Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan By The East African The US is roping Tanzania into the mooted Lobito Corridor project to tap the Kabanga nickel deposit, but with a wider focus on rivalry with China in areas where development will take place. The details emerged this week as Washington spoke of the importance of Tanzania

By Reuters Turkey’s foreign minister hopes to make progress on improving Ankara’s rocky ties with the European Union on Thursday as he attends a meeting of EU ministers in Brussels for the first time in five years, a source from his ministry said. Turkey’s two-decades-old bid to join the bloc has been frozen due to

Telegram founder Durov facing charges for alleged criminal activity on messaging platform By Anadolu Agency Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the encrypted messaging app Telegram, was charged in France for failing to take action against users’ criminal behavior after almost four days in detention, according to media reports. Durov’s detention, which began on

File Photo/Somali Times The Ethiopian government yesterday spoke strongly about the security situation in the Horn of Africa region, especially the concern it said it has during the transition period of the African Union forces in Somalia, abbreviated as ATMIS, which will be replaced by a new operation. Read: Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh history of

By Anadolu Agency German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised new measures to prevent irregular migration but ruled out suspending asylum rights, amid calls from opposition parties for a drastic overhaul of migration policy. “The individual right to asylum will remain in place. This is in our constitution, and nobody can get my support to challenge this,”

Wang Yi, the director of the Communist Party’s Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office shakes hands with White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan at Yanqi Lake in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. Photographer Ng Han Guan By Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan started his second day of meetings with

By Anadolu Agency The Kenyan police contingent deployed to Haiti as part of the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) said Monday that they had achieved significant milestones in their first two months. In a press statement, Kenya’s Acting Inspector General of Police, Gilbert Masengeli, noted that Aug. 26 marks two months since the first contingent

By Anadolu Agency US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered two American carrier strike groups to remain in the Middle East on Sunday after Israel and Hezbollah exchanged intense cross-border fire overnight. The announcement came in the Pentagon’s readout of Austin’s call with Yoav Gallant, his Israeli counterpart. During the call, Austin discussed “Israeli actions to

By Professor Abdiwahab Sheikh Abdisamad As September comes up, I would sincerely urge the Somalia government to no longer allow itself to be a party to the charade in Anakara talks between Somalia and Ethiopia. You cannot sit with a thief who is in your own compound on how to share what belongs to you.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer talks with staff during a visit to Garnerville Police training college on August 19, 2024, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photographer Charles McQuillan/ File Photo By Reuters Prime Minister Keir Starmer will warn Britons next week that the changes needed to fix Britain’s many problems will take time, saying “things will