Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, centre, sits with Spain’s acting Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares, left and European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell at the start of an EU foreign ministers meeting in Toledo, central Spain, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. EU foreign ministers are gathering for a one-day informal meeting in Toledo. (AP Photo/Andrea

By Anadolu Agency Rwanda and Cameroon announced major changes in their security forces Wednesday affecting high-ranking military personnel. In Rwanda, President Paul Kagame retired hundreds of soldiers in a move that followed promotions of a number of young soldiers in the country’s security apparatus and appointments of new generals to head army divisions stationed in

North Korean leader Kim Jong visits the training center of the General Staff Department of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) in an undisclosed location in North Korea in this picture released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and obtained by Reuters on August 31, 2023. KCNA via Reuters By Reuters North Korea conducted

Defence Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale By Business Daily Africa Kenya received Sh6.98 billion in reimbursement for its troops fighting Al-Shabaab militia in Somalia in the financial year that ended June, which translates to a 93 percent jump ahead of full withdrawal from the peacekeeping mission in under two years. The refunds from the African Union

Gabon Military Officers. Credit Photo/AFP By Reuters A group of senior military officers in Gabon claimed they had seized power in the early hours of Wednesday, minutes after the Central African state’s election body announced that President Ali Bongo had won a third term. The officers said on television channel Gabon 24 that they represented

By Anadolu Agency Ground penetrating radar has unearthed 79 potential children’s graves and those that may be of 14 infants at the former Beauval Indian Residential School in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, English River First Nation said Tuesday. “This is not a final number. It breaks my heart that there are likely more,” English

The government of Somalia has signed a $92.6 million development agreement with the United States government to promote resilience, stability, economic growth, and governance. The minister of planning of the government of Somalia, Mohamoud Abdirahman, one of the ministers who signed this agreement, said that this economic agreement is important for the recovery of the

By Xinhua News Agency The African Union and United Nations officials have called on Somalia to ensure that the hard-won security gains thus far are not jeopardized as the AU forces continue with the drawdown in the country. Acting head of the AU peace support operations division Zinurine Alghali called on all stakeholders to ensure

By Reuters Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Russia soon to discuss the collapsed United Nations deal that had allowed Black Sea exports of Ukrainian grain, a spokesperson for Turkey’s ruling AK Party said on Monday. The UN- and Turkey-brokered deal lasted a year but ended last month after Moscow quit. Ankara is seeking to

General Abdourahmane Tiani, who was declared as the new head of state of Niger Reuters/Balima Boureima/File Photo By XINHUA The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) is climbing down from the initial peak of military intervention in Niger, seeing instead a possibility of diplomatic solution. Since July 26, Niger has been in the eye