Photo: Credit Facebook Sammy Mahdi, By Charlotte Oberti In Belgium, 32-year-old Sammy Mahdi, the son of an Iraqi refugee, has just been appointed Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration. He said his goal is to increase deportations. After an extended political crisis that lasted 493 days, Belgium finally formed a government on Wednesday, September

A teenage girl who became a sex worker after schools in Kenya were closed in March due to coronavirus restrictions, sits in the rented room where she and others work, in Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. The girls saw their mothers’ sources of income vanish when Kenya’s government restricted movement to prevent the spread

Photo: Credit Pinterest Ilwad Elman Somali-Canadian peace activist Ilwad Elman has been awarded the 2020 German Africa Prize. The German Africa Foundation has confirmed she will be honored later this month in Berlin by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. She may only be 30, but Ilwad Elman is already considered one of Somalia’s leading voices

President Donald Trump, Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, in Fort Myers, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By Will Krumholz According to anonymous officials, President Trump told his top advisers to draw up plans to get troops out of Somalia. Roughly 800 troops are currently there to help the Somali government fight al Shabab, a terror group and

Kash Patel, a deputy assistant to president, reportedly met secretly with Assad regime officials A White House official traveled to Syria earlier this year to hold secret talks with the Bashar al-Assad regime in a bid to secure the release of American hostages there, according to a report Sunday. Citing officials from President Donald Trump’s

Photo/Somali Times The Federal Government of Somalia has allowed Ethiopian khat to enter Somalia legally, while Kenya remains under a ban on the khat trade. Ethiopian-based National Airways has landed at Aden Adde International Airport and Hargeisa carrying a truckload of khat known as Hereri. It is the first time since the onset of the

Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, the tolerance minister of the United Arab Emirates, speaks to The Associated Press in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The chair of Britain’s Hay literary festival said Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020, that the event will not return to Abu Dhabi after one of the festival’s curators alleged that she

An arms embargo imposed since 2007 by the UN Security Council (UNSC) ended Sunday, according to Iran’s foreign ministry. All restrictions on the transfer of arms, related activities and financial services to and from Iran, and all prohibitions regarding the entry into or transit through territories of the UN member states previously imposed on a

KDF soldier on a patrol in Somalia. The Somalia National Defence Forces will soon have to take over security of their country. The reality of KDF exiting Somalia by 2021 has started taking shape. The Star has established that the troops under Amisom have started gearing up for an exit. This will likely bring to

Abu Dhabi and Ankara have been at odds for several years over foreign policy and attitudes towards religious political groups (AFP) Turkey’s intelligence officials have arrested another man suspected of spying on foreign Arab nationals on behalf of the United Arab Emirates, a senior security official said on Friday. The man confessed to spying on