File Photo/Somali Times Djibouti dictator Ismail Omar Guelleh reports suggesting was critically ill after being hospitalized on Saturday. Social media reports had claimed the Djibouti dictator Ismail Omar Guelleh is critically ill was flown to Paris due to a critical illness, with internet outages in Djibouti allegedly aimed at preventing the spread of news about

By Anadolu Agency Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi informed Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati of Cairo’s support Saturday for Beirut and directed the immediate deployment of aid during a telephone call, according to the Egyptian presidency. Al-Sisi affirmed Egypt’s “full support for Lebanon and confirmed standing by its side during these critical circumstances, and rejecting

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, September 25, 2024. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via Reuters/File Photo By Reuters Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been taken to a secure location inside Iran amid heightened security, sources told Reuters, a day after Israel

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