Ethiopian workers let go because of Lebanon’s economic crisis wait outside Ethiopia’s embassy in Beirut (AFP) A court in Lebanon has suspended the implementation of a new contract system for migrant workers that officials said would have paved the way for the abolition of the controversial kafala system. The state Shura Council ruled in favour

Photo/Somali Times The President of Puntland State of Somalia, Said Abdullahi Deni is on his way to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Monday, according to presidential sources. Said Deni will be meeting Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to arrange Ethiopia’s naval base in Bosaso. The Somali Federal Government President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has an

KABUL (Reuters) – A suicide bombing at an education centre in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul killed 24 people including teenage students and wounded dozens more on Saturday, officials said. A Ministry of Interior spokesman, Tariq Arian, said security guards had identified a bomber who detonated explosives in the street outside the Kawsar-e Danish centre. Most of

Afghan security forces have killed Abu Muhsin al-Masri, a senior al Qaeda leader who was on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Most Wanted Terrorists list, Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) said in a tweet late on Saturday. The head of the U.S. National Counter-Terrorism Center, Chris Miller, confirmed al-Masri’s death in a statement, saying

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, left and French president Emmanuel Macron in January this year. Photograph: Michael Sohn/AP Macron’s office says ‘rudeness is not a method’ after Turkish president calls for counterpart to have ‘mental checks’ France said it would recall its envoy to Turkey for consultations following “unacceptable” comments by the Turkish president, Recep

Erdogan’s remarks come after French president describes Islam as ‘religion in crisis all over the world’ The president of Turkey warned on Saturday that Europe was preparing its own end amid rising Islamophobia across the continent. “Europe is preparing its own end with its front against Muslims,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, addressing a meeting of

French products are being removed from shelves at a market, boycotting France as a reaction against the republication of offensive caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in France in Kuwait City, Kuwait on October 24, 2020. ( Jaber Abdulkhaleg – Anadolu Agency ) Several Arab trade groups have announced their boycott of French products in response

Before results are declared by the official election body, opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo (R) is claiming victory ahead of President Alpha COnde. Guinea has been thrown into turmoil following a presidential on October 18 in which President Alpha Condé sought a third term after changing the constitutional term limit via a referendum earlier this

US President Donald Trump announced on Friday a normalisation deal between Sudan and Israel (AFP) US President Donald Trump voiced anger at Ethiopia over its construction of a huge dam on the Nile River and suggested Egypt may destroy it. Trump made the remarks as he announced a normalisation deal between US ally Israel and

President Donald Trump reacts after hanging up a phone call with the leaders of Sudan and Israel, as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, second from left, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, and others applaud in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Oct. 23,