Face-to-face talks will take place between Hassan Sheikh and Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed in Turkey

File Photo/Somali Times Corrupt Somali President Hassan Sheikh is expected to travel to Turkey today, as Somali Times has learned. Read: Jubaland issues arrest warrant for corrupt Somalia President Hassan Sheikh The corrupt Somali president’s trip comes after receiving an invitation from his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Read: Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh history of

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Rights groups raise alarm over Kenya’s decline in civic rights

By Kenyan foreign policy Leading human rights organizations have expressed concern over Kenya’s worsening score in civic freedoms under President William Ruto’s administration. The December report by Civicus, a global alliance of civil society organizations, highlights an alarming decline in civic freedoms across Sub-Saharan Africa. According to the People Power Under Attack 2024 report, Kenya’s

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Equinor completes Nigeria, Azerbaijan asset sales of up to $2 billion

The logo of Equinor is set up at the entrance of a building at Western Europe’s largest liquefied natural gas plant Hammerfest LNG in Hammerfest, Norway, March 14, 2024. Photoghrapher Lisi Niesner/File Photo By Reuters Equinor, opens new tab has closed the planned sale of its assets in Nigeria and Azerbaijan for a total consideration

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Syria’s deposed president arrives with his family in Moscow, as Russia offers them asylum

Credit Photo/Facebook By Anadolu Agency Syria’s deposed President Bashar al-Assad, and his family on Sunday arrived in Moscow, where Russia offered them asylum, Russian state news agency reported. “Assad and his family members arrived in Moscow. Being guided by humanitarian considerations, Russia has granted asylum for them,” TASS said, citing a Kremlin source. Read: Syrian

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Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad regime collapses

Sixty-one years of Baath Party rule in Syria collapsed on Sunday when the capital Damascus fell out of the hands of regime control. The Arab Socialist Baath Party had come to power in Syria in 1963, in a coup. In 1970, Hafez al-Assad – the father of Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s newly deposed ruler – seized

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Russian bases in Syria threatened by insurgent advance, say Moscow’s war bloggers

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu watch servicemen passing by as they visit the Hmeymim air base in Latakia Province, Syria December 11, 2017. Photographer Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik via Reuters/File Photo By Reuters Two strategically-important Russian military facilities in Syria and Moscow’s very presence in the Middle East are under serious threat

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Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad on the verge of escape

Lieutenant General Hassan Abdul Ghani, a member of the opposition’s military operations department, announced on Telegram today that “the forces are now less than 20 kilometers from the southern gate of the capital Damascus.” Abdul Ghani said on Telegram: “Our forces have entered the city of Al-Sanameyn, north of Daraa, and announced that they have

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Romania’s Constitutional Court annuls presidential run-off, results of 1st round

By Anadolu Agency Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled the presidential run-off scheduled for Dec. 8, and the results of the 1st round of the Nov. 24 election, local media reported on Friday. The electoral process will be resumed in its entirety, with the government setting a new date for the election of the president, said the

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Xi stresses building strong, modernized information support force

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, meets representatives when inspecting the information support force of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on Dec. 4, 2024. Photographer Li Gang By Xinhua News Agency Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for

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World trade at new peak but 2025 uncertain amid US tariff threat

Cargo ships and containers are seen at Qingdao port in Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong province, Dec. 4, 2024. Photo/ AFP By AFP Global trade has hit a new peak this year but faces an uncertain outlook in 2025 because of the threat of trade wars, the United Nations said on Thursday. The U.N. trade

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