Staying abreast of the situation in Tigray, Ethiopia
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Iran has been activating sleeper cells and increasing its support for militias in Sub-Saharan Africa in order to promote its terrorist agenda
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Observers and research centres have repeatedly issued – and escalated – warnings that it is hoped African governments will heed before it is too late
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The withdrawal of peacekeepers with the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur from the war-torn Sudanese region is raising concerns of renewed violence
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The withdrawal of US troops and African peacekeepers from Somalia could spur the fall of the Mogadishu government, destabilising the whole Horn of Africa
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Abiy Ahmed’s military push in Tigray may have been successful in the short term, but resolving the conflict will take negotiations, else Ethiopia could be torn apart
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Al-Ahram Weekly weighs the effects of the unrest in Ethiopia’s Tigray region on the negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
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Holding onto power is an entrenched trend in African politics, regardless the chaos it causes, writes Attia Essawi
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A look at Egypt’s unrelenting diplomacy to safeguard its share of Nile water
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The medium-term prospects of peace in Afghanistan look increasingly fragile as tensions rise between the Taliban and US-supported government in Kabul,
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Attia Essawi traces the long history of Ethiopian intransigence on Nile water negotiations
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What does Khartoum stand to gain from its refusal to initialise the draft agreement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
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Peace draws closer to hand in the six-year-long conflict in South Sudan, but many obstacles remain before an end to the country’s civil war can be declared, writes Attia Essawi
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Al-Ahram Weekly examines the dilemmas that plague the continent and what AU summits have done to address them
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Al-Ahram Weekly finds reasons for optimism following the latest round of negotiations on GERD
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Turkey, Qatar and Iran are not only concerned with North Africa. The tentacles of their expansionist plans penetrate deep into the continent as a whole, writes Attia Essawi in the second installment of a series of articles
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Beyond Libya, the evidence is mounting of a Turkish-Qatari expansionist alliance bent on bringing to heel large swathes of the African continent
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Attia Essawi reviews the agenda of the two-day Invest for Africa Forum which starts tomorrow
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