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Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the US presidential election, voicing hope that joint work will resolve the crisis in bilateral ties, the Kremlin said Wednesday.  President Putin sent a telegram to Donald Trump, congratulating him on his victory in the US presidential...

Up until the final results were announced, Israeli news media reported that whoever took this election, it would not be good for Israel. Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley reports from East Jerusalem.

The stunning loss by Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has many people wondering how it happened. From an email scandal to questions about her family's charitable foundation, there were signs early on that, contrary to her campaign slogan, Americans weren't ready for her. Al Jazeera's Kimberly Halkett...

Millions of Americans have been heading to polling stations to choose the 45th US president after a long and bitter contest between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and her Republican rival Donald Trump. Polling locations on Tuesday will continue to open across the US all the...

Nairobi (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls on all parties to the conflict in Galkayo to take all precautionary measures to protect civilians, health care staff and medical facilities. "It's vital that the civilians caught in conflict – families, mothers,...

Twenty-five-year-old Shukri Shafe Guled comes from the Somali Regional State in Ethiopia, but has been living in Australia since 2010. In June 2016, he and other protesters gathered in Melbourne to demonstrate against the visit of an Ethiopian delegation that included the Somali Regional...

BY CONOR GAFFEY  U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump turned on the country’s Somali community on Sunday during a speech in Minnesota. The Republican candidate promised to crack down on “faulty refugee-vetting” if he is elected, saying that large numbers of Somali refugees had settled illegally in...

November 2016 – The United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) is mandated with many tasks in the east African nation as it continues to make significant strides in its peace process after two decades of lawlessness and conflict. These tasks include helping the Federal...

Senator Amy Klobuchar talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump's broad-brush insult of the Minnesota Somali community as he tries to win more white rural voters by making them afraid of their non-white neighbors source:msnbc

By IMENDE BENJAMIN @akhasakhulu Kenya has launched a major diplomatic campaign aimed at getting votes for Foreign Affairs CS Amina Mohamed to become the next African Union Commission chairperson. The post is currently held by South Africa’s Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, who was elected in July 2012...