The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Sudan must pay hundreds of millions of dollars in punitive damages to some victims of the 1998 attacks on US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
The court's...
Users in the Arab Gulf region reacted to the reports of Qatari involvement in the recent hostage release of Italian volunteer Silvia Romano after her captivity by al-Shabaab, pointing to Doha’s track record of facilitating finance of terror groups.
Romano,...
Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, who is accused of funding militias that massacred about 800,000 people, was arrested on Saturday near Paris after 25 years on the run, the French justice ministry said.
The 84-year-old, who is Rwanda’s most-wanted man...
Israel is set to get its first Ethiopia-born minister, with the nomination of a female MP brought there in a secret operation in the 1980s.
Pnina Tamano-Shata has been chosen by incoming deputy prime minister Benny Gantz, who is forming...
Republican Senator Richard Burr, chairman of the powerful US Senate Intelligence Committee, stepped down Thursday after the FBI seized his cellphone in a probe of alleged insider stock trading tied to the coronavirus pandemic.
Burr said he informed Senate Majority...
The novel coronavirus is likely to stick with us for a while, much like HIV has, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said as it warned people that they may have to learn to live with it.
Speaking at a...
An Italian aid worker has become the focus of a far-right hate campaign after returning home this weekend having been freed from 18 months of captivity by al-Shabab in Somalia.
Silvia Romano converted to Islam while being held for ransom,...
ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey on Tuesday accused Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, France and the United Arab Emirates of seeking to form an “alliance of evil” after these countries issued a joint declaration denouncing Ankara’s policies in the eastern Mediterranean and...
China reported a second day of new cases of coronavirus in Wuhan on Monday after a month without new infections at the pandemic’s global epicentre, offering a stark warning of the dangers of a fresh wave.
The virus first emerged...
The government of Djibouti has exempted tax and revenue collections from businesses and members of civil servants over the economic impact resulted from a coronavirus in the tiny nation.
The minister for Labor, Osman Ibrahim Roble announces the exemptions on...
Ethiopian authorities have closed their border with Djibouti amid Coronavirus took its toll on the tiny Horn of Africa nation.
According to Ethiopian officials who spoke to the media, the authorities noticed an unusual spike in the number of returning...
The United States government has pledged to continue its support to the Federal government of Somalia in its fight against COVID 19.
The meeting between Health and Social Services Minister, Dr. Fowzia Abikar Nur and US Ambassador to Somalia, Donald...
