A U.S.-led international training mission for African militaries in Diffa, Niger, March 2014 Joe Penney / Reuters By Marcus Hicks, Kyle Atwell, and Dan Collini The United States Needs to Think Regionally to Win Under President Donald Trump, the United States withdrew troops and resources from Africa as part of a broader national security shift

File Photo/Somali Times There may be a delay in the meeting called by President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo. At Thursday 04 March 2021 a meeting is scheduled for Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, who called on regional and Benadir regional leaders to attend to finalize the 2021 election talks. The Governor of Puntland Said Deni and

File – This Dec. 29, 2019, aerial file photo taken from a helicopter shows Ain al-Asad air base in the western Anbar desert, Iraq. At least 10 rockets targeted a military base in western Iraq that hosts U.S.-led coalition troops on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, the coalition and the Iraqi military said. It was not immediately

The former international development secretary Andrew Mitchell said ‘cutting aid is a death sentence’. Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA By Patrick Wintour Aid agencies say they are being forced to prepare to suspend health clinics in Somalia serving as many as 2,000 women and children a month, after they have been warned they may face cuts

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has confirmed in a statement that it will hear the case of Somalia and Kenya again in March. The Hague tribunal said the trial would begin at 3:00 pm on March 15, 2021, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands. ”Given the status of the COVID-19 pandemic, the

Photo/Somali Times Former Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdurashid Ali Sharmarke, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed and Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame stoically defended the Memorandum of Understanding agreement. They says it is necessary to show cooperation between neighboring states in order to demonstrate Somalia’s claim for an extension of its continental shelf. Which rejects the Somali parliament and International

Credit Associated Press Michel Euler, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy PARIS (AP) — The verdict is expected on Monday in a landmark corruption and influence-peddling trial that has put French former President Nicolas Sarkozy at risk of a prison sentence if he is convicted. Sarkozy, who was president from 2007 to 2012, firmly denied all

President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday said he will “immediately terminate” a bilateral military deal with Washington if US nuclear weapons are dumped in the Philippines. “I have made a declaration that we will adopt an independent foreign policy… I assured China that I will not allow nuclear armaments of America to be stored in the

Credit: Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Saturday said his administration would make an announcement on Saudi Arabia on Monday, following a U.S. intelligence report that found Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had approved the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Biden administration has faced some

The Israeli-owned cargo ship, Helios Ray, sits docked in port after arriving earlier in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. The ship has been damaged by an unexplained blast at the gulf of Oman on Thursday. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili) By ISABEL DEBRE An Israeli-owned cargo ship that suffered a mysterious explosion in the