ADDIS ABABA— The capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region has been reconnected to the national power grid after more than a year of cuts caused by war, the electricity operator said.   The announcement came a month after a peace deal between the federal government and Tigrayan rebels aimed at ending the brutal two-year conflict and […]

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed at a summit this week to establish a regional peacekeeping force to fight terrorism and restore democracy after military coups. The ECOWAS standby force will be led by chiefs of defense staff of member nations, with the stated aim of addressing terrorism and coup attempts among […]

Rome – As the global agrifood systems face challenges to feed an ever-growing global population, resilient cereals like millets provide an affordable and nutritious option, and efforts need to be scaled-up to promote their cultivation.   This was the message at the opening ceremony of the International Year of Millets 2023 (IYM) at the headquarters […]

Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This [coronavirus] one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. (Roy 2020)   This special issue of the Journal on Education in Emergencies (JEiE) is focused on education during pandemics. While the […]

A third round of peace talks for the Democratic Republic of Congo has ended in Nairobi with no reported progress toward settling conflicts in the country’s volatile eastern provinces. The talks are coming to an end as the Congolese government accuses the M23 rebel group of killing at least 270 civilians. The talks ended after […]

DODOMA— Tanzania will set up a Kiswahili poster on top of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak, as part of celebrations to mark the country’s independence day due on Dec 9.   James Mdoe, the deputy permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, handed over the poster to a team of mountain climbers […]

In a remote corner of the Western Australian outback, work has begun on the world’s largest radio telescope. Astronomers say the Square Kilometre Array will be capable of searching the stars for signals of intelligent life and listening back to the start of the universe.   It is an international scientific collaboration. 130,000 antennas and […]

The first shipment of grain as part of Ukraine’s own initiative to supply countries in need arrived Monday in Djibouti for delivery to neighboring Ethiopia amid the region’s worst drought in decades. Ukraine’s embassy in Ethiopia confirmed that the “Grain from Ukraine” shipment of 25,000 tons is separate from a United Nations World Food Program […]