Fowsia Yusuf Haji Adan Member of Parliament who held a press conference in Mogadishu today announced that she will not give up her candidacy for the chair of the African Union whose election will be held next year in 2025. Read: Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh history of corruption 2012-2017 Read: Somalia Hassan Sheikh’s government is

Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Credit Photo/Reuters By Xinhua News Agency Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Monday accused Western countries of adopting “double standards” on democracy, ahead of next month’s general elections in the country. Mr Kagame, who has been President of Rwanda since 2000, was responding to a question about critics who accuse him of

By Reuters Somalia’s government is seeking to slow the withdrawal of African peacekeepers and warning of a potential security vacuum, documents seen by Reuters show, with neighbouring countries fretting that resurgent al Shabaab militants could seize power. The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), a peacekeeping force, is committed to withdrawing by Dec. 31,

By Atlantic Council On June 17, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud met with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Ankara. It was the fourth high-level meeting between the two countries this year, and the pace of dialogue between Somalia and Turkey is set to increase, following two major agreements between Turkey and Somalia signed earlier

File Photo/Somali Times There is still tension in the city of Mogadishu that arose from the area of ​​the School Bulusiya Cemetery, after the Somali government ordered the removal of the bodies, and that decision came into effect, with most of the bodies removed from the area. Read: Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh history of corruption

By Anadolu Agency Russian President Vladimir Putin landed in North Korea’s capital Pyongyang on Tuesday for his first visit to the nation in 24 years, the Kremlin said. The Russian president was invited by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who “personally met Vladimir Putin at the airport in Pyongyang,” the Kremlin said in a

Protestors participate in a demonstration against Kenya’s proposed finance bill 2024/2025 in Nairobi, Kenya, June 18, 2024. Photographer Monicah Mwangi By Reuters A Kenyan parliamentary panel recommended on Tuesday that the government scrap some new taxes proposed as part of next year’s budget, as hundreds of protesters angered by the measures took to the streets

Courtesy of the Pickard family via cnbc By Face2Face Africa Dr. William Pickard hailed from Detroit and became one of America’s most successful Black entrepreneurs. Pickard, 83, who passed away June 12 at his West Palm Beach, Florida home, made his mark in 1971, becoming one of the first Black franchise owners of a McDonald’s

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech outside Number 10 Downing Street, in London, Britain, May 22, 2024. Photographer Toby Melville/File Photo By Reuters Britain’s approval of arms export licences to Israel dropped sharply after the start of the war in Gaza, with the value of permits granted for the sale of military equipment

A section of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline on the Ugandan side. Photo/Pool By The East African More than a year since Chinese financiers and the developers of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop) entered negotiations to bankroll the project’s debt, a massive hole remains in the financing structure as the loans amounting