Smoke billows following Israeli strikes over Beirut’s southern suburbs, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon, September 28, 2024. Photographer Mohamed Azakir By Reuters The Israeli military said on Saturday it had killed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on the group’s central headquarters in

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during the General Debate of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the UN headquarters in New York, on Sept. 27, 2024. Netanyahu on Friday said at the United Nations General Assembly that there would be no immediate truce in his country’s rapidly

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer holds a bilateral meeting with Crown Prince of Kuwait Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah (not seen) at the United Nations on September 26, 2024 in New York, U.S. Leon Neal/Pool via Reuters By Reuters Britain’s Labour government is reconsidering part of its plan to toughen up tax rules on wealthy foreigners

The government has announced that there is no hope that Somalia and Ethiopia will meet face to face to discuss the maritime crisis. Read: Somalia Foreign Minister Fiqi says Ethiopia PM Abiy Ahmed has killed one million of his own people The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia, Ahmed Moalim Fiqi, said that Ethiopia has

Questioned whether Abiy will recover from his mistake at a time when the tension is getting worse The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia, Mr Ahmed Fiqi , who gave a special interview to outlet media, said against the Ethiopian government, especially the Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, with whom there is a strong tension. Fiqi

By Anadolu Agency Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that the share of the ruble in export payments increased almost threefold to 39% from 2021 to 2023. He said at a meeting of the Russian State Council in Moscow that the share of payments for exports in so-called “toxic Western currencies,” meanwhile, halved last year.

Photo illustration by John Lyman International Policy Digest By Nick Kimble In recent months, tensions have flared dramatically across the Horn of Africa, with the arrival of Egyptian troops in Somalia signaling what could escalate into a regional war. The friction between Ethiopia’s contentious sea access agreement with Somaliland and the decades-long disputes over the

By Anadolu Agency The US announced Monday that it is sending a “small number” of additional forces to the Middle East as Israel dramatically increased airstrikes across Lebanon prompting unprecedented Hezbollah retaliatory strikes. The US has about 40,000 troops stationed in the region, and Pentagon spokesperson Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder did not specify how many

Tanzania’s main opposition party CHADEMA’s chairman Freeman Mbowe flashes a two-finger salute as he is detained by Tanzania police during the protests to condemn a series of kidnappings and murders within the Magomeni area of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, September 23, 2024. Photographer Emmanuel Herman By Reuters Tanzanian police arrested two opposition leaders again on

File Photo/Somali Times Sources in the port of Mogadishu have confirmed to Somali Times that last night the Somali government landed a ship with a large number of weapons of all kinds. Read: Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh history of corruption 2012-2017 Read: Somalia Hassan Sheikh’s government is facing a widespread financial crisis and the causes