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 Ethiopian forces regain control of border city near Eritrea Ethiopian government forces and their allies entered Adigrat, near the border with Horn of Africa neighbour Eritrea, days after Eritrean troops were pushed back from the strategic city. The reported incursion by Eritrean troops, which Eritrea has denied and Reuters could not independently verify, has raised fears of a return to all-out war along Ethiopia's northern border where the two nations have clashed before. Conflicts elsewhere in the region and tensions across the Red Sea have further raised the stakes. The fighting that broke out last month has been the biggest escalation since ​the Tigray war, in which hundreds of thousands of people died.

 CHIEF OF NAVAL STAFF INAUGURATES COMMUNITY PROJECTS IN ORLU The Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Idi Abbas, has reconstructed the community civic hall and provided a ten-thousand-capacity water storage facility with a solar-powered industrial borehole for the people of Uzoubi-Umuna in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State. Beatrice Anyiam reports that the projects were executed under the Special Intervention Quick Impact Project Scheme of the Navy. The reconstructed Okwu Owerre Civic Hall, popularly known as Obi Okonko, and the provision of a 10,000-capacity water storage facility with reticulation and a solar-powered industrial borehole for the people of Uzoubi-Umuna in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State are part of the civil-military cooperation efforts of the Nigerian Navy. Inaugurating the facilities, the Chief of the Naval Staff, represented by the Chief of Accounts and Budget, Rear Admiral Omoyola Olukoya, affirmed that the Nigerian Navy recognises that meaningf...

 FIRST LADY ADVOCATES END TO CHILD MARRIAGE, GREATER INVESTMENT IN GIRLS  Nigeria's First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu wants families, communities, leaders and  policymakers to do more in protecting the rights of every girl, end child marriage, and invest in her general well-being, noting that when girls thrive, families prosper, communities grow stronger and nations advance. The First Lady made the appeal In a statement to commemorate the 2026 International Day of The Girl child, observed under the theme “End Child Marriage and Invest in Girls’ Rights. Celebrating the voices, strength, potential, and leadership of girls everywhere, the First Lady insists that every  girl deserves the freedom to learn, grow, and pursue her dreams without discrimination, violence or harmful practices limiting her future.