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Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said armed groups from the Amhara region were responsible for a recent surge in horrific abuses in the long-contested western part of Tigray.

Rights groups sound alarm over new wave of violence in Ethiopia
NAIROBI: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) and Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ambassador Raychelle Omamo speak at a press conference after their bilateral meeting at the Serena Hotel in Nairobi yesterday. – AFP n

Blinken warns on democracy at start of Africa tour
NAIROBI: People shop in Nairobi. Kenyaís economy shrank for the first time in three decades last year as the country was battered by the coronavirus pandemic.

Kenya suffers huge job losses as COVID pummels economy
KISUMU: People stand next to a burnt out petrol tanker that burst into flames when it overturned in western Kenya, while a crowd thronged to collect the spilling fuel, on the busy highway between Kisumu and the border with Uganda, yesterday. - AFPn

13 dead as petrol tanker explodes in Kenya
NEW DELHI: A COVID-19 coronavirus patient reacts while sitting on a bed inside a banquet hall temporarily converted into a COVID care center in New Delhi yesterday.—AFPn

India's COVID battle stokes vaccine worries in Africa
MEKELE: A general view, through a broken glass, of a bus station in Wukro, north of Mekele. Every phase of the four-month-old conflict in Tigray has brought suffering to Wukro, a fast-growing transport hub once best-known for its religious and archaeological sites. - AFPn

Over 100 killed in Tigray massacre: Rights body
Saint-Senier-de-Beuvron, population 350, is none too thrilled to have been picked as a ground station for Elon Musk's Starlink project for broadband from space.nn

Despite risks, Nairobi gives cycling a spin in pandemic bike push
A damaged tank stands abandoned on a road as a truck of the Amhara Special Forces passes by near Humera, Ethiopia, on November 22, 2020. - Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, last year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, announced military operations in Tigray on November 4, 2020, saying they came in response to attacks on federal army camps by the party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). nHundreds have died in nearly three weeks of hostilities that analysts worry could draw in the broader Horn of Africa region, though Abiy has kept a lid on the details, cutting phone and internet connections in Tigray and restricting reporting. (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP)

Ethiopia says Axum airport smashed, Tigrayans face surrender deadline
A picture shows an eclipse see from Yunlin county, center Taiwan on June 21, 2020. (Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP)

‘Ring of fire’ solar eclipse thrills gazers
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BADULLA, Sri Lanka: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe inaugurate the Uma Oya irrigation and hydroelectricity project on April 24, 2024. - AFP
Raisi opens power project in Lanka
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AMMAN: Jordan's King Abdullah II bids farewell to HH the Amir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at the airport on April 24, 2024, at the conclusion of HH the Amir’s two-day state visit. – KUNA photos (See Page 3)
Kuwait, Jordan urge regional peace
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GAZA: A woman searches through the rubble of a collapsed building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 24, 2024 following overnight Zionist air strikes. - AFP
Zionists strike Gaza, Lebanon after US approves military aid
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UAE allots $544m for rain repairs, says lessons ‘learned’
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Kuwait Deputy Foreign Minister Ambassador Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, participated in a luncheon ceremony hosted by Luxembourg Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel on Monday.
GCC, EU discuss security and ties