In this Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, file photo, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, center, arrives for the opening session of the 33rd African Union (AU) Summit at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ahmed left Ethiopians breathless when he became the prime minister in 2018, introducing a wave of political reforms in the long-repressive

FILE – In this Nov. 10, 2020 file photo British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File) By Nicholas Cecil Boris Johnson was today hit with a wave of protests over plans being discussed for Britain to cuts its spending on overseas aid as the world reels from

Capital city of Tigray Region in Ethiopia. Mekele Ethiopian troops are battling rebellious forces from the country’s northern Tigray region. Fallout from the conflict in Africa’s second most-populous nation is already spilling over into Ethiopia’s neighbours, threatening to further destabilise a fragile region. ERITREA – Three missiles fired by Tigrayan forces slammed into the Eritrean

In this Nov. 13, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) By Elizabeth Shackelford Biden should bring our troops home. With Donald Trump’s relevance to our foreign policy future diminishing by the day, his recent demands to get US soldiers out

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks to the media during an Election Night watch party in St. Paul, Minn., Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (Leila Navidi/Star Tribune via AP) U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar is cutting ties with her husband’s political consulting firm after winning her bid for reelection, saying she wants to ensure her supporters feel

Somali spy chief Fahad Yasin By Michael Rubin Somalia has become a money pit for the United States. In recent years, the U.S. government has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars annually into the country. Just one month ago, Ambassador Donald Yamamoto and Somali Minister of Finance Abdirahman Duale Beyle signed a deal to reduce

Conflict in the north of Africa’s second-most-populous nation is spreading across borders, threatening stability in a strategy Long-simmering tensions between Ethiopia’s federal government and defiant authorities in its northern Tigray region erupted into military confrontation on Nov. 4 after the country’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, accused the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF, of attacking

Al Shabaab is making maximum use of the Somali culture of corruption to expand its economic power. From there al Shabaab expects it will have another chance to take control of the entire country. The main thing stopping them is not the local security forces and foreign peacekeepers but the strong sense of independence and

Photo/Somali Times Somalia has reopened its Nairobi embassy premises, 10 years after Mogadishu won a court case against a private Kenyan businessman who had bought it illegally during the civil war. The premises initially purchased in 1972, in Nairobi’s Westlands area, were renovated over the past two years under the tenure of Somalia Ambassador Mohamoud

Turkish envoy says Somali youth key to prosperous future of vibrant media, information, culture Turkey and Somalia plan to further enhance cooperation in media and information, Turkey’s envoy to the Horn of Africa country said on Sunday. Ambassador Mehmet Yilmaz met with Osman Obokar Dubbe, the Horn of Africa nation’s Minister of information, culture and