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Sorry, but when I decide who to vote for on Election Day, it will be the person I think can best represent the country, not the candidate that will most impress my boyfriend.

Taiwan President Tsai delivers 2021 National Day Address

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 10, 2021.
  Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on the morning of October 10 attended the ROC's 110th Double Tenth National Day Celebration in the plaza fronting the Presidential Office Building, and delivered an address entitled "Forging a Stronger Consensus: Standing United to Protect Taiwan." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUSVwOT7iQw A translation of the...

IGAD Signs  $3M Grant with the World Bank for the Formation of an Inter-Regional Platform on the Management of Desert Locusts 

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The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has signed a three year, 3 million USD grant with the World Bank to set up an Inter-Regional Platform for the Sustainable Management of Desert Locusts and other Trans-Boundary Pests. The grant is part of the World Bank's...

Analysis:Why Trump should be very afraid of James Comey’s memos

By Aaron Blake Notes by former FBI director James B. Comey show President Trump wanted the probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn dropped. (Photo: Matt McClain/The Washington Post) This post has been updated. Four days ago, President Trump threatened former FBI director James B. Comey....

Pretoria: Man kills ex-wife, himself in front of their daughter

  Pretoria – While many were celebrating New Year’s Day, all hell broke loose in the Somali community in Pretoria West with a couple dying in front of their toddler. The father, Hassan Moalim Ahmed, 28, shot his ex-wife Deqa Hassan Yusuf, 22, six times in...

US woman arrested over tweet ‘insulting’ Mugabe

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...

UN: More than 130 killed in Mali ethnic attack on Fulani village

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...

Ethiopia secures land for port facility in Sudan

By Birhanu Fikade Following his official visit to the Sudan this week, Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn has inked an agreement that would enable Ethiopia to develop a port facility at the Port Sudan through which the government contemplates to handle half its foreign trade volume. Asked...

Why Jack Ma went to Kenya, Rwanda with 38 Chinese billionaires in tow

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Jack Ma, Asia's richest man and founder of Alibaba Group is on a two-day trip to east Africa, visiting Kenya and Rwanda with 38 fellow Chinese billionaires, all no doubt poised with expensive fountain pens, ready to ink billion dollar deals. East Africa has become...

Trump ignores warnings with ‘reckless Jerusalem move’

by Ben Dalton President Donald Trump has announced that the US formally recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and will begin the process of moving its embassy to the city, breaking with decades of US policy. In a much anticipated speech in Washington on...

President Biden Advised to Recognize Somaliland Following A UK Lead

INDIA-G20-SUMMIT INDIA-G20-SUMMIT Biden and Rishi Sunak are both being urged to think anew about Somaliland (Image: Getty)
By DAVID MADDOX, EXPRESS Pressure is mounting in both the UK and USA to recognise a key ally in the Horn of Africa as the Houthi crisis escalates. A former Defence Secretary and ex-Attorney General...