Horn of Africa rested on a fragile but durable arrangement: Ethiopia's overwhelming dependence on Djibouti as its primary maritime gateway and Djibouti's ability to convert geography into political and economic leverage. That arrangement is now in terminal decline. What is unfolding across the Horn is not simply a series of bilateral disputes or diplomatic misunderstandings, but a structural transition--a Red Sea Cold War--that is testing

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[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The government of Ethiopia has declined to renew accreditation for three Addis Abeba-based journalists from Reuters and withdrawn the accreditation to cover the 39th African Union (AU) Summit, days after the news agency published an investigative report alleging Ethiopia is hosting a training facility linked to Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

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[United Nations in Sudan] The Rapid Support Forces unleashed "a wave of intense violence ... shocking in its scale and brutality" during its final offensive to capture the besieged city of El Fasher last October, committing widespread atrocities that amount to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity, says a report published Friday by the UN Human Rights Office.

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[Reporter] A coalition of international powers on Thursday issued an urgent condemnation of escalating military operations in Sudan, warning that sieges, drone strikes, and attacks on civilian infrastructure are pushing the country toward further atrocities.

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It's another hurdle lowered for more Chinese-African trade: Beijing announced on Saturday that it would scrap tariffs for imports from 53 African countries. Eswatini is the only one not on the list as it maintains diplomatic relations with Taiwan, whose sovereignty China challenges.

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Mourners attended the funeral of one of the last leaders of Kenya's Mau Mau resistance movement in Ngorika near the Aberdare mountains. Christopher Njora Muronyo died at the age of 106, still carrying three bullets in his body from his time as a rebel against the British in the 1950s.

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A French tourist, identified as Paul Ferreri, who went missing in northeastern Chad after heading off to visit an oasis in the desert has been found dead "after a fall", Chad's tourism minister told AFP on Friday. His death was a "tragic accident" according to another French tourist.

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Former US president Barack Obama has reacted to a racist AI-generated video depicting himself and his wife Michelle Obama as apes. The video was shared by current US president Donald Trump, who claimed that he had not seen the part of the video showing the Obamas.

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Motorcycle-riding gunmen swept into three villages in a central region of Nigeria, shooting dead or cutting the throats of at least 46 people, a humanitarian source told AFP on Saturday.

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After a French tourist was found dead on Friday during a group visit to Chad for the International Festival of Saharan Cultures, the tourist group has now arrived at the military airbase of N'Djamena to leave the country.

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Ghana has called on Russia to extradite the man, who is accused of recording sexual encounters without consent.

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Leaders are attending the African Union (AU) annual summit in Ethiopia at a time of genocide, myriad insurgencies and coups stretching from one end of the continent to the other, for which it has few answers.

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The University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has approved the return of 116 Benin bronzes to Nigeria, marking another major step in the

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Across Africa, shifting light reshapes these famous landscapes into entirely different scenes throughout the day. At dawn, Namibia’s Sossusvlei dunes blush

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After decades of being sidelined by war and natural disasters, Mozambique is emerging as one of Africa’s most compelling travel destinations. Along its

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Underground sounds will shape Nigerian mainstream culture in 2026, building on the momentum sparked by Rema’s genre-defying 2025 album, Heis. That shift

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Archaeologists in Córdoba have uncovered a 2,200-year-old elephant ankle bone that may offer the first physical evidence of war elephants used by Hannibal

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Despite swirling doubts about infrastructure readiness, the next Africa Cup of Nations tournament is set to be held in East Africa from June to July 2027. CAF

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Africa's art market faces a pivotal moment as global competition intensifies, particularly with Art Basel's arrival in Doha reshaping the Middle Eastern,

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While the rest of the world sees African cuisine as emerging, Marcus Samuelsson believes it has always been here. During a recent interview with CNN, the

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African cinema has never looked better on paper. From auteurs like Chad’s Mahamat-Saleh Haroun to newcomers like Nigeria’s Olive Nwosu, the continent’s