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  • Ruto gives timeline for revival of 100-year old railway linking Kenya and Tanzania

    By Kenyans President William Ruto has announced that the long-dormant Voi-Mwatate-Taveta railway line will be fully operational by April next year, setting a concrete deadline for a project that

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  • Iran warns it will attack US forces if they try to enter Hormuz Strait

    By Anadolu Agency Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on Monday warned it will target US forces if they attempt to approach or enter the Strait of Hormuz, escalating tensions in the

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  • EU’s regulatory turn risks undermining fair competition

    A woman talks through an iPhone at the Berlaymont building, headquarters of the European Commission, in Brussels, Belgium, on March 4, 2024. Photographer Meng Dingbo By Xinhua News Agency With

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  • Turkey approves $30 million in aid to support Hassan Sheikh and his family

    File Photo/Somali Times Turkey has approved a $30 million grant agreement for Somalia corrupt president Hassan Sheikh and his family allies of Turkey, marking a new round of budgetary support for

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  • Azerbaijan suspends cooperation with European Parliament over anti-Azerbaijani policy

    By Anadolu Agency Azerbaijan’s parliament on Friday adopted a resolution on suspending cooperation with the European Parliament in “all areas” as it accused the legislative body of continuing its

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Ruto gives timeline for revival of 100-year old railway linking Kenya and Tanzania

By Kenyans President William Ruto has announced that the long-dormant Voi-Mwatate-Taveta railway line will be fully operational by April next year, setting a concrete deadline for a project that

Iran warns it will attack US forces if they try to enter Hormuz Strait

EU’s regulatory turn risks undermining fair competition

Turkey approves $30 million in aid to support Hassan Sheikh and his family

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Russian agency says mercenary leader Prigozhin was aboard plane that crashed, leaving no survivors

File – Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin is shown prior to a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on July 4,

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Putin says Russia, North Korea have opportunities for military cooperation

Russian President Vladimir Putin (2nd R) and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (3rd R) inspect the Russian spaceport Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Amur region in the Far East on September

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Report: Somali president plans talks with parliament on possible ties with Israel

File Photo Somali Times/Somalia corrupt president Hassan Sheikh By The Times of Israel Earlier this year a diplomat close to Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud said his reelection opened door to relations

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Twin bomb blasts kill at least 2 in Somali capital

Somali-based insurgent group al-Shabaab takes responsibility for attack killing former regional administration secretary At least two people including the former secretary of the Banadir regional

Glasgow University To Start Paying Back Black Slave Trade Profits It Benefited From

Photo/ Atlanta Black Star University of Glasgow has decided to come clean about its role during the slave trade. Slavery and slave trade remain some of the biggest atrocities ever committed on

Trump backs Johnson, sends mixed signals on China at G7

Photo/AFP / Nicholas Kamm /UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Donald Trump were on obviously friendly terms as they sat down for a working breakfast in the French resort of Biarritz

Jubaland is a budding rose of democracy, shield it from thorns

President of the Somali Federal State of Jubaland. Ahmed Mohamed Islam Madobe It is now official. Ahmed Mohamed Islam “Madobe” is the President of the Somali Federal State of Jubaland. Madobe won

Exclusive: Sudan needs up to $10 billion in aid to rebuild economy, new PM says

Sudan’s new Prime Minister in the transitional government Abdalla Hamdok, speaks during a Reuters interview in Khartoum, Sudan August 24, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah Sudan needs

Uganda Airlines takes to the sky

Uganda Airlines at the Entebbe International Airport As revived national carrier Uganda Airlines prepares to take to the skies officially on Wednesday, for the first time in nearly 18 years, its

Trump arrives in Biarritz for testing G7 summit

U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania arrive in Biarritz for the G7 summit, France August 24, 2019. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in France on Saturday

Why Somali President Farmajo is busy dismantling the Federal States leadership?

Photo/Somali Times/Jubbaland State President Sheikh Ahmed Islam Madobe Jubaland has one elected presidents Sheikh Ahmed Islam Madobe Presidents Sheikh Ahmed Islam Madobe was overwhelmingly voted

Trump raises tariffs on Chinese goods as trade war escalates

FILE – In this June 29, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump, left, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan. China

Maritime row: Somalia rejects AU commission invitation, sticks to ICJ hearing

This comes as the US on Tuesday backed Kenya’s push to have the matter solved through political negotiations rather than through the court The ICJ said the first round of hearings will take place