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A spike in grain prices since Russia quit a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain "potentially threatens hunger and worse for millions of people," the...
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Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen apparently met the leader of an Islamic country that does not have diplomatic relations with the occupation state on Sunday, according to Israeli media...
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July 14, 2023
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Omar Ahmed
It's been quite a busy year for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in terms of diplomatic engagement. In February he made an official state visit to China, where 20 agreements...
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Raisi's African visit, the first by an Iranian leader since 2013, follows a visit in June to three Latin American countries.
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Sudan said, Wednesday, it views "positively" an Egyptian initiative to host a summit of neighbouring countries to look into ways of resolving the Sudanese conflict, Anadolu Agency reports. Egypt...
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi arrived in Nairobi today as the part of the first leg of his three-nation tour of Africa, which will cover Uganda and Zimbabwe as well...
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The Sudanese government will not allow foreign forces to be deployed in the country, it said in a statement yesterday, adding that they would be seen as aggressors. This...
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The head of a US think tank is currently on the run after being charged with being an agent of China and attempting to broker the sale of weapons...
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An eastern African bloc yesterday called for a regional summit to consider deploying troops to Sudan to protect civilians, three months after violence erupted between the army and a...
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The head of Sudan's Transitional Sovereignty Council, army commander General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, has reiterated his rejection of Kenya's chairmanship of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Quartet High-Level...
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Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi arrived in the French capital, Paris, yesterday to attend the two-day Summit for a New Global Financing Pact which will begin today. Egypt's Presidential Spokesperson...
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The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has rejected the appointment of Kenyan President, William Ruto, as head of a quartet formed by the Inter-governmental Organisation for Development in East...
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Sudan's army chief, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, refuses to meet rival commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, "under the current circumstances", a government official said yesterday....
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The EU plans to channel more funds to Western African countries to prevent irregular migration heading to the bloc, an official said on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reports. Ylva Johansson,...
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The United Nations is working with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to create a platform to help process transactions for Russian exports of grain and fertiliser to Africa, the...
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Rising fertiliser prices will exacerbate the problem of agricultural commodity prices in coming years, said Abdul Hakim Elwaer, the assistant Director-General of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), Anadolu...
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Andrew Maganga seized the chance to work as a World Cup security guard in Qatar last year, only to be fired, along with some 200 others on the last...
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The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said yesterday that more than 1,000 displaced people move daily from Sudan to Ethiopia. The organisation explained in a statement published on its...
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Millions of Muslims across Africa, on Friday, began celebrating Eid Al-Fitr, a religious festival marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, Anadolu News Agency reports. Prayers were...
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The African Union (AU) on Saturday called for a cease-fire in Sudan amid clashes between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Anadolu reports. "The chairperson fervently...
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"Witty, easy to mingle with, and a thorough gentleman," recalling moments of Pakistani relatives spent with Humza Yousaf, who was elected as Scotland's first Muslim leader, Anadolu News Agency...
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The Kuwaiti Ministry of Education will lay off more than 2,000 expatriate teachers and department heads in 14 specialisations by the end of the current academic year 2022-2023, Kuwait's Al-Qabas newspaper...
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A record drought sweeping the Horn of Africa may lead to 135 deaths per day in Somalia from January to June, a study by the Somali health ministry, the...
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The UN migration office, International Organisation for Migration, in Kenya announced on Thursday that it had sent 280 tons of humanitarian and relief supplies to help thousands of people...
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The defence ministers of Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti met in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Tuesday to discuss joint anti-terrorism measures, particularly against the Al-Shabaab terrorist group, Anadolu...
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The gleaming tower blocks and high-tech facilities of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's flagship new capital are a far cry from Cairo's congested streets and crumbling facades. In the New...
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The US is offering up to $10 million for information that helps bring to justice three leaders of the terrorist group, Al-Shabaab, as the Al-Qaeda-aligned group has stepped up...
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Interviews
November 8, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
For close to 300 days a year, Abdelrahman Hassanein's workmates are lions, cheetahs, buffalo and elephants. Not for him a desk, computer and colleagues engaged in mundane work. Instead,...
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World leaders, policymakers and delegates from nearly 200 countries are at the COP27 UN Climate Summit in Egypt, where they hope to keep alive a goal to avert the worst...
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September 26, 2022
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Osama Gaweesh
Egyptian Finance Minister Mohamed Maait has told Bloomberg said that his country will not get a new loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) until after one or two...
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Kenya yesterday announced that it would revoke its recognition of the Polisario Front and take steps to end its representation in Nairobi. A joint Kenyan-Moroccan statement said that the...
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British Muslims have had their citizenship reduced to "second-class" status, a new report by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has claimed. The think tank has found that powers...