Photo: Credit Wikipedia dictator Ismail Omar Guelleh. Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh, who recently announced his candidacy for re-election next month, said he had decided to run for a fifth term at the request of the people. The April 23 presidential election. He has ruled the country since 1999. The deadline for registering candidates is

Turkey’s historical, cultural common values with Egypt may bring new developments in coming days: Defense chief It is a very important development that Egypt has made a tender on hydrocarbon exploration in the eastern Mediterranean respecting Turkey’s continental shelf limits, the Turkish national defense minister said on Saturday. “We have many historical and cultural values

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday won a vote of confidence in the lower house of Parliament, the speaker said. Khan won 178 votes in the 341-seat National Assembly, well above the 172 votes he needed to survive. On Wednesday, Khan announced to seek a vote of confidence from Parliament after his party’s unexpected

A medical clinic that was looted and vandalized in Zana, is seen in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. The United Nations in its latest humanitarian report on the situation in Tigray says the “humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate” as fighting intensifies across the northern region. (Medecins Sans Frontieres via AP)

Over past decade, cost of conflict in Syria estimated at $1.2 trillion in GDP, says report by humanitarian group In addition to millions of people dead or displaced, the economic cost of the decade-long Syrian war is more than $1.2 trillion in lost gross domestic product (GDP), according to a new report by a humanitarian

Oil spills By Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza. The environment and its inhabitants have to bear the brunt of such negligence. Africa is a continent that is abundantly blessed with natural resources. But ever since imperialism showed its grim face to the continent through brutal colonial conquests, the control of such natural resources passed from the hands

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