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The United Nations on Monday rejected a call by the Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen for the key port of Hodeidah to be placed under its supervision. The coalition made the appeal following an attack on a boat carrying Somali refugees off the coast...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will visit Addis Ababa next week for talks with his Ethiopian counterpart, a foreign ministry spokesman said, in a bid to end a standoff over a multi-billion dollar dam project on the Nile river. The dispute, which...

By:GulfTimes The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani met on Monday with the Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia Hassan Ali Khayre during Sheikh Mohamed's visit to Somalia. During the meeting, they reviewed bilateral relations...

By SAEED AL-BATATI and ERIC SCHMITT AL MUKALLA, Yemen — Thousands of Yemeni troops are conducting a clearing operation aimed at driving Qaeda militants from one of their major strongholds in southern Yemen, according to Arab and American security officials. The offensive in Shabwa Province started...

By: Anadolu Officials from Turkey and Somalia met on Friday in Mogadishu to discuss crucial issues concerning the two countries. Somalia’s Energy and Water Resources Minister Fawzia Mohamed Sheikh received Turkey’s Ambassador to Mogadishu Mehmet Yilmaz in her office in the capital. Topping the meeting agenda was...

By:Ismail Akwei  Somalia and Comoros have gained entry into the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) as the 157th and 158th Member States and the 50th and 51st African countries to be admitted. Their admission was announced on Thursday during the 22nd UNWTO General Assembly in...

The public transport company is looking into allegations that a passenger asking for directions was told by the driver to “take a bus to Somalia”. The alleged incident happened yesterday morning on a bus stop at Msida, when according to a bus passenger, a man...

Horndiplomat-Hungary took its third women's gold in Olympic fencing since 2000 as Emese Szasz bounced back from a first-match loss in London to beat Italy's twice world champion Rossella Fiamingo on Saturday. France came close to ending a long medal drought in Olympic fencing, but...

Zimbabwean police arrested a US citizen on Friday for allegedly tweeting that President Robert Mugabe is a "goblin whose wife and step-son bought a Rolls-Royce," lawyers said. Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) said officers detained Martha O'Donovan in a dawn raid at her home...

BY:NEWS AGENCIES Survivors say traditional Donzo hunters carried out the deadly raid in Ogossagou early on Saturday. More than 130 people were killed in an attack on a Fulani village in central Mali on Saturday, the United Nations has said, as a delegation visited the country. Survivors accused traditional Donzo hunters...