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By: Andrew deGrandpre, The Trump administration would consider deploying additional U.S. troops to Somalia should the troubled African nation request greater military aid to combat al-Qaida loyalists there, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis indicated Thursday. "That's a decision we'll take if it's broached to us, and we'll...

LONDON, May 11, 2017- On the sidelines of the UK-hosted Conference on Somalia, the Somali government and high level business actors endorsed a Public-Private Cooperation Agreement to Accelerate Somalia’s Economic Recovery. The event was supported by the World Bank Group and the British Department...

Five Kenyans are among 72 people deported from the US over immigration issues. The rest are Somalis. Police and immigration officials said a private plane carrying the 72 individuals landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Friday morning after a long journey that started from...

By Estelle Shirbon | LONDON Somalia's government and its foreign backers on Thursday signed a security pact which they presented as a road map toward building a functional national army capable of taking on the fight against al Shabaab militants. The al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group...

Horndiplomat-The Foreign Minister met with the Deputy Consular of Russia Yury Kourchakov who is based in Djibouti. This was the first time a Russian diplomat set foot in Somaliland for over 38 years. This occasion was a meet and greet for the Consular to...

By Mary HarperAfrica editor, BBC World Service News This Thursday, the great and the good will descend on London to discuss Somalia, a country that has topped the Fragile States Indexfor eight of the past 10 years. The London Somalia Conference, co-chaired by the UK, Somalia...

Dubai-based DP World, a global trade enabler, has celebrated its 30-year port concession for the management and development of a multi-purpose port project at Berbera, Republic of Somaliland which started on March 2. President of the Republic of Somaliland, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud and DP World...

International leaders are gathering in London on Thursday to thrash out agreements with Somalia aimed at stabilising the country under its new political leadership. The one-day conference is looking to strike a new compact that will accelerate progress on security, development and the troubled east...

As Chinese and Africans get more opportunities to interact with each other following growing multilateral ties, many become friends and even fall in love. So how do the cultural differences feature in their relationships? Or are the differences over-exaggerated; could there actually be more similarities...

By Jim Acosta and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN)President Donald Trump plans to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday, according to his schedule. The meeting will take place at 10:30 a.m. ET in the Oval Office and will be closed to press, according to...