➡️French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne resigned on Monday after less than two years in office, the presidency said, as President Emmanuel Macron plans a reshuffle to relaunch his second term.
Macron accepted her resignation, a presidential statement said. Writing on X, Macron thanked her for “work in the service of our nation that has been exemplary every day”, without explicitly mentioning her resignation.⬅️

https://insiderpaper.com/french-prime-minister-elisabeth-borne-resigns-presidency/

Africa ~ 🚨

We know US has NG there now! Pray for our military! 🙏

Ethiopia said it held talks on Monday, January 8, on military cooperation with Somaliland, just a week after a deal with the breakaway Somali region on sea access stoked tensions in the Horn of Africa.
Despite regional and international concern over the pact, Ethiopia's army chief Birhanu Jula "discussed military cooperation" with his Somaliland counterpart Nuh Ismail Tani on Monday, according to a statement on Facebook posted by Ethiopia's defence force.
The discussions in Addis Ababa were held the same day Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud began a visit to neighboring Eritrea. Somalia is seeking international support over the controversial January 1 agreement between Ethiopia and Somaliland – a separatist region over which Mogadishu exercises little real authority.
The central government has branded the memorandum of understanding (MoU), which gives landlocked Ethiopia access to the Red Sea via Somaliland, an act of "aggression" and a violation of its sovereignty.
Somalia's president has signed a law "nullifying" a contentious agreement between Ethiopia and Somaliland in a largely symbolic gesture of his government's displeasure over the deal to grant port access. President Mohamud said the law voided the "illegal" pact giving landlocked Ethiopia long-sought access to the Red Sea through Somaliland, a separatist northwestern region over which Somalia exercises little real authority.
Ethiopia, the second most populous country in Africa and one of the biggest landlocked nations in the world, was cut off from the coast after Eritrea seceded and declared independence in 1993 following a three-decade war.
Also on Monday, Djibouti said it was following "with great concern" the tensions between Somalia and Ethiopia and called for dialogue between the two nations to de-escalate the situation.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/01/08/ethiopia-holds-military-talks-with-separatist-region-of-somalia_6413982_4.html