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Ethiopia and Egypt have agreed to hold further talks on the impact of an Ethiopian dam to quell tensions between the two countries, the foreign ministers of both nations said Tuesday."We agreed that we will start immediately on consultations at both the technical level... and the political level," Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr told reporters, after meetings in Addis Ababa with his Ethiopian counterpart Tedros Adhanom.The countries have been embroiled in a heated row after Ethiopia began diverting the Blue Nile River last month for the construction of the 6000 MW Grand Renaissance Dam.Concerned over how the dam could impact downstream water levels, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi warned that "all options are open" over its construction.But Amr and Tedros said that relations between the countries remain "brotherly" and that they will continue talks on the impact of the dam.Amr said that previous statements had been made "in the heat of the moment.""Both ministers stressed ...
The president of the tiny East African nation of Djibouti won a landslide re-election victory, an official said Saturday, in a vote colored by an opposition boycott ...
Judges at the International Criminal Court reported the African nation of Djibouti to the United Nations Security Council Thursday for failing to arrest Sudanese Pre...
The U.S. election monitoring group Democracy International says Djibouti's government has kicked the group out of the country less than a month before the nation's p...
President Obama spoke in unprecedented detail Thursday about the U.S. drone program, as he adamantly defended the controversial strikes as legal and necessary to nat...
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., issued a sharp and unusual challenge to the truthfulness of the nation's top uniformed military commander on Thursday, demanding that U....
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Two more countries will send troops to join a peacekeeping force protecting the embattled Somali government against al-Qaida-linked Islamist i...
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Defense officials say an Army major general with the U.S. Africa Command has been relieved of his post in connection with alcohol and sexual misconduct charges. He h...
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday that U.S. operations against Al-Qaeda are now concentrating on key groups in Yemen, Somalia and North Africa.Panetta...
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Thirty-eight countries have beaten a U.N.-imposed deadline of 2015 to cut in half the proportion of hungry people.The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization on Satur...
Voters in the tiny East African nation of Djibouti are casting ballots in the nation's parliamentary elections.Friday's vote is notable because opposition political ...
A boat ferrying passengers to a traditional festival overturned off the coast of Djibouti Thursday, killing at least 69 people, an official said.More people were fea...
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Two Marine Corps transport helicopters crashed Friday off the coast of Djibouti , the Pentagon said.Two of the 12 crew members were rescued. The status of the other ...
Authorities used batons and tear gas against thousands of protesters in the tiny nation of Djibouti on Friday, the latest in a series of rallies modeled after demons...
Voters in the tiny nation of Djibouti, which hosts the only U.S. military base in Africa, cast ballots for president Friday in an election boycotted by most oppositi...