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Turkish FM to attend Sudan Partnership Meeting via teleconference

Mevlut Cavusoglu’s remarks come at Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Somalia Contact Group meeting in Doha
By: MoDuale Turkish foreign minister will attend the Sudan Partnership Conference to be held today, 25 June 2020 via videoconference , the Foreing ministry said on Thursday. In a statement, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Mevlut Cavusoglu will participate Sudan Partnership Conference, which will be co-hosted...

Sudan to skip IGAD meeting, FM spokesman

Head of the Sovereign Council Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
By: Sudan Tribune The Chairman of the Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, will not participate in the upcoming meeting called by IGAD next week in Ethiopia, according to the Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesman.

US launches ‘self-defense strike’ during raid against Shabaab

BY BILL ROGGIO US Africa Command announced that it launched an airstrike against Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in Somalia, while US advisors accompanied Somali and African Union forces in a counterterrorism exercise on Jan. 7. AFRICOM described the offensive under the guise of a “self-defense strike,”...

Turkish, Somalia presidents meet in Istanbul

Meeting between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed lasts for over an hour. Turkey’s president on Friday met with his Somali counterpart in Istanbul for talks, according to a statement from the Turkish presidency. The closed-door meeting between Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Somalia’s Mohamed...

US to appeal ruling weakening Trump travel ban

Donald Trump's administration vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court after a federal judge dealt a fresh setback to the president's ban on travellers from six mainly Muslim countries and refugees as unfairly excluding the grandparents and grandchildren of people living in the United...

Zambia confirms $6bn owed to China

By:BBC AFRICA Zambia’s new government has revealed that the country owes Chinese lenders more than $6bn (£4.4bn). Since the defeat of President Edgar Lungu in August there has been a lot of speculation around the country’s debts. The new President, Hakainde Hichilema, told the BBC last month...

Director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed discusses critically acclaimed ‘The Gravedigger’s Wife’

Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s work was the first-ever Somali film submitted to the Academy Awards. (Supplied)
By: ARAB NEWS DUBAI: Khadar Ayderus Ahmed was at his nephew’s funeral when the idea came to him. In the wake of that tragedy, the Finnish-Somali director had spent a torturous week between hospitals and cemeteries, searching for...

Uganda’s Museveni declared winner of presidential election

Museveni named winner of Ugandan presidential elections
Uganda’s election commission on Saturday declared incumbent Yoweri Museveni the winner of the presidential election, extending his 35-year rule as his main rival alleged fraud and urged citizens to reject the result. Museveni won 5.85 million votes, or 58.64 percent, of the total while main...

Rwanda is Hargeysa International Bookfair 2018 Country Partner

The Hargeysa International Book Fair 2018 will hosted in Hargeysa, Somaliland with the theme “Wisdom” from July 21-26, 2018. This year partner country for the festival is East African country Rwanda. The Hargeysa International Book Fair is an annual cultural event in Somaliland run by Redsea Online...

Sudan protest leaders arrested after meeting Ethiopia’s PM Abiy Ahmed

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (2nd-R) meeting a delegation of the Alliance of Freedom and Change in the Ethiopian embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, on June 7, 2019. (AFP Photo)
BY: DAILY SABAH Sudanese security forces have arrested two prominent rebels and an opposition leader, a day after they met the Ethiopian premier during his reconciliation mission to Khartoum, their aides said Saturday. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who has emerged as a key regional leader, met...