Africa Corps announced a small #Niger deployment to build relationships. Our piece yesterday:

'Moscow doesn’t have an embassy in Niamey. Lacking strong proven connections, Russian dipl. and sec. officials feel they don’t have a good read on the junta.'

responsiblestatecraft.org/us-niger-russi…

In #Ethiopia ’s Oromia region, A family member told Addis Standard that Bate was taken out of his hotel room around midnight on Tuesday, and his body was found by the road the next morning.
The family member added that those who took him “looked like government security forces.”…

Our latest Amnesty International investigation on #Ethiopia We are adding our voice to calls for Merawi killings to be independently investigated amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

#Ethiopia faces tough devaluation decision to secure #IMF bailout

Ethiopia may have to decide on a big currency devaluation sooner rather than later to secure a rescue loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which left the country last week without reaching a…

Tens of thousands of Ethiopians travel the dangerous 'Southern route' to South Africa each year. Was it worth it? My story ⬇️

#EthiopiaMigration

thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2… (The New Humanitarian)

Beyond not credible, it's completely lazy of the UN to keep using the 13,000 killed statistic in #Sudan 's conflict, especially when that figure isn't even consistent with all their internal #s . They need to reconcile these #s now and tell the real story. news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

The US State Department says it does not see a pattern of gross human rights abuses in Ethiopia.

Can the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) - ኢሰመኮ) or Commissioner Daniel Bekele provide an example of a single assassination among the numerous high profile politically motivated incidents that occurred in Ethiopia over the past six years that has been subjected to a…

Ethiopia’s tragic path since 2018 has been strewn with assassinations and political killings. Not one has been properly or fully explained, and nobody ever credibly held to account. Here is the latest in a long, sorry line of them. RIP

#Breaking : Bate Urgessa, #OLF political officer shot dead

#Bate_Urgessa , political officer of the opposition Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) has been killed, sources confirmed to Addis Standard. Bate was shot dead last night in #Meki town, East Shoa zone of the Oromia region.…

There is a high risk of mass atrocities in #Darfur , especially against the Zaghawa. Preventing a further escalation of the war in #Sudan should be high on the agenda of the upcoming international meetings.

New: Satellite analysis shows thousands of tonnes of aid stuck at Gaza’s border while the enclave nears famine. Our latest visual story on the continuing problems with delivery & distribution by Lucy Rodgers Dan Clark Irene de la Torre Arenas Justine Williams Jana Tauschinski

ig.ft.com/gaza-aid/

As SAF & allied militia pursue operations to retake Gezira state, on the heels of SAF's success in Omdurman, and as violence rises in South Kordofan - #Sudan 's warring parties don't appear ready to talk ceasefire. And the signs from North #Darfur are very worrying:

I loved reporting this story on Harar's hyenas. The town's relationship with the animals goes so much deeper than the feeding shows tourists go and see.

Great photos by Guillaume Peterman.

theguardian.com/environment/20…

My new paper for Small Arms Survey on the impact of #Sudan 's conflict on South Kordofan and the Nuba Mountains:
smallarmssurvey.org/resource/nuba-…

On this also - must read this by Katy Fallon last September: theguardian.com/global-develop…

The bitter paradox of elite deal based peacemaking is that you need strongmen to do it. Fragmentation of fighting forces in Sudan makes peacemaking orthodoxies impossible. Yet civilian leaders are also nowhere near providing a viable alternative. Grave and despairing times…

La Grande famine éthiopienne : 40 ans après 🇪🇹

A l’heure où le nord de l’Ethiopie se trouve de nouveau au bord de la famine, le monde garde en mémoire la catastrophe qui, en 1984, a coûté la vie à plus de 300 000 personnes.

Le Monde Afrique

lemonde.fr/afrique/articl…