Angola freezes assets of ex-president’s daughter over corruption allegations

Photo Credit Reuters Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and head of state energy giant Sonangol An Angolan court has ordered the freezing of assets held by former president Eduardo dos Santos’ daughter Isabel, state news agency Angop reported on Tuesday, the latest high-profile case in the government’s anti-corruption

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Farah Maalim has warned against any plans by Kenya to invade Somalia

Photo Credit Facebook Former Speaker of the National Assembly Farah Maalim According to Hivisasa Former Lagdera MP Farah Maalim has warned against any plans by Kenya to invade Somalia. This is after Prof Makau Mutua called for the dismemberment of Somalia following Saturday’s horrific car implosion that left at least 95 people dead in Mogadishu.

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Hate crimes charges against man accused in Hanukkah stabbing

Grafton Thomas is led from Ramapo Town Hall in Ramapo, N.Y. following his arraignment Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019. Thomas was charged in the stabbings of multiple people as they gathered to celebrate Hanukkah at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, an Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City. (Seth Harrison/The Journal News via AP) Handwritten

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UAE targets Somalia-Turkey relations with Mogadishu bombing – columnist

UAE Mohammed bin Zayed ordered the attack that killed 95 in Somalia. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is behind Saturday’s car bombing in Somalia’s Mogadishu, which left at least 95 people dead, Yeni Şafak columnist İbrahim Karagül wrote on Sunday. The UAE’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is involved in the civil

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Somalia’s spy agency Nisa blames ‘foreign country to Mogadishu deadly attacks

Somalia’s spy agency NISA and the Office of the National Security Advisor have both directed responsibility and blame to actors outside the country over the deadly Ex-Control truck bombing as the opposition warns such a move amounts to ‘cooperation with Al-Shabaab.’ The National Security Advisor Abdisaid Ali, who has in the wake of such attacks

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Top Iraq militia chief warns of tough response to U.S. air strikes

A combination of images depicts what the U.S. military says are bases of the Kataib Hezbollah militia group that were struck by U.S. forces, in the city of Al-Qa’im, Iraq December 29, 2019 is seen in this handout picture provided by the U.S. Department of Defense. U.S. Department of Defense/Handout via REUTERS A top Iraqi

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The latest: Death toll rises to 95 as people still missing following Mogadishu truck bomb attack

Photo/Somali Times Somali government has revealed 25 people are still missing following a deadly truck bombing in the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu. The latest report Villa Somalia Monday morning the number of those missing following the Ex-Control truck bombing stands. According to official government figures from hospitals Sunday, 137 people were admitted to various

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US air strikes target al-Shabaab after Mogadishu bombing

American military says four ‘terrorists’ killed in operation carried out in coordination with Somali government. The US military has said it carried out airstrikes in Somalia that killed four “terrorists” of the al-Shabaab militant group following the deaths of at least 79 people in a car bombing in Mogadishu. “In coordination with the federal government

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‘The Somali government’s attention is not focused on defeating al Shabaab’

Photo/ Somali Times The huge resources deployed to prop up Somalia’s central government are not being used where they are most needed in the fight against al Shabaab, says Horn of Africa expert Matthew Bryden, a day after Somalia’s deadliest attack in two years. A massive car bomb exploded in a busy area of Mogadishu

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5 stabbed at rabbi’s house on Hanukkah; suspect in custody

An onlooker stands outside a rabbi’s residence in Monsey, N.Y., Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, following a stabbing Saturday night during a Hanukkah celebration. (AP Photo/Julius Constantine Motal) A man stabbed and wounded five people as they gathered at a rabbi’s home north of New York City to celebrate Hanukkah, in an attack that the governor

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