Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power promising real democracy, promoting women and feverishly planting trees across his vast country, snapping up the Nobel Peace Prize along the way. But Abiy’s image of a modern, peacemaking reformer risks shattering entirely after he sent troops and warplanes into Ethiopia’s Tigray region, a move analysts fear […]

A suicide car bomber struck an army base in Afghanistan on Sunday killing at least 30 security personnel, officials said, in one of the bloodiest attacks targeting government forces in recent months. The attack occurred on the outskirts of Ghazni city, capital of the eastern province of Ghazni, which has seen regular fighting between the […]

Abiy’s government has been trying to quell a rebellion by a powerful ethnic faction that dominated the central government for decades before he came to power in 2018. Thousands of people are believed to have been killed, and nearly 44,000 have fled to Sudan, in a conflict that has called into question whether Abiy can […]

Burkina Faso’s leader has been unable to secure a parliamentary majority despite winning the presidential election earlier this week, the country’s electoral commission announced. Marc Roch Kabore’s party won the first round of the election with his People’s Movement for Progress gaining 56 seats — falling short of the 64 needed for an outright majority […]

Police in the British capital have detained more than 60 people during a protest against coronavirus restrictions. “We expect this number to rise. We continue to urge people to go home,” London’s Metropolitan Police wrote on Twitter on Saturday afternoon. Under current rules, residents in England are only allowed to leave their homes for compelling […]