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Photo Somali Times, Thursday December 25th 2025. Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh and his family have become dictators through one-party elections. ead: Somalia corrupt president Hassan
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Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh and his family have become dictators through one-party elections
Photo Somali Times, Thursday December 25th 2025. Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh and his family have become dictators through one-party elections. ead: Somalia corrupt president Hassan
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Castrol motor oil bottles are seen in this illustration taken June 19, 2025. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo By Reuters BP, opens new tab has agreed to sell a 65% stake in its Castrol
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By Anadolu Agency Venezuela has reached its goal of producing 1.2 million barrels of crude oil per day this year, despite intensifying US pressure and tanker seizures, said Vice President Delcy
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Featured ArticlesSomalia’s president Hassan Sheikh and his family have become dictators through one-party elections
Photo Somali Times, Thursday December 25th 2025. Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh and his family have become dictators through one-party elections. ead: Somalia corrupt president Hassan
Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh and his family have become dictators through one-party elections
Photo Somali Times, Thursday December 25th 2025. Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh and his family have become dictators through one-party elections. ead: Somalia corrupt president Hassan
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Somalia companies are expected to sign an agreement on oil drilling
Photo/Somali Times Somalia companies are expected to sign an agreement on oil drilling in Somalia today at Villa Somalia, with a meeting to be held at the Somali presidential palace, according to
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Photo: Credit Reuters Fighting between Ethiopian government forces and rebellious northern leaders could spiral out of control and war crimes may have been committed, the United Nations said on
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Members of Amhara region militias head to face the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, named by some as responsible for the killings. Photograph: Tiksa Negeri/Reuters By Jason Burke Amnesty
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UN votes to crack down on Somalia’s al-Shabab extremists
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Egypt hires $65k monthly US lobbying firm after Biden victory
US President Donald Trump (R) and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in Washington, US on 3 April 2017 [Presidency of Egypt/ Handout/Anadolu Agency] The Egyptian government has hired a
Dominic Cummings must go, Boris Johnson told as Tories warn him to get a ‘grip’ on Number 10 infighting
Photo: Credit Evening Standard / eyevine By Nicholas Cecil,Sophia Sleigh and John Dunne Boris Johnson was today urged to “take back control” of his infighting-plagued government by sacking
Sudan discovers new Bashir era mass graves
Investigation to track possible killing, burial of those reported missing Sudanese General Prosecutor Taj Alsir Alhibir said Wednesday that authorities discovered new mass graves during the
World shares slip on doubts over COVID vaccines, outbreaks
People walk past an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in Tokyo Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. Stocks fell back across Asia on Thursday after gains for
Abdirahman Abdishakur says Farmajo and the intelligence service of seeking to postpone the election.
Wadajir party leader Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame said President Mohamed Farmajo and the intelligence service of seeking to postpone the election were setting up roadblocks to prevent the
War crimes feared in Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict
Photo: Credit Reuters Fighting between Ethiopian government forces and rebellious northern leaders could spiral out of control and war crimes may have been committed, the United Nations said on
Scores of civilians killed in knife massacre in Ethiopia, say reports
Members of Amhara region militias head to face the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, named by some as responsible for the killings. Photograph: Tiksa Negeri/Reuters By Jason Burke Amnesty
Middle East: Expectations from Biden administration
While some states seek to protect gains accrued from Trump administration, others hoping for fresh start As US President-elect Joe Biden, 77, prepares to assume office in January, the tumultuous
UN votes to crack down on Somalia’s al-Shabab extremists
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted Thursday to prevent the sale or shipment to Somalia of components of improvised explosive devices if there is “significant risk” they may be
Why Mahdi Guled cannot travel to Somaliland?
Photo/Somali Times The Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia, Mahdi Guled, spoke for the first time about why federal government officials cannot travel to Somaliland. Mahdi
Egypt hires $65k monthly US lobbying firm after Biden victory
US President Donald Trump (R) and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in Washington, US on 3 April 2017 [Presidency of Egypt/ Handout/Anadolu Agency] The Egyptian government has hired a
Dominic Cummings must go, Boris Johnson told as Tories warn him to get a ‘grip’ on Number 10 infighting
Photo: Credit Evening Standard / eyevine By Nicholas Cecil,Sophia Sleigh and John Dunne Boris Johnson was today urged to “take back control” of his infighting-plagued government by sacking
Sudan discovers new Bashir era mass graves
Investigation to track possible killing, burial of those reported missing Sudanese General Prosecutor Taj Alsir Alhibir said Wednesday that authorities discovered new mass graves during the
World shares slip on doubts over COVID vaccines, outbreaks
People walk past an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in Tokyo Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. Stocks fell back across Asia on Thursday after gains for