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A former Defense Minister has been elected the new speaker of Somalia’s Lower House of Parliament, local media outlets have reported. The new speaker is in the person of Mohamed Mursal Abdirahman, the Voice of America’s Harun Maruf confirmed in a tweet. He has also previously served as ambassador to Turkey. Lawmakers converged on Monday to elect a new speaker ...

Eman El-Deeb, a young Egyptian woman, decided to leave her country in 2016. But it wasn’t for education, work or a partner. It was because of her hair. The 26-year-old has big curly hair that is admired in Spain, where she currently lives. But in Egypt, where many women seek to emulate European ideals of beauty, she felt like her ...

Kenya lost about 1,500 banking and insurance sector jobs in 2017, the first such drop in seven years that also defines how banks reacted to the interest rate capping law introduced in September 2016. The total number of people working in the financial services sector dropped to 63,500 as most banks shifted from brick-and-mortar operations in favour of technology-based transactions, ...

In addition to seeking greater security collaboration, Buhari and Trump also will “discuss ways to enhance the strategic partnership between the two countries and to advance shared priorities, such as promoting economic growth,” the Nigerian presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, said in a statement. Nigerian newspapers report that a team of government officials that travelled to the U.S. ahead of Buhari ...

An end time ‘Zambian prophet’ whose name wasn’t given has caused outrage online after he was pictured taking off a lady’s underwear in front of his congregation in church. PASTOR HAS TO TAKE OFF A LADY’S UNDERWEAR BY HIMSELF INSIDE THE CHURCH AND ORDERED HER TO OPEN HER LEG WIDE FOR THE SPIRIT OF PREGNANCY TO PENETRATE INTO HER VAGINA ...

Former President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has received the 2017 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership at a special Leadership Ceremony in Kigali, Rwanda. Speaking to guests from Rwanda and around the world, President Sirleaf said: “I’m honoured to be this year’s recipient of the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. I receive this distinction on behalf ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to shut down the federal government in September if Congress did not provide more funding to build a wall on the border with Mexico. “That wall has started, we have 1.6 billion (dollars),” Trump said at a campaign rally in Washington, Michigan. “We come up again on September 28th and if we don’t ...

A Libyan transport plane crashed shortly after takeoff on Sunday at an airfield near El Sharara oilfield, killing three people, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) said. The military C-130 plane had been chartered by Akakus Oil, which operates Sharara, and had delivered 18 tonnes of catering and maintenance supplies to the southwestern field. The two pilots and a flight assistant ...

Egypt have been boosted by the news that Arsenal midfielder Mohammed Elneny should be fit for their World Cup campaign. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says the ankle ligament damage he suffered in Sunday’s 4-1 win over West Ham means he will miss the rest of club’s season. “Mohamed Elneny is out for the rest of the season,” Wenger said. “I ...

Improving nutrition in Africa requires not only greater quantities of food, but also hinges on the production, delivery and access to healthy foods and essential nutrients. Unless the quality of food that Africans eat is addressed, the continent will not be able to address under-nutrition and obesity-related diseases or meet global nutrition goals. This is the warning from the World ...