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Ethiopia, Germany Sign €100 million Grant Agreement

Ethiopia, Germany Sign €100 million Grant Agreement
Ethiopia and Germany today signed a budgetary support grant agreement amounting to €100 million. The agreement was signed by Ahmed Shide, Ethiopia’s Minister of Finance and Stephan Auer, Germany Ambassador to Ethiopia. according to Ethiopia state media Fana, The grant will be used to support the...

Egg thrown at Saudi general in protest against military campaign in Yemen

Ahmed al-Asiri tells London seminar that human rights groups are being duped by Houthi rebels A Saudi general has directly confronted critics of his country’s military campaign in Yemen during a lively seminar in London that saw him pelted with an egg by protesters as...

Pentagon Chief Visits Djibouti, Sole US Base in Africa

DJIBOUTI —  U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has visited Djibouti, the tiny east African nation that is home to the United States’ only military base on the continent, in his sweeping tour of the Middle East and Horn of Africa. Mattis called Djibouti, located on the...

Riyadh summit discusses ways of rooting out terrorism

Arab-Islamic-American summit condemns perpetrators that commit terrorist acts in the name of religion. Riyadh summit discusses ways of rooting out terrorism US President Donald Trump, leaders and representatives of 55 Arab and Muslim-dominated countries kicked off their Arab-Islamic-American summit in Riyadh on Sunday, focusing on unity...

Global platform reconnects refugees around the world with their fam

By Manasi Gopalakrishnan Conflict and poverty force millions of people to leave their countries and seek a better life elsewhere. Many of them get separated from their loved ones in the process, but an organization is helping them reconnect. Forty seven year-old Abdi escaped from...

U.S. Special Envoy for Horn of Africa to step down soon – sources

Acting U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, David Satterfield, prepares ahead of his address to the 11th Annual International Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel January 31, 2018. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo
By:Reuters U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa David Satterfield will step down from his role before summer, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, after less than six months on the job and at a time of persistent political turmoil in the...

Statement of the Chairperson of the Commission on the Situation in Sudan

Horndiplomat-The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) Moussa Faki Mahamat released Press Statement on the Situation in Sudan. The following statement was issued today by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC). Addis Ababa, 11 April 2019: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission,...

Sweden and the Netherlands partner with UNDP Africa on development response to growth of violent extremism

The Governments of Sweden and the Netherlands have made financial contributions of USD 3.3 million and USD 800,000 respectively towards UNDP’s regional initiative on preventing and responding to the growth of violent extremism in Africa through a development lens. The project also received an earlier...

Muslim girl ‘killed after leaving mosque’ in Virginia

By:Creede Newton Man arrested and charged for murder of 17-year-old Nabra, who was last seen near mosque in Sterling near Washington, DC. Washington, DC - Police found what are believed to be the remains of a 17-year-old Muslim female who was abducted overnight after leaving her local...

Saudi king rejects US plan to transfer embassy to Jerusalem

DHAHRAN: Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Sunday opened an Arab League summit by criticising US President Donald Trump's decision to transfer the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. "We reiterate our rejection of the US decision on Jerusalem," the king said in a speech in Dhahran in eastern...