Ruthless Djibouti dictator Ismail Omar Guelleh officially announces his candidacy for a sixth term

File Photo/Somali Times Djibouti dictator Ismail Omar Guelleh has officially announced his candidacy for a sixth term in office in the country’s presidential election scheduled for April 2026, after the Djiboutian parliament recently lifted age and term limits in the constitution. Read: Djibouti people love to see without dictator Ismaïl Omar Guelleh 2025 The ruthless

Read More

Chinese charity celebrates 10th anniversary of school feeding program in Ethiopia

By Xinhua News Agency The China Foundation for Rural Development (CFRD) on Friday marked the 10th anniversary of its “Smiling Children Program” in Ethiopia, which provides daily meals to underprivileged students across the country. Speaking at the ceremony in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, Yin Qian, director of the CFRD Ethiopia Office, said the school feeding

Read More

Trump says Kazakhstan has agreed to join Abraham Accords

By Anadolu Agency US President Donald Trump said Thursday that Kazakhstan has agreed to formally enter into the series of normalization deals he has brokered between Israel and Muslim-majority nations. “Kazakhstan is the first Country of my Second Term to join the Abraham Accords, the first of many. This is a major step forward in

Read More

U.S. Govt issues new travel advisory for Tanzania, warns of arrests and intermitted internet outage

A photo collage of the US President Donald Trump (left) and Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu. Credit Photo New York Post By Kenyans The United States government has issued a fresh travel advisory for Tanzania, warning foreigners against travelling to the war-torn East African country amid lingering political instability. In a notice dated Wednesday, November 5,

Read More

Typhoon kills 66 people, with 400,000 displaced, 26 missing in Philippines

By Anadolu Agency At least 66 people were killed and 26 others remained missing after Typhoon Kalmaegi struck the Philippines, displacing more than 400,000 people, officials said on Wednesday. According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, the death toll rose to 66, including the six involved in Tuesday’s helicopter crash during a

Read More

Xi meets Russian PM in Beijing

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 4, 2025. Photographer Li Xiang By Xinhua News Agency Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Tuesday in Beijing, calling for enhanced cooperation on multiple fronts

Read More

Trump says there ‘could be’ US troops on the ground in Nigeria, or air strikes

A drone view of Christians departing St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church after a Sunday mass in Palmgrove, Lagos, Nigeria November 2, 2025. Photographer Sodiq Adelakun By Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday the U.S. military could deploy troops to Nigeria or carry out air strikes to stop what he called the killing

Read More

UK train stabbings injure nine, police arrest two suspects

Police officers and emergency personnel work at the scene following a stabbing incident at a train station in Huntingdon, Britain, November 2, 2025. Photographer Jack Taylor By Reuters Nine people were treated for life-threatening injuries after a series of stabbings on a train near Cambridge in eastern England on Saturday, and two men were arrested

Read More

Egypt unveils world’s largest museum dedicated to single civilization at grand ceremony

This photo taken on Nov. 1, 2025 shows a drone and light show during the inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Giza, Egypt. After two decades of construction, Egypt on Saturday inaugurated the GEM — the world’s largest museum dedicated to a single civilization — during a grand ceremony held near the pyramids

Read More

North Korea denounces denuclearization as ‘pipe dream’

By Anadolu Agency North Korea’s Vice Foreign Minister Pak Myong-ho denounced on Saturday the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula as a “pipe dream.” “We will show with patience that denuclearization is a ‘pipe dream’ which can never be realized even if it (South Korea) talks about it a thousand times,” Pak said in a statement

Read More