British Pound Sterling banknotes are seen in a box at the Money Service Austria company’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria, November 16, 2017.REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger By David Milliken, Andy Bruce Britain’s massive public borrowing began to head downwards last month for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, bolstered by a brightening economic outlook

File – In this Thursday Sept. 21, 2006, file photo, Mali’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Moctar Ouane addresses the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters. Mutinous soldiers arrested Mali’s transitional President Bah N’Daw and Prime Minister Ouane, Monday, May 24, 2021, hours after a government

The ‘Bayraktar TB2’ (Armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) is seen in Istanbul, Turkey on February 22, 2021. ( BAYKAR – Anadolu Agency ) Turkey, Poland ‘walking firmly’ towards $10B bilateral trade volume target, says President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkey is set to export unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Poland, in what will be “the first time

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks at a news conference at his office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia August 1, 2019. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo Ethiopia accused the United States on Monday of meddling in its affairs after Washington announced restrictions on economic and security assistance over alleged human rights abuses during the conflict in the northern

Photo/Somali Times The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Federal Government of Somalia, Mohamed Abdirizak Mohamud Abubakar, on Monday paid tribute to the outgoing Qin Jian, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the Federal Republic of Somalia in Mogadishu. The Minister thanked the outgoing Chinese Ambassador for his outstanding work

British national Kenneth Daniel Kutsch, right, and Italian national Francesco D’alesio, walk as they are shown to the media during a police press conference in Badung, Bali, Indonesia, Monday, May 24, 2021. The British hotel owner and the Italian tourist were arrested for alleged possession of narcotics on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, police announced

A Ryanair aircraft, which was carrying Belarusian opposition blogger and activist Roman Protasevich and diverted to Belarus, where authorities detained him, lands at Vilnius Airport in Vilnius, Lithuania May 23, 2021. REUTERS/Andrius Sytas By Reuters Western politicians accused Belarus on Monday of state piracy amounting to a “warlike act”, searching for a way to retaliate

Margaret Gecaga. By SAM KIPLAGAT President Uhuru Kenyatta’s brother-in-law Udi Gecaga is locked in a new court battle over the ownership of eight properties in Nairobi’s Muthaiga with his stepmother, who faced eviction from one of the homes. The Court of Appeal has allowed Margaret Gacigi Gecaga to challenge the arbitration ruling that gave Udi

File Photo of Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed(L) and Isaias Afewerki ( Minasse Wondimu Hailu – Anadolu Agency ) The United States has begun restricting visas for people undermining efforts to resolve the deadly fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, saying it is time for the international community to take action in a conflict that has sparked

File Photo/Somali Times The third day of the annual consultation between the national government and state governors, which seek elections from 2021. The sensitive meeting is a sign of optimism that the ongoing electoral talks will succeed. The conference was different from previous ones and that it was now politically mature, there is a rapprochement