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Featured ArticlesTanzania’s Zanzibar elder gains new lease on life through Chinese medical expertise
Chinese and Tanzanian doctors pose for photos with patient Omar Haji Makame after a successful laparoscopic surgery at Lumumba Hospital in Zanzibar, Tanzania, Oct. 20, 2025. The 35th Chinese 
Tanzania’s Zanzibar elder gains new lease on life through Chinese medical expertise
Chinese and Tanzanian doctors pose for photos with patient Omar Haji Makame after a successful laparoscopic surgery at Lumumba Hospital in Zanzibar, Tanzania, Oct. 20, 2025. The 35th Chinese
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By Anadolu Agency Former South African President Jacob Zuma night urged the Electoral Commission on Saturday not to declare Wednesday’s election results as yet as more than two dozen 
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Payment, electronic money institutions not to mediate platforms that offer trading, custody, transfer, crypto asset issuance The Turkish Central Bank will ban the use of crypto assets in payments 
Read MoreSaudi public prosecutor orders review of death sentences for three minors
Photo: Credit Middle East Eye Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor has ordered a review of death penalties issued against three men who allegedly committed crimes as minors (Supplied) The Saudi 
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Former South African president urges electoral authority not to declare election outcome as parties dispute results
By Anadolu Agency Former South African President Jacob Zuma night urged the Electoral Commission on Saturday not to declare Wednesday’s election results as yet as more than two dozen
Read MoreTurkish Central Bank to ban use of cryptos in payments
Payment, electronic money institutions not to mediate platforms that offer trading, custody, transfer, crypto asset issuance The Turkish Central Bank will ban the use of crypto assets in payments
Read MoreSaudi public prosecutor orders review of death sentences for three minors
Photo: Credit Middle East Eye Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor has ordered a review of death penalties issued against three men who allegedly committed crimes as minors (Supplied) The Saudi
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Venezuela arrests 6 foreign nationals, including 3 Americans, for alleged plot to assassinate Maduro
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Africa’s youth ‘losing faith in authority’
By The East African A civil sector ‘white paper’ on the hopes and aspirations of Africa’s youth across 16 Sub-Saharan states, including Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, has shown declining 
Somalia declares its support for the separatist movement in Ethiopia
File Photo/Somali Times The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia Ahmed Moalim Fiqi, has strongly stated that Somalia will support the separatist movement of Ethiopia, if Ethiopia does not 
Somalia president Hassan Sheikh has suspended flights to Baidoa
File Photo/Somali Times In the last few hours, there has been a lot of discussion about the suspension of flights to Baidoa city, due to the conflict between the central government and the South
Central Europe flooding leaves 16 dead in Romania, Poland, Czech Republic and Austria
People stand near the destroyed road by the Biala Ladecka River in the aftermath of flooding in Ladek Zdroj, Poland September 16, 2024. Photo/AP By The Associated Press Exceptionally heavy
Putin signs decree to increase military personnel to 1.5 mln
Servicemen march during the Victory Day military parade, which marks the 79th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War, Russia’s term for World War II, on Red Square in
Tel Aviv luring 30,000 African asylum seekers for permanent residency to join Israeli army: Report
Tens of thousands of African asylum seekers seen demanding Israel to recognize their asylum requests, stage a protest against the Israel’s immigration policies and asylum regime in 2013 in Tel
Trump safe after assassination attempt thwarted at Florida golf course
Secret Service and Homeland Security agents check a former home of a suspect named by news organizations as Ryan W. Routh as the FBI investigates what they said was an apparent assassination
Ethiopia says Somalia government is not able to work efficiently outside the Banadir region
The Deputy Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the African Union, Nebiyu Tedla, spoke about a recent statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia, Ahmed Moalim Fiqi, regarding
Venezuela arrests 6 foreign nationals, including 3 Americans, for alleged plot to assassinate Maduro
By Anadolu Agency Venezuela announced Saturday the arrests of six foreign nationals for allegedly plotting to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro. Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello confirmed
African countries with the youngest population based on median age 2024
File Photo/Somali Times By The African Exponent Africa is home to some of the youngest populations in the world, driven by high birth rates and improving healthcare systems. Countries with
Africa’s youth ‘losing faith in authority’
By The East African A civil sector ‘white paper’ on the hopes and aspirations of Africa’s youth across 16 Sub-Saharan states, including Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, has shown declining
Somalia declares its support for the separatist movement in Ethiopia
File Photo/Somali Times The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia Ahmed Moalim Fiqi, has strongly stated that Somalia will support the separatist movement of Ethiopia, if Ethiopia does not


