Negotiators in Katowice, Poland, completed a contentious two-week summit on Saturday, December 15, producing what has been called a “rulebook” for implementing the 2015 Paris climate agreement, reports The Guardian. This year’s Conference of Parties, otherwise referred to as the UN Climate Summits, was the 24th annual summit, and was primarily
On Tuesday October 16th, Abiy Ahmed, the reformist Prime Minister who rose to the post following the unexpected resignation of Hailemariam Desalegn, announced a new cabinet comprised of fifty percent women, according to the Washington Post. The announcement came at a meeting of the House of People’s Representatives- the Ethiopian
Thursday July 26 marked the court-ordered deadline by which the U.S. government was to have reunited immigrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. Although court filings note that roughly 1,400 families have already been reunited, by the end of the day on July 26 over 700 children had not been
At least 46 people have died, and another 16 gone missing, off the Yemeni coast following the capsizing of a smuggler’s boat carrying 100 Ethiopian migrants looking for work in Yemen, according to the BBC. These casualties, which occurred on Wednesday June 6, are part of a larger regional pattern
The European Union (EU) has announced it is in favor of tying funding to a level of observance rule of law in member states, according to the AP. The measures discussed in a European Commission meeting on April 25 would cut certain EU funding to states where judicial independence is
On Friday, May 18, a shooter opened fire at Santa Fe High School in Galveston County, Texas, killing 10 people and injuring at least 13, according to reports from NPR. This tragedy marks the most deadly shooting since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High shooting in Parkland, Florida in February, in
Multiple bombings at voter registration centers in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul and Pul-e-Khumri killed at least 63 people and wounded one hundred more, according to reports from Al Jazeera and BBC News. The first bomb, which detonated in Kabul at roughly 10 AM local time, killed 57 people, while the second,
Tensions remain high in Tunisia after a March 26th vote by the Tunisian Parliament determining that the mandate of the country’s human rights and truth commission would not be extended, according to the Al-Monitor news agency. This decision has been controversial, going against the advice of groups such as Human
On Friday, April 6th, United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced that its most recent airstrike in Somalia killed three members of al-Shabaab, according to the New York Times. The strike took place roughly 230 miles southwest of the capital Mogadishu, near the small town of Jilib, which is generally considered
Ethiopia’s ruling coalition, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), has selected a new chairperson, the Washington Post reports. Dr. Abiy Ahmed, a founder of the Ethiopian government’s modern cyber-intelligence service and former minister of science and technology, is also set to become the country’s new prime minister. Dr. Ahmed
Syrian forces under President Bashar al-Assad are set to make the final push for victory in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, March 13. With other fronts in the ongoing Syrian crisis drawing to a close, Syrian army troops have converged on Eastern Ghouta,
On Friday, March 9, shortly after the Florida state legislature passed new gun-control legislation into law, the National Rifle Association (NRA) announced that it would sue the state, arguing that new restrictions introduced in the legislation violate the Constitution, according to BBC News. The bill places a three-day waiting period
On Friday, February 16th, suicide bombers struck the small town of Konduga in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 20 and injuring dozens more. Reports claim that, at about 9 p.m., three attackers set off explosive devices at a crowded fish market that served as a popular eatery and hangout spot
