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The accusations from both sides follow the announcement of a 30-hour unilateral ceasefire by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday. Moscow continued to launch attacks on Saturday night and early Sunday despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement of a 30-hour ceasefire over Easter, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. The Russian Defence Ministry subsequently also […]

Qatar’s chief negotiator expressed frustration over the stalled Gaza truce talks in a recent interview, as a month of renewed Israeli strikes and failed negotiations left efforts to reach a deal at a standstill. Displaced Palestinian children sit on an unexploded Israeli ordnance in Gaza City, central Gaza, Palestine, April 19, 2025. (AFP Photo) “We’re definitely frustrated […]

The geopolitics in the Horn of Africa have taken a new turn, with Somalia indicating that it is ready to offer the U.S exclusive control of it ports in the Gulf of Aden Construction at Port of Berbera (DP World)Published Mar 30, 2025 4:15 PM by The Maritime Executi . This was revealed in a letter […]

President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that France intends to recognize a Palestinian state within months and may do so during a June U.N. conference in New York focused on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. French President Emmanuel Macron talks to media during a visit to Egyptian Red Crescent warehouses storing aid for Gaza, in the Egyptian […]

Speaking at a cabinet meeting, the US president defended his tariff policies, saying the US is in “very good shape”.The US tariff rate on most Chinese imports now amounts to 145%, Washington says US President Donald Trump announced a new levy of 125% on goods from China on Wednesday, but the White House has since […]

Addis Abeba –The December 2024 Ankara Declaration and subsequent diplomatic interactions signify a potentially pivotal juncture for the Horn of Africa. This budding rapprochement, however, is not without its complexities. On 27 February, 2025, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visited Mogadishu, where he held talks with the President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (Photo: EBC) While […]

Video evidence shared by the Palestinian Red Crescent contradicts Israel’s earlier claim the emergency vehicles were proceeding ‘suspiciously’ and without emergency lights. Israel has backtracked on its initial account of how 15 Palestinian first responders were killed near Rafah on March 23, after a video retrieved from one of the deceased workers’ phones appeared to […]

The attack comes just weeks after a roadside bomb blast narrowly missed the convoy of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, with Al-Shabaab claiming responsibility. According to security sources, the mortars were launched from the outskirts of Mogadishu and landed in an open area of Aden Adde International Airport. “There were about two to three mortar shells […]

The Gaza media office on Saturday accused the Israeli military of carrying out a “brutal and unprecedented” execution of medical and civil defense crews in Rafah’s Tel al-Sultan neighborhood on March 23. Paramedics transport out of an ambulance some of the bodies of Palestinian first responders, who were killed a week before in Israeli military […]