As a designer, Girmay focuses on crafting leather products, creating patterns and sketches for her brand, Shamrock Leather. Photo credit: Ruth Girmay By Face2Face Africa Ethiopian designer Ruth Girmay’s designs serve as her form of activism. As a designer, Girmay focuses on crafting leather products, creating patterns and sketches for her brand, Shamrock Leather. In

Hundreds of members of an elite Somali commando unit on Friday graduated from a training program in Turkey under a bilateral pact on strengthening the Somali Armed Forces, according to Anadolu Agency reported. The elite soldiers of the Gorgor unit trained on how to respond to security challenges in the Horn of Africa nation posed

Members of Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) team work in collaboration with local authorities and community members after a landslide triggered by heavy rains, in Bulambuli District, Uganda, November 28, 2024. Uganda Red Cross Society/Handout via Reuters By Reuters Fifteen people have died and at least 100 more are missing after a landslide triggered by

By Anadolu Agency In a milestone decision, Australia’s Senate on Thursday passed laws to ban children and teenagers from using social media, in the first such decision by any government across the globe. The laws, passed on the last day of the ongoing Senate session, are set to come into force at the end of

Guests and students attend the opening ceremony of the Chinese language training program for Ethiopian professional tour guides in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, on Nov. 26, 2024. Photographer Liu Fangqiang By Xinhua News Agency The Ethiopian Ministry of Tourism and the Chinese Embassy in Ethiopia have launched a Chinese language training program for Ethiopian

File Photo/Somali Times The Kismayo District Court has issued an arrest warrant and summons for Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, son of Mother Suban Sabrie Ahmed. Read: Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh history of corruption 2012-2017 “The Kismayo District Court has accepted. Read: Abdirahman Irro elected to lead the Hargeisa administration The above-mentioned request from the

Police stop and search people during the Notting Hill Carnival in London, Britain August 27, 2018. Photographer Henry Nicholls/File Photo By Reuters Britain’s police complaints watchdog has called on Wednesday for urgent measures to stop the “adultification” of Black children and young people during interactions with officers, including in cases of stop and search and

File Photo/Somali Times The Somali regional state of Puntland has spoken out about the decision of the Somalia president Hassan Sheikh kicks off a civil war again in Jubaland 2024, which issued a resolution the night before against the Jubaland elections and a decision to prosecute leader of Jubaland Ahmed Mohamed Islam. Read: Somalia’s president

By Anadolu Agency Sweden supports the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Tuesday. In a press conference, Kristersson mentioned that he would meet with the leaders of NATO countries, including Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Poland, for a two-day working session in

The undated file photo shows the boat, named Sea Story, which sank in the Red Sea near Marsa Alam, the Red Sea Province, Egypt, on Nov. 25, 2024. Four Egyptians and 12 foreigners were still missing after a boat sank in the Red Sea earlier in the day, Governor of Egypt’s Red Sea Province Amr