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This will grant Amal Bank’s customers access to MasterCard’s global payment services, along with the bank’s enhanced service availability and convenience.Customers will be able to leverage Mastercard’s global footprint and Amal Bank’s National footprint. Somalia, 12 September 2023: Mastercard is launching Classic and Platinum Debit...

Helsinki city councillor Suldaan Said Ahmed (Left) will become Finland's first Somali-background Member of Parliament when he replaces outgoing MP, and incoming Helsinki Deputy Mayor, Paavo Arhinmäki (Left). MEP Silvia Modig (Left) was initially mooted as Arhinmäki's replacement after the latter was nominated as the Left Alliance Party's candidate for Deputy...

Aljazeera speak to Iranian Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar, and Slavoj Zizek defends his stance on refugees in Europe. In this week's UpFront, Mehdi Hasan speaks to Iranian Vice President and Head of Iran's Environmental Protection Organisation, Masoumeh Ebtekar, on her country's support for Bashar al-Assad...

Addis Ababa, June 15, 2018 (FBC) –Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) today signed a 3 billion US dollars loan and investment agreements, including a one billion foreign currency support. Accordingly, the UAE will deposit 1 billion US dollars in the National Bank of...

Horndiplomat-Queen invites May to form a government and become UK’s second female PM after David Cameron tenders resignation. Theresa May has emerged from Buckingham Palace as Britain’s second female prime minister, after paying the traditional visit to the Queen to be invited to form a...

Horndiplomat-France's defence ministry says three of its soldiers have died in Libya, reportedly after their helicopter was shot down. A short statement said the soldiers died "while on mission" in the north African country. Earlier on Wednesday, ministry spokesman Stephane Le Foll confirmed French special forces...

Ethiopia and the People’s Republic of China have agreed to further bolster their cooperation in bilateral, continental and international issues of mutual concern. This has been emphasized this morning (February 9), during a meeting between Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs,  Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu and Assistant...

By: Qatar News Agency Mahmoud Soufi, ex Qatari footballer, and one of the best head-to-head strikes at the Gulf level, where he played for Al Gharafa, Al Arabi, Sadd and Marrakih clubs, died Yesterday(June 2, 2019) at the age of 48. He was born on October...

BY:UAE FOREIGN MINISTRY The UAE has welcomed the establishment of the Council of Arab and African States Bordering the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, which was announced in Riyadh during a meeting of the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia, Eritrea, Egypt,...

Qatar and Russia announced the new agreement, which will see closer trade ties, during a visit by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the Gulf Nation on Wednesday. Lavrov made the commitment after a meeting in Doha with his Qatari counterpart, Sheikh Mohammed bin...