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Map: The Economist The tense situation around ... This month he struck a defence pact with Egypt and Somalia, Ethiopia’s most hostile adversaries. Mr Abiy, for his part, has ratcheted up the ...

Jafari, a member of Yemen's Shura Council and former Air Force spokesman, to discuss the recent maneuvers of the Yemeni Armed ...

With counting almost done across 50 states and Washington, D.C., Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump clinched ...

Asha Mohamud, a Somali who has worked as a pediatrician and who lives ... In a dark restaurant in Los Angeles paper place mats are decorated with maps of Ethiopia. Shiny red-vinyl booths are filled ...

A senior Somali official insisted Saturday that Ethiopia will not participate in a new African Union peacekeeping mission starting in January. The two nations remain deadlocked over a Memorandum ...

The current AU force in Somalia known as ATMIS is expected to be replaced by a revamped mission called AUSSOM at the end of the year. The two countries have been at loggerheads since Ethiopia in ...

Ankara is expanding its footprint on the continent, but its struggle to balance closer security cooperation with Somalia and ...

Somalia insisted Saturday that Ethiopia will not be part of a new African Union peacekeeping mission, as the two nations remain locked in a dispute that has sent shivers through the Horn of Africa ...

Somalia has excluded Ethiopia from taking part in the new UN-backed African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission in the East African country. Somali Defense Minister Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur said the ...