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Minbar,an international entrepreneurship organization, will host its first startup competition in Minneapolis this month highlighting businesses created by Somali entrepreneurs across the globe. To be considered for the competition, startups must offer a product or service that promotes job opportunities and quality of life in...

By: US Department of State US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa (SEHOA) Ambassador Mike Hammer will travel from May 31 – June 6 to Djibouti and Ethiopia. In Djibouti, Ambassador Hammer will participate in the East...

By: Staff writer The USA Senate finally passed the NDAA 2024, which included the Somaliland partnership Act. The Partnership Act stipulates that Somaliland and the United States cooperate in countering Chinese influence in the...

THE relationship between China and America, as diplomats often intone, is more important than any other between two countries. But that did not help China understand the election of Donald Trump any better than anyone else. The government’s initial reaction was one of confusion,...

MILWAUKEE — At a time when the United Nationssays the world has never seen so many refugees, with tens of millions displaced by war and persecution, Milwaukee teenager Zeynab Ali is just one more. Born in a refugee tent village in Kenya to parents forced to flee...

By:Matt Broomfield @hashtagbroom United Kingdom comes joint-fourth, behind Germany in top position, while countries on Donald Trump's 'Muslim ban' list rank among worst for ability to travel freely A German passport remains the most powerful across the globe, while its British equivalent is growing weaker, according to the 2017...

By Robin Emmott and Phil Stewart | BRUSSELS Britain said on Wednesday it will send fighter jets to Romania next year and the United States promised troops, tanks and artillery to Poland in NATO's biggest military build-up on Russia's borders since the Cold War. Germany, Canada...

Two items of news from Somalia — the Trump administration’s lowering the level of accountability for U.S. bomb and drone attacks, and the onset of famine — are not unrelated. The country has been the site of civil war, enhanced by intense international involvement, since...

Donald Trump’s executive order to halt travel from seven Muslim-majority countries – Iraq, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia – has provoked a wave of concern and condemnation from international leaders and politicians. A spokesman for Angela Merkel said the German chancellor regretted Trump’s...

Trump thanks Tillerson for his service as secretary of state, adding CIA director Pompeo will 'do fantastic job'. US President Donald Trump has sacked Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and replaced him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo. "Mike Pompeo, director of the CIA, will become...