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The international community on Sunday called for speedy formation of the Joint Ad Hoc Committee to facilitate the holding of a presidential poll by both houses of Somalia's parliament. In a joint statement issued in Mogadishu after the installation of the parliamentary leadership, which concluded...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The head of a Minneapolis-based Muslim civil rights group says his organizationis taking a new approach to countering hateful messages - and he's asking non-Muslims to get involved. Jaylani Hussein is executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic...

By AGGREY MUTAMBOS Kenya has reached out to Djibouti for a compromise that would see the Horn of Africa Country support Foreign Affairs CS Amina Mohamed for the post of African Union Commission chairperson. Ahead of the elections on January 30, Djibouti voiced public support for...

By Harun Maruf The commander of police forces in Somalia's Middle Shebelle region was killed Saturday in a grenade attack at police headquarters in Jowhar town, officials told VOA. Major Khalif Abdulle Arfaye was fatally wounded in the blast, which left two other people wounded. Police station...

Horndiplomat-Adama Barrow, Gambia’s new president, spoke with Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque in his first interview with international media. The future of Gambia and the crisis caused by former president Yahya Jammeh, who for weeks refused to step down, were among the topics discussed.

Jan 16 The president of Djibouti on Monday formally launched the construction of a project touted as Africa's largest free trade zone, to be built in the tiny Horn of African nation with Chinese backing. The agreement to build the 48 sq km (19 sq...

By James Gill Sir Mo Farah is homesick after years spent training abroad – but even with President Trump in the White House, Team GB's hero is staying in the US for the sake of his running career Mo Farah training in Dubai, where he has...

President Donald Trump directed government agencies on Friday to freeze regulations and take steps to weaken Obamacare, using his first hours in the White House to make good on a campaign promise to start dismantling his predecessor's healthcare law. Heading into the Oval Office shortly...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, assuming the mantle of 45th president of the United States on Friday, pledged an "America first" administration that would take power from do-nothing politicians and return it to "forgotten" Americans. Trump, a combative New York real estate mogul who harnessed a...

New York, January 20, 2017--Somaliland Attorney General Hasan Ahmed Hasan should immediately drop his appeal of a court's acquittal of two journalists charged with publishing false news and operating an unlicensed newspaper, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. An appeals court in Hargeisa, the...