Philippines Vice President Maria Leonor Robredo speaks beside Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Director General Aaron Aquino during her first meeting with a drug war task force after President Rodrigo Duterte appointed her as its co-head, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, November 8, 2019. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez The opposition leader put in charge of Philippine President

Leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement In Opposition (SPLM-IO) Riek Machar shakes hands with South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir after a tripartite summit on the revitalised agreement on resolutions of the conflict in South Sudan, at the State House in Entebbe, Uganda, November 7, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer South Sudan’s president and a former rebel leader

The Kenyan woman swallowed cocaine weighing 1.2 kilograms, officials said Thai authorities are holding a Kenyan woman for allegedly attempting to smuggle more than a kilo of cocaine in her stomach into the country. The woman, whose identity is yet to be revealed, was arrested at Suvarnabhumi airport after arriving into the country from Angola,

Congolese militia commander Bosco Ntaganda is seen in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands November 7, 2019. Peter Dejong/Pool via REUTERS The International Criminal Court sentenced former Congolese military leader Bosco Ntaganda on Thursday to 30 years in prison for atrocities including murder, rape and conscripting child soldiers. Ntaganda,

Xinhua, China’s state news agency, reported that the satellite was launched on Sunday from the northern Chinese province of Shanxi [Reuters] Sudan’s first-ever satellite to carry out research in military, economic and space technology has been launched by China, the African country’s governing council said. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of Sudan’s sovereign council, announced

Photo/Somali Times Speaker Abdi Hakim Dhobo Garowe. The meeting of the 53 sitting MPs, 49 members voted for the dismissal of the speaker, while 4 members abstained, so the speaker’s office. 44 MPs filed a motion to dismiss the commissioner on Wednesday night, accusing him of committing violations of the Constitution and the Rules of

US Ambassador to Kenya Kyle McCarter US Ambassador to Kenya Kyle McCarter on Monday threw a jab at Chinese relations with Kenya, suggesting it is heavily skewed in favour of the Asian economic giant and saddles the latter with debt. Mr McCarter, speaking at the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Business Summit in Nairobi, at

Safiya Khalid speaks at a candidates forum at Geiger Elementary School in Lewiston, Maine. Lewiston, a city in Maine that is home to thousands of African newcomers, elected Khalid, a Somali American to its city council after she soundly defeated a fellow Democrat on Tuesday. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal via AP) The second-largest city in Maine,

Photo/Somali Times Mogadishu, Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire and Minister of Foreign Affairs Denmark, Jeppe Sebastian today arrived in Mogadishu at the meeting discussed cooperation and strengthening relations inherent in both countries and maintain the support of the re-Denmark country recovery. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, thanked the wide reception, said the partnership between the

Thai forensic experts examine the site where village defence volunteers were killed by suspected separatist insurgents in Yala province, south Thailand, November 6, 2019. REUTERS/Surapan Boonthanom Suspected separatist insurgents stormed a security checkpoint in Thailand’s Muslim-majority south and killed at least 15 people, including a police officer and many village defense volunteers, security officials said