Politicians cast their ballots on Sunday, as they emphasized participation in Turkey’s historic presidential and parliamentary elections. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, accompanied by his wife and grandchildren, voted at the Saffet Çebi Middle School in Istanbul’s Üsküdar district. The president said that the electoral turnout in the “democratic revolution” so far seemed to be high,

Several people were killed and injured in an explosion at a rally attended by thousands in Addis Ababa on Saturday, Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said.The rally was being held in Ethiopia’s capital in support of the 41-year-old ex-soldier who has outlined a series of radical reforms since taking office in April. “A few

The Minnesota History Center will open the exhibit “Somalis + Minnesota” on Saturday, the first long-term exhibit about the east African nation’s culture, heritage and diaspora at the state’s premier history museum. Here, Osman Ali, founder and executive director of The Somali Museum of Minnesota, stands in the exhibit, which he helped facilitiate Luqman Mohamed

The majority of Turkish presidential candidates challenging Sunday’s presidential election has been publicized by many of his supporters in the coastal city of Izmir. Muharrem Ince, the leader of the secular Republic of Jamhuuri Party, described the resignation of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a tired, upright individual, and reiterated his commitment to take over

ISTANBUL-Iran on Thursday dispatched two warships to the Gulf of Aden, where for the last week fighting has raged between the Yemeni army and Houthi rebels over Yemen’s Al-Hudaydah province. According to Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency, Iran has sent both a helicopter-carrier and a naval destroyer to the region.A highly strategic waterway, the Gulf

Kenya is perceived as one of the world’s most corrupt countries. It ranked 143 out of 180 countries on Transparency International’s 2017 corruption perception index. The only African countries that scored worse – among them Somalia, South Sudan, Libya, Eritrea, Burundi, and Zimbabwe – were either politically unstable or in conflict. This poor showing shouldn’t

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said foreign debt is becoming a burden to his country.We have reached a point where debt servicing has become very hard for the national economy,” Ahmed said in an annual performance report presentation to parliament according. to the prime minister, The country has taken $1.3 billion in loans during

Last month, two dozen Somali youths swarmed and attacked two Maine residents in a park in Lewiston, beating them with sticks while laughing, as video of the incident shows.One of the victims was hospitalized, but no charges were filed. Then, last Tuesday, a group of Somalis fired pellet guns at non-Somalis in the same park.

State Rep. Ilhan Omar won the DFL Party endorsement on Sunday in the crowded race to fill U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison’s seat in Congress.Omar, a first-term state lawmaker from Minneapolis who has quickly gained national media attention as the first Somali-American to serve in a state legislature, won the three-way endorsement contest after two rounds

Today, Finnish passports are issued to foreigners six times more often than in the 90s, and almost all new holders are dual citizens. This is more than in any given year since Finland’s independence, a development the leader of the right-wing Finns Party finds worrisome. Over the past two decades, the number of new citizens