ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The United States lifted sanctions against Eritrea’s ruling party and the military that the former Biden administration imposed, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The sanctions were issued in 2021 over humanitarian and human rights concerns during a violent conflict in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray. Eritrean forces
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Sweden has two major political blocs featuring four parties on the right and four on the left – meaning coalition and minority governments are relatively common. Andersson’s party, the Social Democrats, have been a major force in Swedish politics since the end of World War Two. But SD – founded by Nazi sympathisers in the
The far-right Alternative for Germany was projected to win a strong victory in a regional election Sunday, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether it would be able to fulfill its ambition of forming the country’s first far-right state government since World War II. The party of German’s unpopular leader, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, was set for a
When U.S.-Canada trade talks collapsed for good last Friday night, the recriminations broke out almost instantly, and not just between Washington and Ottawa. In Maine, Vermont and Michigan—three states with outsized economic exposure to Canada—elected officials from both parties and the executives who run the region’s largest employers have spent the past week saying, in
Emmanuel Nchimbi has been expelled from Tanzania’s ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party for indiscipline following his decision earlier this week to resign as the country’s vice-president after 10 months in the job. The 54-year-old has made some controversial remarks in recent weeks – including urging Tanzanians to “fight for a new constitution” – pointing
