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ANKARA-Turkish Airlines will send 60 tons of humanitarian aid worth $2 million to famine-struck Somalia as part of a campaign by Vine and Snapchat star Jerome Jarre. Hollywood star Ben Stiller had asked Turkish Airlines via Twitter to offer one of its aircraft to send...

Ethiopian Foreign Minister  Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu met with State Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar, Soltan Bin Saad Almoraikhi on the margins of the 32nd Extraordinary AU Summit today (February 11). Both parties have underlined the importance of further strengthening the bilateral...

By:Friederike Müller-Jung / abj For years, Kenya and Somalia have argued over where their maritime boundary in the Indian Ocean runs. The International Court of Justice in The Hague could now decide who owns the sea, a decision that will only suit one. A narrow triangle...

By: United Nations Hargeisa – On a visit to Hargeisa today, a senior United Nations official pledged the world body’s support for efforts to rebuild the Waheen marketplace which was recently destroyed in a blaze. “I am...

Somaliland has unequivocally rebuffed a recent statement made by Somalia regarding the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Ethiopia and Somaliland. The following statement was issued today by the Somaliland Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

By:Fana The 8th Ethiopia-Turkey Joint Economic Commission was held on Thursday in Ankara. According to Ethiopia state-run Fana, It was conducted under the co-chairmanship of Melaku Alebel, Minister of Trade and Industry of Ethiopia and Suleyman Soylu, Minister of Interior of Turkey. The JEC reached agreements on...

By:OnCuba A Kenyan court sentenced the driver of the vehicle in which the two Cuban doctors who were kidnapped were traveling, during 2019, to life in prison after convicting him of collaborating in their abduction. The incident took place...

By: THE EAST AFRICAN Kenya’s President William Ruto has engaged a higher gear for back channels to ease tension between Ethiopia and Somalia, motivated by business fervor in both countries. And, from this week,...

Prince Alwaleed was released from detention in late January Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal tweeted for the first time on Friday since his release from detention following the kingdom’s crackdown on corruption in early November. https://twitter.com/Alwaleed_Talal/status/959485775187496960 “With my son @KhaledAlwaleed, my daughter @Reem_Alwaleed, my grandchildren,...

By M.A. Egge The KULMIYE chairman and party’s flag bearer in the upcoming Presidential elections Muse Bihi Abdi has stated that his party was intent in bolstering and uplifting the objectives and aspirations laid down and fought for by the SNM which was fundamentally based...