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Horndiplomat- Mary Harper Africa Editor at the BBC World Service take interview wih Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım about Somalia and Africa.  

The United Kingdom has updated its Foreign travel advice in respect of Ethiopia. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in its latest release of Thursday November 2, 2017 cited visa requirements as basis for the update. “Entry requirements section (Visas) – to obtain a business...

By Goksel Yildirim Turkey receives thousands of orders for MPT-76 rifle from ally countries ANKARA - Turkey's first locally designed and produced assault rifle MPT-76 has begun serving the country's allies, security sources said Tuesday. The Turkish defense industry sources, who asked not be named due to...

It is a minor miracle that countries have kept to their borders as resentments simmer DAVID PILLING A remarkable thing about Africa is just how stable its borders have been. Unlike Europe, where frontier-altering wars raged for centuries, where Yugoslavia shattered into pieces just a generation...

A vehicle-ramming attack in New York City has drawn a strong reaction from US President Donald Trump, who called the attacker "very sick and deranged" and pledged to step up vetting of those entering the US. At least eight people died and 11 people were injured late...

By Matai M. Muon In the international legal prism, precisely under the declaratory theory, a state is an independent, political, and socio-economic entity, with a definite boundary, a permanent population, and a government. The most striking attribute as per the international law, however, is the...

By Nadifa Mohamed It’s hard to not to imagine myself into those flats, in the days and hours before the fire. To not imagine the stacks of wedding clothes, jewelry and new-home paraphernalia at the home of Hosna Begum’s family, as she prepared to marry her fiancé...

Sir Mo Farah has revealed he is to relocate to London but has denied his decision has been influenced by doping allegations against his American coach Alberto Salazar. The four-time Olympic gold medallist instead insists he is coming home to London because he and his...

A spoof government notice hit social media as soon as President Robert Mugabe announced he had set up a new ministry responsible for Cyber Security, Threat Detection and Mitigation. Zimbabweans reacted with customary humour to the letter, which faked the signature and letterhead of the...

Gawain Towler denies telling anti-FGM campaigner Nimco Ali: ‘I am racist but you’re beautiful so I would do you’ A senior Ukip staff member repeatedly told a black women’s rights campaigner that, while he was racist, he would still like to have sex with her,...