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Faduma Hassan Mohamed has never witnessed a time like this. When rains failed to fall as in previous years, she thought the river near her village of Buulo Warbo in Somalia’s southern Kuntunwarey district would not run dry. First, the skies above became cloudless, she said, then the air hot...

Boris Johnson has been struck by another hammer blow as the new Tory leadership favourite emerges from the pack, Express reported hours after the prime minister announced his resignation. The newspaper reported that Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has been identified as the frontrunner to take over Johnson’s job and leader...

US Air Force F-35A stealth fighters arrived in South Korea on Tuesday on their first publicly announced visit since 2017 as the allies and nuclear-armed North Korean engage in an escalating cycle of displays of weapons. Joint military drills had been publicly scaled back in recent years, first in 2018...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi will meet his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, for talks in Angola this week, officials from both countries have announced. There were no details on what they would discuss, but the neighbours have been at diplomatic loggerheads since a surge of attacks in eastern...

Somalia has granted licenses to two foreign banks, a move that has swung open the Horn of Africa country’s to international investment for the first time in more than 30 years. The Egyptian bank Banque Misr and the Turkish bank Ziraat Katilim are the first foreign banks to be allowed...

Facing the threat of extremist groups encroaching into its northern border regions, Ghana recently announced its “See Something, Say Something” campaign that urges citizens to report suspicious activity. “Launching this campaign is to ensure we have all-inclusive, society involvement,” government spokesman Palgrave Boakye-Danquah was quoted by Joy News television. “The...