Somalia’s opposition politicians on Thursday night cancelled a planned rally in Mogadishu after Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble conceded some of their demands. The rally, which ha... Read more

Soldiers from Eritrea systematically killed “many hundreds” of people, the large majority men, in a massacre in late November in the Ethiopian city of Axum, Amnesty International says in a n... Read more

Cyprus said Turkey has created a new refugee route to Europe via the north of the island by failing to uphold migration deals, the Greek City Times reported. The route used by illegal migran... Read more

The 27 leaders of the European Union shifted their focus to defence and security issues on Friday when regrouping for a second day of online talks. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg al... Read more

Iran is threatening to end a deal struck with the UN nuclear watchdog last weekend temporarily salvaging much monitoring of its activities if the agency’s board endorses a US-led push to cri... Read more

A U.S. airstrike in Syria targeted facilities belonging to a powerful Iranian-backed Iraqi armed group, killing one of their militiamen and wounding a number of others, an Iraqi militia offi... Read more

A resurgence of COVID-19 cases is hitting Somalia hard, straining one of the world’s most fragile health systems, while officials await test results to show whether a more infectious variant... Read more

Mustafa Kamel Some key international players have called for holding presidential elections in Somalia soon so that the eastern Africa country can avoid sliding into chaos and violence. This... Read more

Aya Ezz Somali presidential hopefuls have called on the United Nations Security Council to intervene so that Somalia can hold presidential and parliamentary elections. They declared the form... Read more

Nora Bandari After the name of Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, earlier made headlines as the country’s next leader to succeed his father, his name app... Read more

Ali Ragab In light of the escalating political and security tension in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, state rulers and political and tribal forces have expressed their concern about militias... Read more

Republicans rallied solidly against Democrats’ proposed $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill as lawmakers awaited a decision by the Senate’s parliamentarian that could bolster or potentially k... Read more

Somalia is in a political crisis. For the first time in the country’s recent history, the four-year mandate of Parliament and the executive has expired without the selection – or election –... Read more

Australia’s law forcing Google and Facebook to pay for news is ready to take effect, though the laws’ architect said it will take time for the digital giants to strike media deals. The Parli... Read more