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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.

Somalia ambassador Abukar Osman elected Vice President of the UN General Assembly

Somalia ambassador to the United Nations Abukar Osman elected UNGA Vice President
By: MoDuale Abukar Dahir Osman Baale, Somalia's top diplomat at the UN, will become one of the vice presidents of its General Assembly after the East African country was voted to the position on Monday. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, president of the current 74th session of the UNGA,...

Rep. Ilhan Omar Wins Congressional Primary

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., participates in a panel during a campaign event for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders in Clive, Iowa. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP
By: NPR Ilhan Omar has won her primary, informally securing a hold on Minnesota's historically Democratic-run 5th district, the Associated Press projects. After a high-profile first term in Congress, the freshman representative faced several primary challengers, the most prominent being Antone Melton-Meaux, a first-time political candidate...

US:3 California Mosques Receive Letters Threatening Muslims

  LOS ANGELES — A civil rights group has called for more police protection of mosques after several in California received letters that praised President-elect Donald Trump and threatened Muslim genocide. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, said the same handwritten, photocopied letter was sent...

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...

UAE:DP World will not consider settlement with Djibouti over Doraleh port

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, June 16, 2018/ --Dubai-based ports operator DP World has denied reports that it is mulling an out of court settlement with Djibouti regarding the port at Doraleh. "It has been noted in some reports that DP World may consider an out...

New Proxy Wars in the Horn of Africa

Horn of Africa map
 It is a war fought indirectly between superpowers with the aid of Third World nations. During the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union allied with many smaller nations as a way to fight these wars. Third World nations were not allowed to...

Saudi arabia:Hajj minister, Somalia counterpart hold talks in Jeddah

RIYADH/JEDDAH: Minister of Hajj and Umrah Mohammed Salih Bentin on Thursday received Somali Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs Iman Abdullah Ali and his accompanying delegation in Jeddah. Bentin discussed strong bilateral relations and topics related to Somali pilgrims, briefing Ali on Saudi efforts to...

The Lost Love of Unity in the Horn of Africa Won’t be Back Again

Somaliland is a country that has achieved many issues in this fragile region. Its leaders are locally elected through democratic elections and this has made it possible to live and run its affairs alone in a peaceful way rather than Somali federal government. For...

US election 2016 live:America votes to elect new president

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...

Samsung chief Lee Jae-yong indicted in bribery scandal

Prosecutors have indicted Samsung's de facto chief Lee Jae-yong on embezzlement linked to massive South Korean scandal. The heir to the Samsung empire and four other top executives from the world's biggest smartphone maker have been indicted on multiple charges including bribery and embezzlement, South...