En RDC, les bombardements se poursuivent, malgré l’accord de paix signé à Washington

Me standing in front of Maryam Dengelat Church near Idaga Hamus, #Tigray. Picture taken in March 2018. In the same spot, Eritrean troops would kill more than one hundred men, women and children two and a half years later, on 30 November 2020. Strong memories - unable to forget

Amid rising tensions over Tigray and Ethiopia’s drive to access the Red Sea, de-escalation is urgently needed to prevent Ethiopia and Eritrea from going to war.

19th-century manuscript containing a drawing of a chessboard -Ankobar Mikā'ēl Church, Ethiopia (digitised by HMML) Ivory chess pieces 19th century Tigray, Ethiopia -British Museum #randomxt

“The ancient monuments of Ethiopia and Eritrea, which are among the largest collections of stone structures in Africa, are a testament to the architectural ingenuity and cultural diversity of the societies that flourished in the northern Horn of Africa.” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-histor...

Soudan : après la chute d’El-Fasher au Darfour, la bataille pour le contrôle du Kordofan

Today marks five years since the start of the Tigray War. I remember as if it were yesterday. The faces of those who lost their lives remain vivid. Still asking myself what we could have done differently.

www.gatesnotes.com/three-tough-... Very interesting ideas by Bill Gates on fighting climate change and prioritizing human development! @billgates.bsky.social

De eerste verschrikkelijke video’s die uit El Fasher komen, doen de vrees over een nieuwe etnische massaslachting sterk toenemen. Ik vertelde aan Yassin Boutayeb wat we hier in Port Soedan meekrijgen van de inname van deze belangrijke stad in Darfur: www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/n...

Sudan |We are deeply saddened by the killing of five Sudanese Red Crescent Society volunteers in Bara, North Kordofan. Humanitarian workers must never be a target. Our hearts are with their families, colleagues, and all those they served with compassion and courage. ms.spr.ly/63324t8NCe

Soudan : l’insupportable passivité internationale face à la tragédie

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces claim they've seized the Sudanese army's last base in El Fasher, Darfur - trapping hundreds of thousands and stoking fears the country could split in two.

Grave fears for civilians after Sudanese paramilitary claims capture of El Fasher

In 2024, the IOM tracked 446,000 people leaving the Horn of Africa via the “Eastern route”, crossing into Yemen to reach the Arabian Gulf. Ninety-six percent were Ethiopian, and a third of those were Tigrayan – although Tigrayans make up only 6% of Ethiopia’s population.

Mulatu Astatke, le père de l’éthio-jazz, toujours en mission à 81 ans

Sudan 🇸🇩 MAP UPDATE: the situation in Sudan as of 01/10/2025. -This past month the SAF achieved some critical victories in northern Kordofan, seizing control of Bara and pushing the RSF further away from the city of El Obeid. But the RSF assault on El Fasher has only intensified

THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org: A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye. #OSINT

In many African armed conflicts, estimates of fatalities differ widely, including in #Sudan and regarding the war in Northern #Ethiopia 2020-22. While numbers matter, it is important not to present sometimes mere guesses at the same level as mortality studies. www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Debate: Ethiopians view the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam as a development right long denied by colonial-era rules. Egyptians call it an existential threat. We asked a contributor from each country to weigh in.

Thousands of people have gone missing without a trace in Sudan’s war, exacerbating a decades-old pattern that leaves their families trapped between hope and despair.

Fantastic show yesterday evening by Mulatu Astatke, the father of the #Ethiojazz, at the Ancienne Belgique Concert Hall in Brussels! What an honour to be able to listen to Mulatu and his band of world class jazz musicians!

A boat capsized yesterday (Friday) in DR Congo, killing at least 86 people. In the past 5 years, boat disasters have killed at least 646 in DR Congo, the deadliest for boat tragedies over this period, compared to about 250 in Bangladesh, nearly 200 in Indonesia, and about 150 in the Philippines.

Happy New Year to all Ethiopian friends! May the new year 2018 EC bring lots of peace and happinness!

Ethiopië opent controversiële megadam, tot onvrede van Soedan en Egypte

www.standaard.be/buitenland/b... Burundi expulses Country Director of Belgian Development Agency #Enabel after reposting article published by @thecontinent.org

Market in Gondar, Ethiopia ca. 1936-41 #archivesxt

📍 Sudan | Armed conflict has forced millions of people to flee again and again, each time leaving behind homes, relatives, and a sense of security. Daniel Gerard O’Malley, ICRC head of delegation in Sudan, shares 👇🏽

Est de la RDC : une enquête de l’ONU relève de possibles crimes de guerre de toutes les parties

House construction ca. 1938 Kano, Nigeria -Quai Branly #archivesxt

#DRC: Health authorities have declared an outbreak of #Ebola Virus Disease in the Bulape health zone, Kasaï province. As of Sept. 4, 28 suspected cases have been reported, with 16 fatalities, including 4 health workers.

BREAKING: At least 1,000 people killed in Sudan after a landslide wipes out a village in Darfur, rebel group controlling the area says.

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 211 of The Continent. Fuel’s been scarce in Burundi since 2018, thanks to political unrest. Now, people are risking bullets, crocodiles, even prison just to fill up. Get your copy here: bit.ly/211_TC

Bagamoyo, Tanzania ca. 1907 #archivesxt -University Library Frankfurt am Main

China’s trade with Africa is booming, as barriers rise elsewhere. Total exports to the continent are expected to pass the $200 billion mark this year for the FIRST TIME.

“I would ask my African friends to go to London, to Edinburgh, to Glasgow Let them see the pale, sickly, careworn factory girls who have no hope of life but in that imprisonment.” Perspectives and outcomes of Africa's age of exploration www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/perpsectiv...

UN agency warns children in North Darfur city remain cut off from aid and protection as fighting continues to rage.

With the state absent and armed groups in control, Goma, in eastern DRC, feels like purgatory. Edizon Musavuli, a local artist, turns to drawing to capture life in the uncertainty of occupation.

Soudan : un convoi d’aide humanitaire attaqué au Darfour

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 209 of The Continent The war in Sudan is more than numbers and labels — it’s a war about everything. Five Sudanese writers share stories from the ground, revealing its real contours and what it’s truly about. Get your copy here: bit.ly/TC_209

En Russie, des jeunes femmes africaines contraintes de fabriquer des drones de combat

www.bbc.com/news/article... At least 40 people have been killed in an attack on a camp for displaced people in Sudan's western #Darfur region.

Bij een grote aanval op een Soedanees vluchtelingenkamp in april zouden mogelijk meer dan 1.500 burgers zijn vermoord. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van de Britse krant The Guardian. Eerdere schattingen van het dodental lagen veel lager. www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/s...

15 000 dollars de caution pour un visa : Washinton teste sa politique antimigratoire en Afrique australe

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... The liberal world order has already ended in Sudan, and there isn’t anything to replace it. - Very strong piece by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com

Our teams in Goma, #DRC, continue to record alarming levels of sexual violence cases. Between January and April 2025, over 7,400 people were treated in Goma and 2,400 more were treated in Saké. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/surviving-se...

Le Kenya, destination finale de la « fast fashion », croule sous les vêtements de seconde main

In response to the attempts by the Portuguese Catholic clerics to subordinate the Ethiopian church, the Ethiopian envoy Sägga Zäᵓab authored a treatise titled The Faith of the Ethiopians in 1534, which advocated for the co-existence of the Christian sects www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/perpsectiv...

The arrival of Ethiopian envoys and pilgrims in various European courts and pilgrimage sites between the 14th and 16th centuries also resulted in increased contacts between the African kingdom and its Latin co-religionists. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/perpsectiv...