A South Sudan activist in the US is charged with trying to illegally export arms for coup back home

File- Peter Biar Ajak gives an interview upon his arrival at Washington Dulles International Airport, July 23, 2020, in Chantilly, Va. Ajak, a leading South Sudanese academic and activist living in exile in the United States, has been charged in Arizona along with a Utah man born in the African nation on charges of conspiring

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Somalia and Turkey discussed energy cooperation

The Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey, Alparslan Bayraktar and Abdirisaq Omar Mohamed, the Minister of Petroleum and Minerals of Somalia, discussed the energy cooperation between the two countries. Bayraktar received the Minister of Petroleum and Minerals Abdirisaq Omar at his ministry in the capital Ankara. Read: Why is Somalia an unfortunate country?

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Yemen’s Houthis say they targeted 2 US warships in Red Sea

By Anadolu Agency Yemen’s Houthi group announced Tuesday that they carried out a military operation in the Red Sea against US warships. ‘‘Yemen’s armed forces targeted two US warships with missiles and drones,” Yahya Saree, the group’s military spokesperson, said in a statement, without providing further details. There has been no immediate comment from the

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Russia says rising economic bloc BRICS surpasses G7 in purchasing power parity

By Anadolu Agency Russian presidential aide for foreign affairs Yury Ushakov said on Tuesday that the BRICS countries do not compete with the West but have already outdone the G7 in terms of purchasing power parity. Ushakov said in an interview with Russian state news agency TASS that cooperation with the BRICS economic bloc is

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UK plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda suffers first parliamentary defeats

Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks outside 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, March 1, 2024. Photographer Belinda Jiao/File Photo By Reuters British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered his first defeats over his legislation to send asylum seekers to Rwanda after the upper house of parliament demanded greater protections to be introduced before deportation flights

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East African Community’s Currency Conundrum: The Sheafra Saga

The proposed “fake” East African Sheafra. Photo Credit: EastAfricaGov By The African Exponent In a world where digital information zips across the globe in the blink of an eye, the truth often finds itself in a gripping race against fiction. This was vividly illustrated in the recent hullabaloo surrounding the proposed East African Community (EAC)

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Germany and Russia spar over a leaked audio on missiles for Ukraine. Berlin promises to investigate

File-In this photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, a Taurus missile flies during a drill off the country’s western coast in South Korea, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. The German government on Monday vehemently rejected allegations that Russia’s leak of a conversation by high-ranking German military officers was an indication that Germany was preparing a

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Saudi Arabia extends voluntary cut of oil production

Credit Photo Reuters/Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman By Xinhua News Agency Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday the extension of its voluntary cut of oil production of 1 million barrels per day to support the stability and balance of oil markets, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The reduction was implemented in July 2023 until

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Ruto uses back channels to ease Ethiopia, Somalia tensions

By The East African Kenya’s President William Ruto has engaged a higher gear for back channels to ease tension between Ethiopia and Somalia, motivated by business fervor in both countries. And, from this week, both Addis and Mogadishu are expected to tone down their public rhetoric against each other, sources privy to the discussions indicated.

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Houthis accuse US, UK of disrupting Red Sea communication cables

By Anadolu Agency Houthi Yemeni group accused on Saturday the US and UK of causing an outage in international communication cables in the Red Sea. This came in a statement issued by the Ministry of Transportation in the Houthi government (not internationally recognized), published by the Saba News Agency affiliated with the group. “The hostile

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