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Burkina Faso’s tourism revenue hits record $165 million despite security challenges
Monument to National Heroes in Burkina Faso honors the iconic figures and martyrs of Burkinabè history. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/The black photographer By Face2Face Africa Despite security
Read MoreDjibouti dictator Ismail Omar Guelleh elected himself sixth term as president
File Photo/Somali Times Ismail Omar Guelleh, is well-known to Djiboutians. He has, after all, been in power since May 1999, the year he succeeded his uncle, Hassan Gouled Aptidon, for whom he was
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Iranian Red Crescent Society, Pir Hossein Kolivand (L), talks with Jean Arnault, the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for the Middle East Conflict and its Consequences, in Tehran,
Read MoreTurkish president, Qatari emir discuss Iran cease-fire, regional turmoil
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Featured ArticlesBurkina Faso’s tourism revenue hits record $165 million despite security challenges
Monument to National Heroes in Burkina Faso honors the iconic figures and martyrs of Burkinabè history. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/The black photographer By Face2Face Africa Despite security
Burkina Faso’s tourism revenue hits record $165 million despite security challenges
Monument to National Heroes in Burkina Faso honors the iconic figures and martyrs of Burkinabè history. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/The black photographer By Face2Face Africa Despite security
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Expose: Ahmed Rashid corrupt police officer in Nairobi
Photo: Credit Facebook Ahmed Rashid is a rogue police officer in Nairobi, who acts in the interests of his own frustrating Somali business owners in Eastleigh district, Nairobi, Kenya. Ahmed
Oil prices up on investor euphoria over tight market
By Sibel Morrow Stalled US-Iran talks puts upward pressure on prices, temporarily pausing extra Iranian barrels on market Oil prices rose on Tuesday over bullish market sentiments of a
Saudi agrees to restart Pakistan oil deal to curb Iran influence
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan (L) meets with Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (R) as part of his visit to defuse Saudi-Iran tension in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on October 15,
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Ethiopian migrants said they witnessed Saudi police break into homes and arrest those found inside (Reuters/file photo) By Zecharias Zelalem Over 10 days, Saudi police have snatched Ethiopian
Princess Latifa: Instagram image appears to show Dubai ruler’s daughter in Spain
A photograph that appears to show Dubai princess Sheika Latifa in Spain. Photograph: shinnybryn/Instagram Princess, who was seized trying to flee the sheikhdom in 2018, has appeared in several
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Ethiopians queue to cast their votes in the general election, next to a national flag, at a polling center in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, June 21, 2021. Ethiopia was voting Monday
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Four thousand U.S. dollars are counted out by a banker counting currency at a bank in Westminster, Colorado November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo By Iain Withers The dollar held on to
Iran’s sole nuclear power plant undergoes emergency shutdown
File – In this Oct. 26, 2010 file photo, a worker rides a bicycle in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr. Iran’s sole
President Farmajo praised fish exported to Ethiopia and received Khat, which effected Somali families-report
Photo/Somali Times The outgoing president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo tonight received at the presidential palace members of the Somali cabinet and the manager of the company that exported fish to
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A passenger walks with her luggage at the Terminal 5 departures area at Heathrow Airport in London, Britain, May 17, 2021. REUTERS/John Sibley By Sarah Young LONDON, June 20 (Reuters) –