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The World Bank on Friday signed a $1.3 billion loan and grant agreement with Ethiopia to improve governance and fund an anti-poverty package that provides financial relief for people facing food shortages. The bank said a loan of $700 million would be used to "improve...

Turkey’s largest foreign military base in the world opened Saturday in Mogadishu, in a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Somali leaders, top Turkish military officials and diplomats. Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire and the head of the Turkish military, General Hulusi Akar have jointly inaugurated...

According to the reports Djibouti Times is getting, there is huge row between Djibouti's president and the business tycoon Ahmed Osman who is also known as Ina Geele-arab. Reports say the row is serious and has extremely damaged the smooth relationship business tycoon Ina-Geele-arab used...

Gen. Hulusi Akar to attend inauguration of Turkish military training facility in capital Mogadishu   The head of the Turkish military arrived in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Friday, military officials said. Gen. Hulusi Akar was received by the commander of the Somali armed forces, Gen. Mohamed Ahmed...

Holding a joint press conference with President Putin of Russia, President Erdoğan said: “Unfortunately, our region recently has been becoming more fragile. The referendum has no legitimacy with regard to the Iraqi constitution and international law. Unfortunately, the regional government made a grave mistake...

Reports suggest Tom Price may have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to fly on private jets at taxpayer expense. In another high-profile White House departure, US health secretary Tom Price has resigned amid an investigation into his costly travel on charter flights at taxpayer expense. President...

Horndiplomat-Last week Ethiopia's accused neighboring Somaliland of illegally displacing more than 3,000 long-term Oromo residents in the wake of clashes on the boundary between two of Ethiopia’s regional states. Ethiopia Information Minister Negeri Lencho told reporters Monday in the capital, Addis Ababa. He said the eastern...

By Harun Maruf Al-Shabab militants stormed a military base near the Somali capital Mogadishu Friday using suicide car bombs followed by fighters armed with heavy machine guns, rocket propelled grenades and other small arms. The governor of Lower Shabelle region, Ibrahim Aden Najah, told VOA Somali...

A former United States diplomat has averred that Ethiopia had to use its influence as head of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to champion the lifting of sanctions on neighbouring Eritrea. Ethiopia for the month of September 2017 is serving as head of the...

Global trade enabler committed to UN’s Global Sustainability Goals Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 28 September 2017: In line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations to build a better world over the next 15 years, DP World will provide a US$ 2 million donation to...