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By:Hassan Jama, Horndiplomat Contributor U.S. Department of State issued a statement today (February 5) announcing that U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo will travel to Germany, Senegal, Angola, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, and Oman from February 13-22, 2020. According to the statement, the Secretary will travel...

BY:AP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the leader of Sudan on Monday and said they began talks on normalization, a major diplomatic breakthrough with an Arab and African state two days after the Arab League rejected a U.S. Mideast initiative that heavily favors...

By: AP A federal judge in Virginia has refused to vacate the life sentence handed down to a Somali man convicted in a 2010 attack on a U.S. Navy vessel off the coast of Africa. A judge in Norfolk issued a ruling Friday rejecting Mohamed Abdi...

By:REUTERS Ministers from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan said on Friday a final agreement will be signed by the end of February on the giant Blue Nile hydropower dam that sparked a years-long diplomatic crisis between Cairo and Addis Ababa. The countries have been at odds over...

By:BW The increasing population of African youth is presenting the world with an important opportunity to do business and invest in the continent. African countries have been looking to a much wider range of partnerships recently, including most notably with China, which has a much...

By:Abdirashid Abdi Jama Africa's potential as a growth market for business, military and Economically remains both underestimated and misunderstood as does the potential for business to play a transformative role in solving the continent's biggest challenge. Diplomatic  Chinese activities in Africa may grab the most headlines, but...

BY: DAILY SABAH a military plane carrying a team of medical experts bringing civilians injured in a recent terrorist attack in Mogadishu arrived in the Turkish capital in Ankara on Tuesday. The National Medical Rescue Team of nine people traveled on an A400M-type military transport aircraft...

Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, chairman and chief executive officer of DP World Plc, discusses the outlook for global trade, globalization and Africa's economic growth. He speaks with Francine Lacqua on "Bloomberg Surveillance" at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Philipp Hildebrand, vice chairman...

By: Anadolu Agency Turkey will continue supporting the political process in Libya both on the ground and at the negotiating table, said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday. Speaking to reporters travelling with him on the plane following the conference in Berlin, Erdogan said Turkey's efforts...

By:Hassan Jama, Horndiplomat Contributor Washington, DC – The Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Water Resources of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan and their delegations met with the Secretary of the Treasury and the President of the World Bank, participating as observers, in Washington, D.C. on January...