File – Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong listens beside Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo during a joint press conference at a hotel in Makati City, Philippines on Thursday May 18, 2023. An 88-year-old Australian doctor held captive in West Africa for more than seven years has been released, the Australian government said on Friday,

By Reuters Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to announce a ban on Russian diamonds and imports of metals from Russia including copper, aluminium and nickel in support for Ukraine, his government said in a statement. Britain is also targeting an additional 86 people and companies from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military industrial complex, in

By Business Daily Africa Kenya plans to build three more ships to enhance the export of oil products to Uganda through Lake Victoria. Energy and Petroleum Cabinet Secretary Davis Chirchir said this would ensure daily trips from the current weekly voyages to the landlocked country. Despite being launched in early January, Kenya has only shipped

File Photo/Somali Times The federal government of Somalia announced yesterday that it expelled two men born in Germany and Poland, named Jocek Jozef Ochman and Ralf Bernhard Gehlig. The government did not officially announce at the time why two foreign men were expelled from the country, but an investigation it found out that these two

By Anadolu Agency At least 39 people are missing after a Chinese vessel capsized in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, Chinese state media reported. The missing persons include 17 Chinese crew members, 17 Indonesians, and five Filipinos, Chinese public broadcaster CGTN reported on Wednesday. It said the vessel was a Chinese fishing boat which “capsized

Photo/Somali Times Somalia shady President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, has arrived in Doha, Qatar. The president has started a two-day official visit to the capital of Qatar in the Valley, as announced by the Somali Presidency. Read: Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh history of corruption 2012-2017 Somalia shady President Hassan Sheikh is seeking financial assistance from the

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a J-15 Chinese fighter jet takes off from the Shandong aircraft carrier during the combat readiness patrol and military exercises around the Taiwan Island by the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on Sunday, April 9, 2023. (An Ni/Xinhua via AP) By The

Congolese police officers stand under a banner for 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Denis Mukwege after a political rally of Martin Fayulu, the runner-up in Democratic Republic of Congo’s presidential election in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, January 11, 2019. Reuters/Baz Ratner/File Photo By Reuters The World Bank has suspended funding for humanitarian and development projects

By Anadolu Agency The first HIMARS long-range missile launchers have arrived in Poland, National Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Monday In 2019, Poland ordered 20 HIMARS long-range rocket artillery systems, with 18 combat and two training launchers, for $414 million from the US. “Today we are accepting HIMARS launchers into the Polish Army. This

Sir Mo Farah and wife Tania attending the Bafta Television Awards 2023 at the Royal Festival Hall, London (Yui Mok/PA) / PA Wire Evening Standard By Ellie Iorizzo Sir Mo Farah has won a Bafta TV award for his BBC One documentary The Real Mo Farah which revealed he had been illegally trafficked to the