April 21, 2021   By U.S. AFRICA COMMAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, United States Africa Command   U.S. Africa Command commander, U.S. Army Gen. Stephen Townsend, testified before the House Armed Services Committee on April 20 as part of the command’s annual Posture Statement to Congress. Townsend testified alongside Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Amanda Dory and the U.S. ...

  April 20, 2021   Service members of the Ukrainian armed forces drive an armoured vehicle during a training at a firing range in Donetsk region, Ukraine April 20, 2021. REUTERS/Serhiy Takhmazov   By Matthias Williams and Robin Emmott   KYIV/BRUSSELS (REUTERS) – Russia will soon have more than 120,000 troops on Ukraine’s border, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said ...

  April 20, 2021   Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was transferred to a regional hospital for convicts (above) in Vladimir, Russia, on April 19, 2021. PHOTO: EPA-EFE   By AFP   VLADIMIR – A team of medics including ailing Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s personal doctor were denied access Tuesday (April 20) to a penal colony where he is being treated ...

  April 20, 2021   Chad’s President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the front line of a fight against northern rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday, the day after Deby was declared the winner of a sixth term in office. Chad’s President Idriss Deby arrives at a summit in the southern French city of Pau on ...

  April 19, 2021   File – Ban Ki-Moon, 2008 | Image: Eskinder Debebe/UN Photo   By Jennifer Peltz | The Associated Press   UNITED NATIONS – Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world body and Southeast Asian countries Monday to take swift and strong action to stop the deadly crackdown that has followed the military coup in Myanmar, ...

  April 19, 2021   On Monday he landed in Kinshasa to meet the African Union chairman Felix Tshisekedi. Courtesy/Villa Somalia   By Aggrey Mutambo and Abdulkadir Khalif | The East African   President Mohamed Farmaajo of Somalia is seeking the support of the African Union in his last week’s decision to extend his term of office by two years, ...

  April 19, 2021   This photo shows the Arrival of Nigerian Police Officers in Mogadishu, Somalia. Photo Credit: AMSIOM   By AMISOM   MOGADISHU – A contingent of 144 police officers from Nigeria on Saturday arrived in Somalia, to serve under the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) for a period of one year, during which they will mentor ...

  April 19, 2021   Taiwan’s armed forces are in the midst of a modernisation programme to offer a more effective deterrent against China. PHOTO: REUTERS   By REUTERS   TAIPEI – Taiwan is seeking to acquire long-range, air-launched cruise missiles from the United States, a defence official said on Monday (April 19), as the Chinese-claimed island bolsters its forces ...

  April 18, 2021   FILE – Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed in military fatigue on 23 June 2019 | PHOTO: AFP   By Sudan Tribune   NEW YORK – A United States senator has expressed disappointment over the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s failure to withdraw Eritrean forces from the Tigray region, remove obstacles to humanitarian access and hold perpetrators ...

  April 18, 2021   Minister Shoukry reviewed, during the meeting, the overall developments in the region and Egypt’s vision regarding settling the region’s crises Egyptian Foreign Minister and Greek Foreign Minister are holding a meeting in Cairo. Photo: via Ahram Online   By Ahram Online   CAIRO – Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendiasaa ...