BLAMING OPPOSITION FOR HUNGER IS ‘DELUSION’, ATIKU TELLS TINUBU. (PHOTO).

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Blaming opposition for hunger is ‘delusion’, Atiku tells Tinubu Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of blaming the opposition for the country’s economic hardship. He said the President was trying to evade responsibility for his administration’s policies. Tinubu had earlier on Saturday blamed his political opponents for hunger and poverty in the country while speaking at the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign flag-off in Kaduna. “I hear my opponent talking about hunger, poverty. Who created it? They did! They created the hunger, they created the poverty. We are trying to eradicate it,” the President said. Atiku, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, said Nigerians were entitled to demand answers from the APC-led government over rising living costs, poverty, insecurity and questions surrounding public expenditure. In a statement issued on Saturday by the Director of Strategic Communication of the ADC Presidential Ca...

ERITREA, SOMALIA, SUDAN, EGYPT LEADERS TO HOLD TALKS AS ETHIOPIA TENSIONS DEEPEN. (PHOTO).


 Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, Egypt leaders to hold talks as Ethiopia tensions deepen


The leaders of Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan will hold a four-way summit in the northern Egyptian city of New Alamein on Sunday to discuss regional developments amid the ongoing conflict in northern Ethiopia, Anadolu Agency reported.


An Egyptian presidency statement said the summit comes as part of “consultation and coordination about regional issues of mutual concern.”


The summit will bring together Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, and Sudan's Sovereign Council Chairman Abdel Fattah Al Burhan.


Ethiopia-Eritrea tensions


The summit comes after Ethiopia and Eritrea severed diplomatic relations, and Egypt and Ethiopia exchanged expulsions of diplomats.


​​​​​Fighting resumed in September between Ethiopian federal forces and an opposition alliance led by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), with hostilities spreading into parts of southern Tigray and the neighbouring Afar region.

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