Turkish president receives Senegalese counterpart
By: Mohamed Duale
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met on Nov. 20 with his Senegalese counterpart Macky Sall.
Erdoğan welcomed Sall with an official ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Ankara.
According...
Qatar to approve permanent residency for some expats
Qatar plans to allow some expatriates to obtain permanent residency, state news agency reported, in the first move of its kind among Gulf Arab states.
A draft law approved at a cabinet meeting will allow permanent residence to the children of Qatari women married to...
US judge: Grandparents exempt from Trump’s Muslim ban
Hawaii judge rules grandparents are exempt from Trump's travel ban enforcement on six Muslim-majority countries.
A federal judge in Hawaii has expanded the list of family relationships needed by people seeking new visas from six Muslim-majority countries to avoid President Donald Trump's travel ban.
US District...
Addis Ababa hosts final round of talks on Nile dam issue
By:Jama Farah, Horndiplomat contributor
The seventh and final trilateral technical discussion between the water affairs ministers of Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) commences today (January 08, 2020) in Addis Ababa.
Speaking at the opening session, ...
As Trump warned North Korea, his ‘armada’ was headed toward Australia
By Phil Stewart | WASHINGTON
When U.S. President Donald Trump boasted early last week that he had sent an "armada" as a warning to North Korea, the aircraft carrier strike group he spoke of was still far from the Korean peninsula, and headed in the...
We are not UN employees, Museveni tells AMISOM
President Museveni has told countries contributing troops to the peace keeping mission in Somalia that they are not United Nations (UN) employees but allies offering pan-Africanism services.
The President made the remarks at a meeting of African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) troop contributing countries...
Statement by the U.S. Embassy Addis Ababa on Reports of Ethnic Violence on the Oromia-Somali Border
Addis Ababa, September 19, 2017 :- We are disturbed by the troubling reports of ethnic violence and the large-scale displacement of people living along the border between the Oromia and Somali regions, particularly in Hararge, although the details of what is occurring remain unclear.
We...
What Kenya, Africa stand to gain from Japan’s key forum
Ownership by Africa has always been the most important element of the Ticad process.
In Summary
Ticad is the biggest, oldest and most powerful international conference which discusses African development.
The private sector-led development was identified as key to African development in the last Ticad in 2013.
Ambassador...
Erdoğan, Somalia’s Mohamud discuss ties, regional issues
By:Daily Sabah
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has received his Somali counterpart President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Istanbul, Turkish diplomatic sources said Friday.
The pair discussed bilateral relations and international developments at a...
In 2017, Israel detained or arrested over 6000 Palestinians including more than 1400 children
sraeli army detained 6,742 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank in 2017, according to data released by Palestinian organizations on Sunday.
In a joint statement, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)-linked Palestinian Committee of Prisoners and Released Prisoners' Affairs, Palestinian Prisoners Committee,...
