Mogadishu Flights Delayed As Fire Guts Down Aden Abdulle Airport Restaurant

Mogadishu-Hundreds of travellers remained stranded at Mogadishu’s Aden Abdulle Airport after an inferno forced flights to be delayed. The fire gutted down a section of a restaurant within the Airport that serves travellers. Firefighters arrived at the scene to put out the inferno that had threatened to spread to other parts of the airport. A

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Migrant boat sinks off Turkey’s Aegean coast, 13 missing

Thirteen people were missing on Monday after a boat carrying illegal migrants sank in the Aegean Sea off Turkey’s western coast, the Turkish coastguard said. Two migrants swam to shore not far from the coastal town of Dikili in Izmir province after their boat sank, the coastguard said in a statement, adding that a search

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Somali security forces conduct search operations in Mogadishu

Somali police officers have been conducting search operations overnight in Mogadishu, where over the last few days the killings. The forces have explored the KM13 and Garasbeley camps in Mogadishu and searched every house. Residents say the troops were searching a house, asking questions. Some reports indicate that the operation was carried out by different

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Somali President orders army commanders to complete a comprehensive report on the security and bombings Friday

The President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, has called on the Force Commander to come up with a complete report on the security and the recent explosions that occurred on Friday. Dead rises 60 innocent people, Commander-in-Chief of the National Constituent Assembly, Chief of the Army Major General Dahir

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Erdogan, Trump meet over dinner in French capital

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump chatted for a while on Saturday during a dinner hosted by the French leader. Erdogan arrived in Paris on Saturday at the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron to attend the Armistice Day commemorations. The dinner was given by Macron in the honor of

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Eritrea, Ethiopia pledge to respect Somalia’s sovereignty

The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea have pledged to respect the ‘sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence’ of Somalia, following a second tripartite meeting, held in the Ethiopian city of Bahir Dar. In a joint statement issued after the meeting of Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed, Eritrea’s Isaias Afwerki and Somalia’s Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo agreed to consolidate

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Jo Johnson says colleagues are considering their position over Brexit

LONDON (Reuters) – Former minister Jo Johnson said some colleagues were “reflecting hard” on whether to quit over Theresa May’s Brexit plan after his dramatic resignation threw the British prime minister’s deal into jeopardy. The junior transport minister, who is the younger brother of former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, issued a searing critique of May’s

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Turkey shared recordings of Khashoggi’s murder with Saudi, US, Germany, France, Britain: Erdoğan

Turkey has given recordings on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia, the United States, Germany, France and Britain, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday. Turkish sources have said previously that authorities have an audio recording purportedly documenting the murder. “We gave the recordings, we gave them to Saudi Arabia, we

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joint satament of Bahr Dar meeting Between the Leaders of Eithopia, Somalia and Eritrea

The leaders of Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, and President Isaias Afwerki held a series of consultation in Bahr Dar,Ethiopia on November 9-10,2018. The three sides stressed that this their second meeting in as many months, Highlights the historic transformation towards peace and integration in the horn of

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Saudi scholar urges US to review ties with Saudi Arabia

A Saudi scholar urged the U.S. to reconsider its support for Saudi Arabia after the murder of a Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. In an article titled “Why the U.S. Can’t Control MBS [Mohammad bin Salman]” for the Foreign Affair Magazine, Madawi Al-Rasheed, a visiting professor at the Middle East Centre of the London School

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