‘Warning signs are flashing’ in crisis-torn Central African Republic, warns...
AfricaMetro.Com The Best News website in Africa Despite “vast improvement” in security in parts of the Central African Republic (CAR), there are still deep tensions and some fear of a sudden relapse, a...
View ArticleUN urges aid for civilians swept up in Central African Republic’s ‘new spiral...
AfricaMetro.Com The Best News website in Africa Warning that violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) is quickly escalating, the top United Nations aid official in the country today urged the...
View ArticleUnited Nations Resettles Albino Refugees Due to Threats in Malawi
AfricaMetro.Com The Best News website in Africa Since June of last year, the U.N. refugee agency in Malawi has been resettling albino refugees to North America, amid continued threats to people living...
View ArticleSecurity Council briefed on proposal to reduce number of AU-UN troops in Darfur
AfricaMetro.Com The Best News website in Africa The African Union (AU) and the United Nations are proposing 44 per cent and 30 per cent reductions in their troop and police presence in Sudan’s Darfur...
View ArticleAngola urgently needs funds as Congolese refugee influx overwhelms services,...
AfricaMetro.Com The Best News website in Africa As refugees fleeing violence and communal tensions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continue to arrive in neighbouring Angola, the United Nations...
View ArticleAfrica and the Gulf Crisis – the Peril of Picking Sides
AfricaMetro.Com The Best News website in Africa As the Gulf crisis enters its third week, the decision to cut or downgrade diplomatic ties with Qatar by nine African countries could have a long-term...
View ArticleIdi Amin’s Concrete Boat Sinks During Launch
AfricaMetro.Com The Best News website in Africa During his presidency, Idi Amin very much wanted to show off the military strength of the Ugandan army, and how it was going to bomb Cape Town in South...
View ArticleWith Qatari forces gone, tension rises between Djibouti and Eritrea
AfricaMetro.Com The Best News website in Africa The African Union is calling for calm as border tensions between Djibouti and Eritrea intensify. The rising threat of unrest is further fallout from the...
View ArticleSouth Sudan’s Riek Machar Pleads With Museveni Over House Arrest
AfricaMetro.Com The Best News website in Africa The former mediator between the Uganda government and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Betty Bigombe, has run into the first hurdle in her new...
View ArticleDjibouti Plays the West Off Against the Far East
AfricaMetro.Com The Best News website in Africa China recently established a military base in Djibouti. Little is known about the base except that it may have capacity to house up to 10 000 troops. The...
View ArticleNo Wall for Ethiopia, Rather an Open Door – Even for Its Enemy
AfricaMetro.Com The Best News website in Africa It’s one thing to read about the exodus of souls flowing out of Eritrea, it’s quite another to look into the tired eyes, surrounded by dust and grime, of...
View ArticleMore than $350 million pledged for refugees in Uganda
AfricaMetro.Com The Best News website in Africa A ‘Solidarity Summit’ for refugees hosted by Uganda has raised some $358 million in pledges, the United Nations announced today. UN Secretary-General...
View Article‘Disproportionate emphasis’ on security would undercut sustaining peace in Sahel
AfricaMetro.Com The Best News website in Africa The United Nations deputy chief today stressed the need to “avoid a disproportionate emphasis on security” when carrying out a strategy to help Africa’s...
View ArticleU.S. President, Donald Trump Hosts Two Chibok Girls
AfricaMetro.Com The Best News website in Africa The U.S. President, Donald Trump, and his daughter, Ivanka, met with two Chibok girls, Joy Bishara and Lydia Pogu on June 27 at the White House. Bishara,...
View Article‘It’s Time to Get Tough on Eritrea’
AfricaMetro.Com The Best News website in Africa In the course of the all-embracing efforts to pursue regional integration in the Horn, the Eritrean regime’s belligerent behaviour towards it neighbours...
View ArticleSouth Sudan’s Peace Agreement – Good News or More Trouble Ahead?
South Sudan has a new peace agreement. The question is: will it hold? According to author and scholar Douglas Johnson, that depends on a lot of factors. If it holds, the deal on power-sharing signed on...
View ArticleUN-backed meeting of African States targets terrorism, violent extremism
Regional security topped the agenda of a United Nations-backed joint summit on Central and West Africa searching, among other things, for a practical approach to fighting terrorism. In a statement...
View ArticleCentral Africa: Security Council concerned by ‘grave security situation’,...
With Central African countries beset by ongoing terrorist activity, instability and the effects of climate change, the Security Council has asked the United Nations Secretary-General to review the work...
View ArticleSecurity Forces Kill 37, Wounded 44 in East Hararghe, Oromia Region
The number of people killed after attack by the Liyu police in at least three separate localities in Eastern Hararghe zone of the Oromia regional state has climbed to 37, according to Tizita Abay,...
View ArticleZimbabwe Army Boss Defends Commander-in-Chief Overthrow On Defence Forces Day...
Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) Commander Lieutenant-General Edzai Absolom Chanyuka Chimonyo has defended former state President and Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander-in-Chief Robert Mugabe’s ouster in a...
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