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Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni’s son arrives in Mogadishu helping the Hawiye community

Photo/Somali Times/Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni’s evil son Muhoozi Kainerugaba. Ugnada’s ‘dictator’ Yoweri Museveni, his son the Commander of the Ugandan Infantry, Lt. General Muhoozi Kainerugaba and other Ugandan military officials led by him arrived in Mogadishu today and held separate meetings with Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo and Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble. General Muhoozi

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US officials: Biden aide to meet Saudi crown prince on Yemen

President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media as he arrives at the White House in Washington, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021, after returning from a weekend at Camp David. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) By Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan is traveling to Saudi Arabia on Monday to

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China sends new fleet on Gulf of Aden escort mission

The supply ship Qinghaihu of China’s 13th naval escort fleet departs from a port in Zhanjiang, South China’s Guangdong province, to the Gulf of Aden and Somali waters for escort missions, Nov 9, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua] The 39th fleet of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy set out from the city of Qingdao, in east

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Priti Patel’s Political Paradox: The effect on Refugees and those Seeking Asylum

Refugees By African Exponent What this means for future refugees? Across recent headlines, Priti Patel came under fire for her inability to solve the so-called “Channel Crisis” as a record (for this year) 828 people arrived in the month of August 2021. This was highlighted by rising tensions between the Home Secretary and her French

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Taliban hang body in public; signal return to past tactics

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT – A dead body hangs from a crane in the main square of Herat city in western Afghanistan, on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2021. A witness told The Associated Press that the bodies of four men were brought to the main square and three of them were moved to other parts of

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Is it a bluff? Some in Hungary and Poland talk of EU pullout

FILE – In this May 21, 2017 file photo, supporters of Hungary’s political opposition display a banner during an anti-government protest, at Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Budapest, Hungary. When Hungary and Poland joined the European Union in 2004, after decades of Communist domination, they thirsted for Western democratic standards and prosperity. Yet

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German millionaires rush assets to Switzerland ahead of election

Women relax on the banks of Lake Zurich on a sunny spring day, as the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues, in Zurich, Switzerland March 23, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann. Reuters By Oliver Hirt A potential lurch to the left in Germany’s election on Sunday is scaring millionaires into moving assets into Switzerland, bankers and tax

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Examining Extremism: Harakat al Shabaab al Mujahideen (al Shabaab)

Center for Strategic and International Studies By Jake Harrington, Jared Thompson The resumption of U.S. airstrikes in Somalia in July 2021 after a six-month pause under the Biden administration is renewing focus on Harakat al Shabaab al Mujahideen, al Qaeda’s affiliate in East Africa more commonly known as al Shabaab. For nearly two decades, al

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Taiwan asks to join trade group, says China might interfere

File – In this Aug. 6, 2015, file photo, fishing boats are secured in a port during foul weather in Yilan County, northeastern Taiwan. Taiwan has applied to join an 11-nation Pacific trade group, Cabinet officials said Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021, setting up a potential clash with rival Beijing over the status of the island

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Algeria closes airspace to Moroccan aviation as dispute deepens

Algerian upper house chairman Abdelkader Bensalah is pictured after being appointed as interim president by Algeria’s parliament, following the resignation of Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers, Algeria April 9, 2019. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina/File Photo By Reuters Algeria’s supreme security council decided on Wednesday to close the country’s airspace to all Moroccan civil and military aircraft, the Algerian

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