Former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during the Sandy Hook Promise Benefit in New York City, U.S., December 6, 2022. Reuters/David ‘Dee’ Delgado By Reuters Russia’s foreign ministry on Friday said former President Barack Obama was among 500 U.S. citizens who would be banned in response to the latest round of sanctions announced by Washington.

Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki (L) shakes hands with Chinese Premier Li Qiang prior to their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 15, 2023. Photographer Florence Lo/AFP By The East African Eritrea has got a new boost in search for global allies after its leader Isaias Afwerki made a state

File Photo Somali Times/Somalia President Hassan Sheikh discussing senior officials to sell embassy properties Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud wants to sell all the properties of Somali embassies abroad, according to reliable sources in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Somali Times. Our sources add shady president Hassan Sheikh intends to sell embassies properties assets

Photo/Somali Times Somalia shady President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, who is in Saudi Arabia, held a meeting with Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killer Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Read: Why is Somalia an unfortunate country? President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, discussed

By Anadolu Agency Russia is seeking new partners to promote agricultural and industrial cooperation, and create transport and logistics chains, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, highlighting the “significant role” of Russian Muslims in expanding his country’s international contacts. Putin’s remarks came in a statement read at the meeting of the Group of Strategic

File – Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong listens beside Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo during a joint press conference at a hotel in Makati City, Philippines on Thursday May 18, 2023. An 88-year-old Australian doctor held captive in West Africa for more than seven years has been released, the Australian government said on Friday,

By Reuters Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to announce a ban on Russian diamonds and imports of metals from Russia including copper, aluminium and nickel in support for Ukraine, his government said in a statement. Britain is also targeting an additional 86 people and companies from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military industrial complex, in

By Business Daily Africa Kenya plans to build three more ships to enhance the export of oil products to Uganda through Lake Victoria. Energy and Petroleum Cabinet Secretary Davis Chirchir said this would ensure daily trips from the current weekly voyages to the landlocked country. Despite being launched in early January, Kenya has only shipped

File Photo/Somali Times The federal government of Somalia announced yesterday that it expelled two men born in Germany and Poland, named Jocek Jozef Ochman and Ralf Bernhard Gehlig. The government did not officially announce at the time why two foreign men were expelled from the country, but an investigation it found out that these two

By Anadolu Agency At least 39 people are missing after a Chinese vessel capsized in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, Chinese state media reported. The missing persons include 17 Chinese crew members, 17 Indonesians, and five Filipinos, Chinese public broadcaster CGTN reported on Wednesday. It said the vessel was a Chinese fishing boat which “capsized