If the current chemicals used for Al-Shabaab’s homemade explosives become scarce, the group would shift to other sources of explosive materials or precursors, possibly through illicit smuggling, the Chair of the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolution 751 (1992) concerning Somalia said during a 9 June videoconference meeting*. Updating the Council on the Committee’s work

Protesters tore down a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis along Richmond, Virginia’s famed Monument Avenue on Wednesday night. The statue in the former capital of the Confederacy was toppled shortly before 11 p.m., news outlets reported. Richmond police were on the scene and videos on social media showed the monument being towed away as

Aden Farah replaces Keria Ibrahim as speaker of House of Federation The upper house of Ethiopia’s parliament elected a new speaker on Wednesday. A majority of members of the House of Federation voted for Aden Farah, vice president of the Somali Regional State. He replaces Keria Ibrahim, who held the position since April 2018 and

The European Union called on all parties involved in the Libyan conflict to end military operations and engage in peace talks in a joint statement signed Tuesday by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and the foreign ministers of France, Germany and Italy. The document addresses international actors as well, urging the “withdrawal of all

Photo: Credit Reuters President Pierre Nkurunziza, a fitness enthusiast who increasingly relied on religion and repression to rule the impoverished and unstable central African nation of Burundi for 15 years, has died, the government announced on Tuesday. He leaves behind a nation dotted with the unmarked graves of his political opponents, an economy in tatters

Photo: Credit Yeni Şafak An Iranian citizen who provided information to U.S. and Israeli intelligence services on the whereabouts of Iran’s slain Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani will be executed soon, Iran’s judiciary said on Tuesday. On Jan. 3, a U.S. drone strike in Iraq killed Soleimani, leader of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force. Washington

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is seen outside Downing Street, as the coronavirus outbreak continues, in London, Britain March 16, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls London mayor Sadiq Khan has ordered a review of the capital’s statues and street names after the toppling of the statue of an English slave trader by anti-racism protesters triggered a debate

Keria Ibrahim’s resignation came in protest against the postponement of elections in the country over the coronavirus. Ethiopia’s upper house speaker has resigned in apparent protest at the postponement of planned elections in the Horn of Africa country over the coronavirus, a sign of growing tension between her party and the government. Speaker Keria Ibrahim

Turkey stands by Libya’s UN-recognized government against putschist Haftar and those supporting him, says President Erdogan Turkey and the US are approaching a new era in ties over the handling of the situation in Libya, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. A new era can begin in bilateral relations on the transition process in Libya,

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during an event in Dover, Del., Friday, June 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Joe Biden diverged Monday from activists pushing to “defund the police” in the United States, arguing that an overhaul of policing in America can be accomplished within existing law enforcement agencies. A Biden