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MEDITERRANEAN: EU court rules in favour of parents on the move ― Italian Senate approves controversial security law ― Italy terminates contract with spyware firm following surveillance scandal ― Greek coastguard personnel charged over 2023 Pylos…

European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) · June 12, 2025

The Court of Justice of the EU has ruled that helping minors under one’s care to enter the EU is not a crime. The Italian Senate has passed the government’s controversial security law. Italy has ended its contracts with the Israeli cyber company...

AIDA Country Report on Ireland – 2024 Update

European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) · June 9, 2025

|Published on: 9th June 2025|Categories: News| The updated AIDA Country Report on Ireland provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum applicants and...

From Challenge to Opportunity: African Food Security’s Somaliland Initiative Reimagines Regional Agriculture

EIN Presswire · June 7, 2025

African Food Security launches a sustainable farming initiative in Somaliland to boost local agriculture and food security through community partnerships. MOGADISHU, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA, June 8, 2025 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- In the dry and...

Somali president proposes deal to US

MENAFN · June 15, 2025

(MENAFN) The United States may be preparing to expand its military presence in the Horn of Africa after Somalia’s federal government offered control of key infrastructure in two breakaway regions. In a letter leaked in March 2025, Somali President...

U.S. Travel Restriction on Sierra Leone – Separating Facts from Fictions

EIN Presswire · June 7, 2025

Travel Restrictions on Sierra Leone: What Facts are Saying FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE, June 8, 2025 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- In keeping with his July 2024 campaign promise to restore the travel ban and refugee admission into the United States upon...

Media reports more African nations face US visa prohibition

MENAFN · June 19, 2025

(MENAFN) The United States intends to widen its controversial travel restrictions to citizens from 36 additional countries, with 25 of them located in Africa, according to an internal State Department memo reported by The Washington Post over the...

Howgate Publishing Celebrates a Decade of Impactful, Practical, and Contemporary Military Books

GlobeNewswire, Inc. · June 6, 2025

Portsmouth, United Kingdom, June 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This year, Howgate Publishing celebrates its 10th anniversary. The boutique military publisher has become internationally known for producing some of the most relevant, practical, and...

China Calls on Iran, Israel to Return to Diplomatic Negotiations

MENAFN · June 17, 2025

(MENAFN) China has called for an immediate halt to hostilities between Israel and Iran, urging both nations to return to diplomatic negotiations and avoid further escalation in the Middle East. Speaking at a press briefing in Beijing on Tuesday,...

China Blasts Trump’s Tehran Evacuation Call, Says It Fuels Conflict

MENAFN · June 17, 2025

(MENAFN) China condemned US President Donald Trump’s urgent call for Iranians to evacuate Tehran on Tuesday, branding it as “adding fuel to the fire” in an already volatile Iran-Israel confrontation. During a press briefing in Beijing, Chinese...

UN Reveals Hunger to Intensify in Thirteen Nations

MENAFN · June 16, 2025

(MENAFN) A new Hunger Hotspots report issued Monday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) reveals that food insecurity will intensify in 13 countries and territories in the coming months, with five...

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Political analyst Herman Manyora lands top job

The Standard ·

Prof. Herman Manyora Communications Lead Researcher,CPS Research International,Most of the international students in Kenyan Universities comes from East and Central African Countries at over 70% the leading country being Uganda at 19.9% followed...

Somalia: The Flag Still Waves, But the Nation Does Not Stand

Garowe Online ·

Somalia: The Flag Still Waves, But the Nation Does Not Stand OP-ED — Last night, the blue flag with the white star fluttered over city squares and windswept alleyways. Patriotic songs echoed from loudspeakers in the Somali capital. In Hargeisa,...

ISSI marks Somalia’s Independence Day, reaffirm commitment to strengthen bilateral ties

Associated Press of Pakistan · July 1, 2025

- Advertisement - ISLAMABAD, Jul 01 (APP):The Centre for Afghanistan, Middle East & Africa (CAMEA) at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI), in collaboration with the Pakistan Africa Institute for Development and Research (PAIDAR),...

Tanzania, Somalia forge stronger ties with direct flights

Daily News Tanzania · July 1, 2025

DAR ES SALAAM: Tanzania and Somalia plan to resume direct flights between Dar es Salaam and Mogadishu as part of renewed efforts to deepen diplomatic and economic ties. The announcement was made during celebrations marking Somalia’s 65th...

Somalia eyes survey results in oil production

Daily News Tanzania · July 1, 2025

SOMALIA: IN a significant move that could reshape the nation’s economic trajectory, the Somali Petroleum Authority (SPA) has confirmed it will publicly release the results of its long-awaited petroleum surveys in July. The announcement marks a...

Despite positive economic prospects in Somalia, foreign aid cuts are downsizing growth

Panapress · July 1, 2025

An ancient village ran out of water. So it moved and started over again

The Independent (U.S.) · July 1, 2025

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

World Associated Press An ancient village in the Himalayas ran out of water. Then, it moved and started over

Yahoo News ·

SAMJUNG, Nepal (AP) — The Himalayan village of Samjung did not die in a day. Perched in a wind-carved valley in Nepal's Upper Mustang, more than 13,000 feet (3,962 meters) above sea level, the Buddhist village lived by slow, deliberate rhythms —...

Ancient Himalayan village relocates as climate shifts reshape daily life

Associated Press · July 1, 2025

SAMJUNG, Nepal (AP) — The Himalayan village of Samjung did not die in a day. Perched in a wind-carved valley in Nepal’s Upper Mustang, more than 13,000 feet (3,962 meters) above sea level, the Buddhist village lived by slow, deliberate rhythms —...

Somalia's economic growth at 4.1 pct in 2024

Xinhua News Agency ·

MOGADISHU, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Somalia's gross domestic product (GDP) fell slightly to 4.1 percent in 2024, down from 4.2 percent in 2023, the national statistics bureau has said. GDP per capita in current prices rose to 737 U.S. dollars in 2024,...