Bloomberg Forces in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region fired missiles towards the capital of neighbouring Eritrea for a second consecutive day after Ethiopian federal troops routed them from their own regional capital, according to foreign diplomats with knowledge of the attack. Officials from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front have blamed Eritrea for helping Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed advance against them ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam says that she has “piles of cash” at home because she is denied basic banking services due to US sanctions. In an interview, Lam said the Hong Kong government has to pay her in cash because she does not have a bank account following sanctions imposed by the US on her and other ...

Bloomberg The Somali military executed three members of the Al-Shabab extremist group who were convicted of several killings in the capital Mogadishu. The three included Mohamed Haji Ahmed Ilkacase, chief of Al-Shabab’s assassination unit in Mogadishu, according to military court officials. They were executed by firing squad on Sunday, the attorney general of the Somali military court, Abdullahi Bulle Kamey, ...