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Sudan to skip IGAD meeting, FM spokesman
By: Sudan Tribune
The Chairman of the Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, will not participate in the upcoming meeting called by IGAD next week in Ethiopia, according to the Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesman.
Dahabshiil Group donates 20 million birr to businesses affected by the fire at Jigjiga’s Taiwan Market
Dahabshiil Group has donated 20 million birr to businesses affected by the fire at Jigjiga’s Taiwan Market.
Dahabshil CEO Abdiarshid Duale who traveled to the city of Jigjiga and met with the president of the Somali regional government...
UPDATE: Firefighters, army douse massive fire in Jigjiga market
By: HOL
Firefighters and army personnel have extinguished a fire that ripped through an open-air market in Jigjiga, the capital of the Somali regional state in Ethiopia, on Friday night.
A rescue group led by the...
Azerbaijan, Somalia discuss possible prospects for cooperation
By: Trend News Agency
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov has met with Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Somalia Abshir Omar Jama as part of a ministerial meeting of the Coordinating Bureau...
Yemeni-Djiboutian Measures Reduce Migration Rates from Horn of Africa
By: Sharq Awsat
Measures taken by the Yemeni and Djiboutian authorities reduced the flow rate of migrants from the Horn of Africa to Yemen by 15 percent during the month of May, according to the data of...
AU mission concludes first phase of troop withdrawal from Somalia
By: XINHUA AGENCY
The African Union (AU) Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) said on Thursday that it has completed the first phase of troop withdrawal from Somalia with the handover of military bases in the capital of...
OIC slams Swedish extremist’s burning of Quran copy
By:ANADOLU AGENCY
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Thursday strongly condemned the burning of a copy of the holy Quran by a Swedish extremist.
The OIC said in a statement that...
Morocco recalls ambassador to Sweden over Quran burning
By: Anadolu agency
Morocco recalled its ambassador to Sweden late Wednesday after a man tore up and burned a Quran outside Stockholm's central mosque, the country's state news agency reported.
Morocco's Foreign Ministry...
Why trade needs to be encouraged in the Greater Horn of Africa
By: Nairobi News
When I met regional heads of state during this month’s IGAD summit in Djibouti my message was clear – buoyant trade is crucial to peace and development.
To put it...
Sudan declines Kenya’s chairmanship of IGAD quartet
By: Sudan Tribune
The Sudanese government formally declined Kenya’s leadership of the IGAD Quartet tasked with the mediation of the armed conflict in the country.,accusing the East African nation of lacking neutrality.
In...
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