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BBC Africa Daily Caught up with Dr. Edna of Somaliland

Over the past six decades, Dr. Edna Adan Ismail has been a nurse and midwife. She has spent her life fighting for maternal health...

Witness History: The Somali Pilot Ordered to Bomb his own People in Hargeisa

At the end of May 1988, rebels from the Somali National Movement launched a series of lightening attacks on cities in northern Somalia -...

Questions And Answers with Taiwan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Jaushieh Joseph Wu.

Minister Wu took questions from pool of international media reporters in Taipei on October 12th, 2022. The session was moderated by Catherine Y.M Hsu,...

United States Navy Seized Illicit Weapons Off the Coast of Somalia

United States Defense Department announced that the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill have intercepted and seized a large shipment of weapons aboard two...

Bilateral Ties between the Czech and Somaliland Republics?

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Somaliland Hon. Liban Yousuf Osman is in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic,...

New US Ambassador Appointment to Djibouti Could Signal Changes to US Embassy in Somalia

The President of the United States of America Mr. Donald Trump has appointed Mr. Jonathan Pratt to be Ambassador to Djibouti on May 1st...

China’s investments in Africa: a fresh lens offers more balanced insights

Simon Manda, PhD, University of Zambia The rise of China in Africa has triggered an ongoing debate about whether Chinese capital is a barrier that...

President of Jubbaland Wins A second term.

The president of Jubbaland, a Somali region of vital importance to the struggle of East Africa against the militant Islamists of Al Shabaab, has won a new term...

Commander of US Africa Command: Al-Shabaab is the Deadliest And Largest Violent Extremist Organization In Africa

General Stephen J. Townsend who has taken command of the US Africa Command based in Djibouti on July 28th has described Alshabaab as the...

American warship destroys Iranian drone in Strait of Hormuz

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. warship on Thursday destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after it threatened the ship, President Donald Trump said. The incident marked a new escalation of tensions between the countries less than one month after Iran downed an American drone in the same waterway and Trump came close to retaliating with a military strike.

China: Muslim-Majority States Whitewash Abuses

More than a dozen member countries of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) signed a statement supporting China’s policies in Xinjiang that ignored widespread repression of the region’s Muslims, Human Rights Watch said today. The Chinese government-promoted letter was in response to a joint statement by 22 countries at the United Nations Human Rights Council last week expressing concern at massive rights violations in Xinjiang and urging unfettered access by international monitors.

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