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Aug 02 2022
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America’s new Most Wanted: Terrorist with key role in Black Hawk Down may be al Qaeda leader
The terrorist who played a “central role” in the “Black Hawk Down” attack in Somalia and facilitated the deadly U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa in the 1990s could be the next al Qaeda leader following Ayman al Zawahiri’s death in a U.S. airstrike in Kabul.
The State Department has a $10 million reward for Saif al Adel, considered al Qaeda’s second-in-command under Zawahiri and who could
Washington ExaminerJun 23 2022
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Top 10 African Countries with the highest inflation rates in 2022
As of 2022, rising inflation has become a shared trend worldwide. The overall inflation rate in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to grow to 12.2 per cent, and this is because many countries on the continent lack a sufficient central banking system, which in turn results in the manipulation of currency to achieve short-term economic goals. Furthermore, the global supply disruptions caused by the
Business InsiderMar 17 2022
Opinion
What Is Our Moral Obligation in Ukraine?
In 1994, I was a young journalist in the information graphics department at The Detroit News, just two years out of college.
In April of that year, the Rwandan genocide — a war of ethnic tensions — erupted, resulting in 100 days of unspeakable carnage.
The United States, still stinging from its failed peacekeeping mission in Somalia the year before, refused to fully intervene. I
Charles BlowJul 26 2022
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Why Ukraine-Russia grain deal holds promise beyond food
With the world mired in a food crisis brought on in part by the Ukraine war, raised hopes were the first fruits of the Russia-Ukraine grain deal. Yet the cooperation the deal demands may hold even more promise.
The agreement between Russia and Ukraine to allow the safe export of up to 20 million tons of Ukrainian wheat and other grains offers hope of easing an acute global food crisis
Christian Science MonitorJul 10 2021
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At least 8 killed in Mogadishu by suicide bomb targeting government convoy
A suicide car bomb targeting a government convoy exploded at a busy junction in Somalia's capital on Saturday, killing at least eight people, an eyewitness told Reuters.
Abdiasis Abu Musab, military operations spokesperson for the al-Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabaab, told Reuters it was responsible for Saturday's attack. The group, which wants to overthrow the government and
ReutersMay 31 2022
Analysis
Families in Africa burdened with higher food costs, hunger because of Russia's war on Ukraine
Families in Africa are seeing the price of wheat flour reach levels not seen in months as Russia continues to wage its war on Ukraine.
Most of the wheat sold in Somalia is imported from Ukraine and Russia, but exports through the Black Sea have been stopped since the Kremlin launched its invasion into its eastern European neighbor in late February.
African countries imported 44
Fox BusinessJul 21 2019
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Can Ilhan Omar Overcome Her Prejudice?
I once opened a speech by confessing to a crowd of Jews that I used to hate them. It was 2006 and I was a young native of Somalia who’d been elected to the Dutch Parliament. The American Jewish Committee was giving me its Moral Courage Award. I felt honored and humbled, but a little dishonest if I didn’t own up to my anti-Semitic past. So I told them how I’d learned to blame the Jews for
Guest Writer - RightAug 20 2022
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UN: US buying big Ukraine grain shipment for hungry regions
The United States is stepping up to buy about 150,000 metric tons of grain from Ukraine in the next few weeks for an upcoming shipment of food aid from ports no longer blockaded by war, the World Food Program chief has told The Associated Press.
The final destinations for the grain are not confirmed and discussions continue, David Beasley said. But the planned shipment, one of several
Associated PressApr 16 2021
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Biden to keep refugee admissions at Trump-era levels, despite earlier moves to increase it
President Biden is keeping refugee admissions at 15,000 this fiscal year -- the level set at the end of the Trump administration -- despite earlier proposals to dramatically increase it to over 60,000.
A senior administration official said Friday that Biden will be signing an emergency presidential determination to keep the number at 15,000 while changing the regional allocation of who
Fox News (Online News)May 23 2020
News
US Brags About Health Aid to Africa While Bombing Some of its Most Vulnerable Nations
AS COVID-19 BEGAN spreading across the African continent in late March, the U.S. State Department took to Twitter to boast about American health assistance there. A March 25 tweet from the department highlighted more than $100 million in U.S. medical assistance to foreign countries, including in Africa, as evidence of America’s emphasis on mitigating “endemic and emerging health threats” and
The Intercept