Ethiopia’s Tigray Conflict Is Dominating Africa Headline News

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  Ten­sions in Ethiopia’s north­ern Tigray region have gone from talk­ing about the poten­tial for con­flict into what is now the after­math of a war between the country’s fed­er­al gov­ern­ment in Addis Aba­ba and the region­al gov­ern­ment in Tigray. An esti­mat­ed six mil­lion peo­ple live in the Tigray region.  Since fight­ing began on Novem­ber 4,…

Uganda Issues New Directives for Foreign Journalists

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KAMPALA, UGANDA — Human rights activists are denounc­ing a new Ugan­dan direc­tive to scru­ti­nize jour­nal­ists work­ing for for­eign media. On Thurs­day, Paul Ekochu, the chair­man of the Ugan­dan government’s Media Coun­cil, said jour­nal­ists work­ing in the coun­try for for­eign outlets