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By:Jama Farah, Horndiplomat contributor The seventh and final trilateral technical discussion between the water affairs ministers of Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) commences today (January 08, 2020) in Addis Ababa. Speaking at the opening session, ...

 By:FANABC General Adem Mohammed, Chief of Staff of Ethiopia’s National Defense Forces, met with Chief of Staff of Qatari Armed Forces, Lt-Gen Ghanem bin Shaheen al-Ghanim, in Doha. During the meeting, they reviewed bilateral military relations between the two sides. According to the Gulf Times, the two...

BY:UAE FOREIGN MINISTRY The UAE has welcomed the establishment of the Council of Arab and African States Bordering the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, which was announced in Riyadh during a meeting of the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia, Eritrea, Egypt,...

By:REUTERS President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkish military units had started moving to Libya to support Fayez al-Serraj’s internationally-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), based in Tripoli. Turkey's parliament approved a bill on Thursday that allows for the deployment of troops in Libya to...

BY: KHALEEJ TIMES  Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Monday announced that tourist visas in the UAE will now be issued for five years. Today, we change the system of issuing tourist visas in...

Saudi Arabia announced on Monday the establishment of a regional council of eight Arab and African countries bordering the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Saudi King Salman received the foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, Eritrea, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, and Djibouti in Riyadh and...

BY:US AFRICA COMMAND U.S. Africa Command acknowledges there was an attack by the terrorist organization al-Shabaab at Manda Bay Airfield, Kenya, today. U.S Africa Command and Kenya Defense Forces repelled the al-Shabaab attack. Working alongside our Kenyan partners, the airfield is cleared and still in the...

Heavy gunfire reported at Camp Simba army bases that hosts US & Kenya soldiers NAIROBI — Somalia's Islamist group al Shabaab on Sunday attacked a military base in Lamu county in Kenya that is used by both U.S. and Kenyan forces, a source and al...

Global trade enabler DP World has been awarded a 30-year Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) concession by the Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani), for the management and development of the Jeddah South Container Terminal at the multi-purpose Jeddah Islamic Port. Under the agreement, DP World will invest up to...

By:Anadolu An exhibition organized by Somalia and Turkey officially kicked off Sunday, attracting hundreds of participants, including business leaders from all sectors of agriculture. Among those attending was Turkish Ambassador to Somalia Mehmet Yilmaz, who said he was pleased to participate in the Somali-Turkish Agricultural Expo,...