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By: MoDuale The Chairman of the Transitional Sovereign Council, Lt. Gen. Abdul-Fattah Al-Burhan, arrived in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea on Monday morning in an official one-day visit. According to the Yemane G. Meskel Eritrea Minister of Information, The President of Sudan's Sovereign Council, Gen. Abdul...

Türkiye’s first lady Emine Erdogan has called on her counterparts worldwide to be a voice for Gaza and to help stop Israeli attacks that have so far killed over 11,000 Palestinians. Emine Erdogan hosted the summit “One...

By:Mohamed Duale Horndiplomat(AddisAababa)- AU’s Peace and Security Council lifts off suspension on Sudan’s membership in the AU. Sudan was suspended in June following a deadly crackdown on protesters that left more than 100 people dead and dozens still missing. https://twitter.com/AU_PSD/status/1170013325058543617 This comes just after Sudan's newly appointed...

Heavy fighting broke out early Tuesday in a disputed part of Sool region, leaving at least four people dead, a security official told VOA. The fighting between Somaliland and Puntland erupted outside the village of Tukaraq. It lies between the main towns of Las Anod...

Government hopes two-year social experiment will cut red tape, reduce poverty and boost employment Finland has become the first country in Europe to pay its unemployed citizens a basic monthly income, amounting to €560 (£477/US$587), in a unique social experiment that is hoped to cut...

A ceremony in New York is honouring journalists around the world who've faced intimidation, harassment and imprisonment. The ceremony celebrating press freedom recognised journalists from a variety of nations, such as Cameroon, Thailand and Mexico, including an award for Afrah Nasser, a Yemeni reporter...

The African Union has welcomed South Africa’s decision — and says more of its members are likely to follow suit in the coming weeks. In September this year, the African Union went ahead with plans to endorse a mass withdrawal of its members from the...

Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban The United States has officially issued new visa restrictions on two African countries – Eritrea and Guinea. The respective embassies in Asmara and Conakry confirmed the order. They added that the directive took effect on Wednesday September 13. The move is...

Press Release The UK yesterday signed an agreement with the Government of Somaliland and the Netherlands to support the implementation of Phase II of the Somaliland Development Fund (SDF2) programme, which aims to improve the lives of local people through the delivery of essential public...

By NADIFA MOHAMED JULY 3, 2017 LOVE, AFRICA A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival By Jeffrey Gettleman 352 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $27.99. A memoir is an opportunity for a writer to put his or her life on trial, but few follow through and condemn themselves too. Jeffrey Gettleman, this...