South Sudan will collaborate with Ethiopia in taking measures against the perpetrators of the killings and abductions carried out by forces that attacked civilians in the regional state of Gambella,.
The United States will give $40 million in humanitarian assistance to countries bordering Lake Chad fighting Islamist militant group Boko Haram, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power has.
Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan has urged African leaders to leave when their mandated time is up and to avoid excluding opposing voices if elections are to cease contributing to.
The Ethiopian Defense Force has continued with its military operation to release children kidnapped from districts in the regional state of Gambella, the Government Communication Affairs Office (GCAO recently confirmed).
Nigeria has made progress in combating Boko Haram although the Islamist militant group is still a threat, the White House has recently said, adding that the United States has assisted.
Ethiopia and Ghana have signed an agreement providing for close partnership in the areas of peacekeeping, security and conflict resolution. The agreement allows Ethiopia to work with Kofi Annan International.
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday urged the people and government of Burundi to explore dialogue in resolving the current political differences in the country.
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has told the BBC he will step down in 2020, when his current mandate ends. He said that his job was “exhausting” and his current term.
An estimated $9 billion would be required for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of damaged infrastructure in the six North-East states of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe, the office.
Burundi has recently accepted the United Nations Security Council’s resolution to send in police, the foreign affairs minister told Reuters, after months of political tension.
