Security is elusive in the Somali capital, where African Union troops are increasingly coming under attack from Islamist fighters seeking to overthrow the government. FRANCE 24’s Franck Berruyer reports from Mogadishu.
Tension is rife in Mogadishu after weeks of attacks by Islamist militants seeking to overthrow President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed's transition government. FRANCE 24's Franck Berruyer interviewed him at his complex in the Somali capital.
Somalia's President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed (pictured) accuses Eritrea of arming the Islamists fighting to oust his four-month-old government. Speaking a day after his palace was hit by mortar rounds, it is the first time Ahmed has accused Eritrea.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir - the subject of an international arrest warrant for war crimes from the ICC - arrived in Eritrea on Monday to meet with the country's president Issaias Afeworki, who is supporting Bashir.
The Irob people, who inhabit arid highlands at the frontline border between Ethiopia and Eritrea, fled the war between the two countries at the end of the 1990s. Only in the past three years have they started resettling on their land.
Since the withdrawal in July of the United Nation’s Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea, the two countries' armies find themselves in a dangerous face-off.
The UN Security Council adopted a resolution terminating the mandate of the 1,700-strong UN mission monitoring the border dispute (UNMEE) between Eritrea and Ethiopia, which expires Thursday.
The UN Security Council will vote on a draft resoultion submitted by Belgium that would end the UN mission monitoring the border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
The UN Security Council has condemned Eritrea for killing at least six soldiers during border raids against Djibouti. The attacks were carried out at Ras Doumeira, a strategic territory both countries claim as their own.
