The UN has been warning of imminent famine in a number of African and Arab countries, unable until present to put together the resources necessary to prevent widespread hunger. This will be the subject of discussion of the UN General Assembly this (...)
If you want to visualise the financial cost of the war on terror since 11 September 2001, imagine $2 trillion when a dollar is put on top of a dollar reaching far into outer space.
Stephanie Savell
The first $1 trillion would be 67 miles high, (...)
AZHARITES IN KABUL: On the afternoon of 24 August, Al-Azhar University teacher Shawki Abu Zeid landed on a military plane in Cairo after having been evicted from Kabul in the wake of the Taliban takeover of the capital of Afghanistan.
The trip from (...)
The woman who broke barriers as the first female foreign minister and deputy prime minister in culturally conservative Somalia now aims for the country's top office as the Horn of Africa nation moves toward a long-delayed presidential (...)
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday the al-Qaeda extremist group that used Afghanistan as a staging base to attack United States 20 years ago may attempt to regenerate there following an American withdrawal that has left the Taliban in (...)
As the dangers for migrants in Yemen intensify against a backdrop of conflict and the COVID-19 crisis, nearly 5,000 Ethiopians stranded in Yemen are waiting for their chance to safely return home, the UN news center reported Wednesday.
This week, (...)
It has been 20 years since the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on 9/11 and 20 years since the start of the US war on terror. It has been 20 years filled with lessons on how to combat radicalisation and violent extremism. The (...)
Twenty years after the horrific terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the world is certainly a far more dangerous and chaotic place. It is a major historical irony that while marking this extremely sad anniversary, the US and the world are not (...)
Policy U-turns are among the fortes of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP); and the AKP government has exhibited them, once again, in Afghanistan. Only a week ago, no one would have questioned its resolve to (...)
On Monday the last US military aircraft took off from Afghanistan. Terrorist groups exchanged congratulations over social media, hailing the Taliban victory.
The collective celebration is evidence of how intertwined terrorist networks are. The (...)
A car passed, the driver's window rolled down and the man spat an epithet at two little girls wearing their hijabs: 'Terrorist!'
It was 2001, mere weeks after the twin towers at the World Trade Center fell, and 10-year-old Shahana Hanif and her (...)
Tanzania's president on Wednesday said five people are dead, including three police officers, after a gun battle with an armed man near the French Embassy in Dar es Salaam.
It was not immediately clear whether the shootout in the heavily guarded (...)
As part of Egypt's strategy to engage further with the African states, especially those in the east of the continent and around the Nile Basin, Cairo unrolled the red carpet for Prime Minister of Somalia Mohamed Hussein Roble during a visit to Egypt (...)
For nearly four decades, the Middle East has been picking up the pieces of the US strategic folly in Afghanistan and paying the price for its unending wars in the region.
The debacle led to the creation of Islamic jihad by CIA proxies that rose (...)
In violation of the schedule for the Somali elections announced on 17 July, the Somali regional states have been unable to adhere to it.
According to the schedule, senators were supposed to be elected during the period of 25 to 28 July, and the (...)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is keen on fostering mutual cooperation with Somalia and providing the sisterly African nation with all forms of support, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly told his Somali counterpart Mohamed Hussein Roble on (...)
Later this month Iraq is due to host a political and security meeting, trailed as a "neighbourhood conference", at head-of-state level. A full list of participants in the meeting has yet to be announced. So far, Gulf countries, Egypt, Jordan and (...)
No diplomats are crowding the rooftop of the US Embassy in Kabul to evacuate the city by helicopter, as was the case during the Fall of Saigon in 1975. The total withdrawal of US troops, expected to end by the 20th anniversary of the 11 September, (...)
Hunger is expected to rise in 23 global hotspots in the next three months with the highest alerts for 'catastrophic' situations in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region, southern Madagascar, Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria, two U.N. agencies (...)
An infiltration attempt by the terror group al-Shabab to Ethiopia from neighboring Somalia has been foiled, Ethiopian authorities said on Thursday.
In a press statement, Ethiopia's Somali region communication office said two suspected al-Shabab (...)
Africa became the region hardest hit by terrorism in the first half of 2021 as the Islamic State and al-Qaida extremist groups and their affiliates spread their influence, boasting gains in supporters and territory and inflicting the greatest (...)
Egypt's Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad has highlighted the need to preserve marine life and coral reefs in the country's Red Sea region.
The minister's remarks came as she participated, on Monday, in the 19th session of the Regional (...)
An estimated 30 people died on Sunday when Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab group launched an attack in a town in the country's semi-autonomous state of Galmudug, a security official said.
The insurgents used car bombs in the assault on a military base (...)
During the month of May, "the operational activity of terrorist groups and organisations active in the region has sharply increased", according to the monthly report on the state of terror in the Middle East and North Africa that is put out by the (...)
More than 37 million voters and over 9,000 candidates, representing 46 political parties, have begun voting in Ethiopia's legislative elections on Monday.
Political parties are competing for the 547 seats in parliament, along with regional and (...)
