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  NAIROBI, 11 March 2017 – Members of the Jubbaland regional assembly are in Kenya to enhance their parliamentary capacity as Somalia enhances peace and reconciliation efforts. Apart from intensive trainings and lectures facilitated by prominent legislative and political experts, the 30 leaders of 13 parliamentary committees, will also tour Kenya’s National Assembly and the […]

Ivanka Trump at a White House lunch honoring women on Wednesday. She is working to enlist allies in a push for child care benefits. CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — One evening last month, a small group of Republican lawmakers — all of them women — were summoned to the Roosevelt Room of the […]

Deir Ezzor, SANA- Army units ,backed by the army air force, destroyed ISIS gatherings, positions and boats in Deir Ezzor city. SANA reporter in Deir Ezzor said that the army air force targeted the ISIS hideouts and positions in al-Mayadeen city in the eastern countryside of the province, killing and injuring a number of terrorists and destroying 3 of their positions. […]

American Civil Liberties Union files a complaint on behalf of several refugee assistance groups Image Credit: AP Esmail Issack, father of Miski Shalle, 11, and Muzamil Shalle, 14, embraces his children as their mother Halima Mohammad, far left, looks on as they reunite for the first time in seven years at John F Kennedy International […]

Erdoğan addresses the crowd rallying in Istanbul’s Bağcılar. March 11, 2017. (AA Photo) President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed the Netherlands on Saturday after the country revoked the landing permission of Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu’s plane in a bid to prevent the minister from meeting with the Turkish citizens in the Netherlands ahead of […]

FILE- Deported Somali nationals gesture as they arrive at the airport in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu, April 9, 2014. Sixty-eight Somalis arrived in Mogadishu Friday, having been deported by U.S. immigration authorities. WASHINGTON — For the second time this year, the United States has deported a group of Somalis to their home country. A plane carrying […]

White House says US president welcomes his Palestinian counterpart to visit ‘in the near Trump has been cautious in his contacts with Arab leaders including Abbas [AP] US President Donald Trump has invited Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas for a visit to the White House, in the first phone call between the two leaders since Trump’s […]

 The attack comes a day after a police colonel was killed in a bomb attack on a security checkpoint in Arish Lieutenant Colonel Fathi Qadri (left) and Captain Mohied Ahmed were killed in an IED attack in North Sinai on Thursday (Photo: Egypt’s Ministry of Interior Facebook page) Two police officers were killed and four […]

As she watches her home Somaliland stand on the brink of famine, a senior official has put out an emotional plea to the world to “not wait until people die.” With more than one and a half million people facing the prospect of starving to death, Ayan Mahamoud says it is “already too late – […]

The couple will be tying the knot on a luxury cruise liner which will embark on a four-day European voyage.UAE-based construction magnate Rizwan Sajan of Danube Group is hosting a royal affair for his son’s wedding in April. His son, Danube’s Group Director Adel Sajan and former beauty queen, artist and writer- Sana Khan are […]