BY ABDI GULED MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A U.S. military drone strike has killed three members of the al-Shabab extremist group in Somalia, the U.S. Africa Command said Wednesday. The airstrike was carried out Tuesday morning local time in the Bay region, about 75 kilometers (45 miles) west of the capital, Mogadishu, the U.S. statement said....
July 19, 2025
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In Canada, an Immigration Minister Who Himself Is a Refugee
By CATHERINE PORTER TORONTO — He arrived in Toronto, an exhausted 16-year-old, carrying nothing but a small gym bag packed with a change of clothes. As a Somali, he applied for asylum and was jettisoned into adulthood. He registered for high school, learned to cook and landed his first job all on his own. Over...
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Secrets of Museveni’s 31 years in power as told in four lessons
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni. PHOTO FILE | NATION By FREDRICK GOLOOBA-MUTEBI One of the reasons why Uganda has been politically stable over the past 31 years in ways it wasn’t for the first two decades after Independence is a number of lessons President Yoweri Museveni seems to have learnt and internalised. These derive from mistakes...
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Saudi Arabia gave Donald Trump 83 gifts including swords, daggers and artwork of himself
Presents to the President include two robes lined with fur – one from a cheetah and the other from a rare white tiger Hannah Lawrence Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, US President Donald Trump and US First Lady Melania Trump look at a display of Saudi modern art at the Saudi Royal Court...
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Even poorest can be shielded from drought, say U.N. chiefs in Ethiopia
Alex Whiting ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It is possible to protect the world’s poorest from the worst impacts of drought, even in Ethiopia where back-to-back droughts have left 8.5 million people in need of food aid, heads of U.N. food agencies said after a tour of the country. But more investment is needed in...
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Homeless children sniff glue to take ‘away the pain’ of surviving Somalia’s streets
Matthew Vickery HARGEISA, Somalia — Plastic bottles litter the ground as children emerge from an abandoned mud-brick building in this hot, dusty East African city. The dirty bottles used for sniffing glue are a visible clue of what life is like for these homeless kids. “It takes away the pain I have,” Mohammed, 13, said, looking down at his sand-covered feet...
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Sweden rejects asylum claim by 106-year-old Afghan woman
Severely disabled refugee was carried through mountains, deserts and forests by family members fleeing Islamist extremists Bibihal Uzbeki seen in bed in Hova, Sweden on Sunday is facing deportation after asylum application was rejected. Photograph: David Keyton/AP A 106-year-old Afghan woman who made a perilous journey to Europe, carried by her son and grandson through mountains,...
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Ethiopia chairs UNSC emergency meeting on North Korea Nuclear crises
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia, on Monday chaired an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss North Korea’s sixth nuclear test on Sunday. The Horn Africa’s nation started last Saturday its presidency of the 15 member body for September 2017. The U.S. and its other allied countries on Sunday called...
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Kenyan election commission sets October 17 as date for new vote
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta addresses Governors and Members of County Assembly at the State House in Nairobi, Kenya September 2, 2017. By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s election commission on Monday set Oct. 17 as the date for a new vote ordered by the Supreme Court when it annulled an August poll won by...
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Abu Dhabi Chamber to discuss areas of economic cooperation and investment with Djibouti
ABU DHABI, (WAM) — Abdullah Ghurair Al Qubaisi, Deputy Director-General of the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, met Othman Moussa Derar Shoroua, Djibouti Ambassador to the UAE, and discussed ways of developing commercial and investment co-operation between companies, institutions and businessmen in Abu Dhabi and Djibouti. Al Qubaisi spoke at the meeting about...