The Council extended the mandate of the EU capacity building mission in Somalia, EUCAP Somalia until 31 December 2020. The Council also agreed on a budget of €66.1 million for the period 1 January 2019 until 31 December 2020. The mission mandate is to enhance Somalia’s maritime civilian law enforcement capacity, through supporting Somali authorities

Qatari dailies on Sunday highlighted the blockade on their county alongside today’s 39th Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Riyadh, which the Qatari emir declined to attend, despite an invitation from Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz. In lieu of Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, only state ministers will represent Qatar at the one-day summit

Addis Ababa-The leaders of Ethiopia, Sudan and Djibouti awarded the Jimma University Hospital. Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed welcomed President Omar Hassan Bashir and Djibouti President Ismael Omar Galle. The hospital has 800 sleeping quarters and more than 20 million people in the southwest of the country. It is also designed to provide medical services

A general view of the U.K. Border crossing in the new Terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport in London, Britain, June 4, 2014. (EPA Photo) The United Kingdom’s tier one visa, known as the “golden visa,” will be suspended on Dec. 7 until new regulations are put in place in 2019, due to exploitation and money

Parliament’s vote on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal will go ahead on Dec. 11, her office said on Thursday, rejecting suggestions from lawmakers that she should seek ways to avoid a defeat so big it might bring down the government. May has been trying to win over critics of an agreement that would keep

Nairobi–The New Somali ambassador to Kenya has presented his credentials in Nairobi on Wednesday. Mohamud Ahmed Nur alias Tarzan presented his diplomatic credentials to Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi state house together with seventeen other envoys. The former mayor of Mogadishu will immediately start his new diplomatic career as ambassador in Somali embassy. The

European Union countries agreed on Wednesday to a far-reaching system to coordinate scrutiny of foreign investments into Europe, notably from China. Under the plan, developed in the wake of a surge in Chinese investments, the European Commission would investigate foreign investments in strategic technologies and infrastructure such as ports or energy networks. Negotiators for the

The United States has renewed a “permanent diplomatic presence” in Somalia, the State Department said, nearly 30 years after the U.S. embassy was closed as a civil war raged in the Horn of Africa country. Somalia has been trying to recover from the conflict that engulfed the country in 1991, when clan warlords overthrew a

Mogadishu-The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ahmed Isse Awad on Tuesday received in his office at the Ministry a copy of the credentials of His Excellency Mr. Mehmet Yilmaz, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Turkey to the Federal Republic of Somalia. The minister exchanged views on several files with the

Saudi Arabia told the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Tuesday that national security concerns meant it “simply will not engage in dispute settlement procedures” in an intellectual property dispute with Qatar, according to a transcript seen by Reuters. The European Union and Turkey supported Qatar’s position at the WTO dispute settlement meeting, while the United