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Exclusive: NISA armed takeover of Mogadishu International Airport-pilots demand ICAO emergency audit and actions
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Featured ArticlesExclusive: NISA armed takeover of Mogadishu International Airport-pilots demand ICAO emergency audit and actions
File Photo/Somali Times By MP Dr Abdillahi Hashi Abib Factual and detailed report is submitted by a “whistle-blower” licensed commercial pilot actively flying into and out of Aden Adde
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File Photo/Somali Times By MP Dr Abdillahi Hashi Abib Factual and detailed report is submitted by a “whistle-blower” licensed commercial pilot actively flying into and out of Aden Adde
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AU signs deal with Somalia for Amisom to remain beyond 2021
Somalia Defence Defence minister Hassan Said Samantar and acting AU director of Conflict Management Directorate Fiona Lortan sign an agreement during the closing of a two-day meeting in
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Credit: Photo The Citizen Dar es Salaam. Five people including three police officers, one civilian and the assailant have been killed in the mid-day shoot out on Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road near the
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File Photo/Somali Times President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo was allied with the presidents of HirShabelle, Galmudug and Southwest, but his ambition to run in Somalia’s elections was opposed
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Entebbe International Airport in Uganda. By Daily Nation A total of 51 Afghan refugees arrived in Uganda on Wednesday morning, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Uganda has
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‘Forget it’: Guinea-Bissau President tells off US after $5m bounty on ex-army boss
Umaro Sissoco Embaló, the President of Guinea-Bissau. By Daily Nation Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embaló said Monday that the country’s former army boss will not be extradited to any
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Zambian outgoing President Edgar Chagwa Lungu, right, hands over the instruments of power to his successor, President Hakainde Hichilema during his inauguration ceremony at Heroes Stadium in
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File – In this April 14, 2021 file photo, CIA Director William Burns testifies during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing about worldwide threats, on Capitol Hill in
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Philippines’ Duterte agrees to run as vice president in 2022
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures as he delivers his 6th State of the Nation Address (SONA), at the House of Representative in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, July 26, 2021.