16 October 2021 By Brian Mukhwana and Wafula Okumu Kenyan troops watch the sea around Kismayu. An immediate withdrawal of the Kenyan military from Somalia could be interpreted as surrender, but continued presence could expose the troops to terrorist attacks and spur a Kenya military surge in Somalia. PHOTO | FILE The decision on the […]
24 August 2021 By Joachim Buwembo We Ugandans love history. This love for things past almost led us to war with Kenya in 1976. Our gallant president then, the one and only Field Marshal Idi Amin, had directed all Ugandans to read a certain book that detailed how “our” territory was grabbed by the British […]
20 August 2021 Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Ramtane Lamamra, on Thursday stressed the necessity to scrupulously respect the principle of intangibility of boundaries inherited at the time of independence in the settlement of border disputes in Africa, the ministry said in a statement. The statement by Lamamra was made at […]
17 August 2021 By Anthony Kitimo There are plans to put up 67 roadside stations to serve as rest points for truck drivers in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and the DR Congo. PHOTO | FILE | The Northern Corridor secretariat has a $4.4 million budget for the 2021/2022 financial year to implement and […]
17 August 2021 By Editor Seme border Irked by the lingering challenges affecting cross-border trade between the two countries, members of the private sector in Nigeria and the Republic of Benin are making arrangements to establish Nigeria-Benin Commission to create a smooth trade corridor. Several factors are affecting smooth regional trade among West-African nations, […]
17 August 2021 By Shivshankar Menon South Asia is composed of old nations in new states where nationalism is still a work in progress. Every boundary has cross-border ethnicities. These factors make our boundaries contested. File photo of Indian and Chinese troops disengaging from the banks of the Pangong lake area in Eastern Ladakh | […]
August 11, 2021 By Francis Ezediuno The Osun State Government has inaugurated an 11-man Osun State Boundary Commission to tackle the boundary disputes within and outside the State. The committee, according to the government, will be saddled with the mandate to amicably settle all boundary disputes within the State, as well as Osun and contiguous […]
09 August 2021 Sudan orders its envoy to Ethiopia home for consultations after government spokeswoman in Addis Ababa rejects Sudanese initiative to mediate a ceasefire in Tigray war and accuses it of occupying Ethiopian territory. More than 60,000 people have also fled Tigray and taken refuge in Sudan Sudan said Sunday it ordered its envoy […]
8 August 2021 By Ian Birrell The pandemic has crushed the global tourism industry, with thousands of flights cancelled and millions of holidays postponed – but in one part of the world not normally considered a travel hotspot, there has been a surprising surge in visitor numbers. Belarus, led by Europe’s last dictator and which has […]
09 August 2021 By Emma Wallis These migrants made it to the Canary Islands from Morocco but many more die at sea. Perhaps nearly 2,000 in 2021 alone | Photo: Javier Bauluz / AP A tally of the numbers of migrants who die or go missing during their journeys is impossible to establish definitively, since […]
