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Turkey’s President Erdogan on declaring 10 ambassadors ‘persona non grata’ over Kavala

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan listens to a question during a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel following their meeting at Huber Villa presidential palace, in Istanbul, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021. (AP Photo) By: Daily Sabah Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday said he instructed the Turkish foreign minister to declare ambassadors of 10 countries to Turkey persona non grata after their statement calling for the release of Osman Kavala. “I have ordered our foreign minister to declare these 10 ambassadors as persona non grata as soon as possible,” Erdoğan said, referring to a term used in diplomacy which signifies the first step before expulsion. Kavala, a Turkish businessperson, has been imprisoned for four years now over his alleged role in the 2013 Gezi Park protests and subsequent riots. On late Monday,  the embassies of the United States, Canada, France, Finland, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden called for Kaval...
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Turkey reaffirms win-win approach in ties with African countries

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  President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (C) and other officials pose for a photo on the sidelines of the third Turkey-Africa Economic and Business Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 22, 2021. (AA Photo) BY DAILY SABAH Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday once again reaffirmed that Turkey’s approach in its ever-growing relations with African countries is based on equal partnership and a win-win principle, emphasizing the strong will to further develop commercial ties. Turkey’s engagement with the African continent has been gaining pace over the years. Since taking office nearly two decades ago, first serving as prime minister, Erdoğan has been fostering ties with Africa, presenting Turkey as a fairer player than the continent’s former colonial powers. Ankara has been stressing the desire to  advance relations with the continent on the basis of a win-win relationship  and equal partnership while observing mutual respect. Both sides have been vowing to tap into their greater...
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Somaliland: SONYO Hosts Interface meeting between youth and duty bearers on labour market trends and internship opportunities

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  By:Staff Writer Somaliland youth organisation “SONYO” organized an Interface meeting between youth and duty bearers on labour market trends and internship  opportunities took place at Mansoor Hotel. The aim behind the meeting is for youth to learn existing opportunities in relation to employment/internship as well as raise their concerns of the employment area to the duty bearers accounted for the area. The Executive Director of the Somaliland Youth Organization SONYO, Mr Abdihamid Omer issued the official opening statement and indicates the plan for the interface meeting .”Interface meetings of this nature serve as an information dissemination platform in which extended youth society members’ awareness of the capacity building programs as well as government policies that relate to pertinent issues of youth concern are raised.” Abdelhamid M.Omer SONYO Executive director said Abdelhamid M.Omer SONYO Executive director Abdirisak Jama DG Ministry of education development has al...
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New UK-Gulf partnerships to support infrastructure in developing world

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Foreign Secretary Liz Truss with her Saudi counterpart His Highness Faisalbin Farhan in Riyadh. Photo credit: UK Gov   Press-Release by:  Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office   Uk Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is using her visit to the Gulf to discuss new partnerships to invest in infrastructure in Africa and Asia. On her 2-day trip to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which began yesterday (Wednesday 20 October), the Foreign Secretary is looking to establish bilateral working groups with Gulf allies to deliver cleaner and more reliable infrastructure and much needed financing into developing and developed nations. Truss wants more bilateral investment partnerships to drive forward the Build Back Better World Initiative, which was launched by G7 leaders at the Carbis Bay Summit in June to meet the huge infrastructure need in low- and middle-income countries after COVID-19. Projects could, for example, include building water and energy networks, ports and roads. Co-investing...
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The U.S. Should Recognize Somaliland

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  By:Joshua Meservey,  at The Heritage Foundation.       SUMMARY The U.S. should recognize Somaliland as an independent country. In practice, the territory is not now, nor is likely to be, a part of Somalia. Acknowledging that reality would allow Washington to create more effective policy in an important and contested region. A strong relationship with an independent Somaliland would hedge against the U.S. position further deteriorating in Djibouti, which is increasingly under Chinese sway. It would demonstrate the benefits Washington confers on those who embrace representative government and would allow the U.S. to better support the territory’s tenacious, but still-consolidating, democracy. An independent Somaliland would be a stable partner that has little risk of experiencing the tumult that frustrates American interests elsewhere in the volatile region. Somalilanders deserve the justice of having their decades-long practice of independence recognized and sh...
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Location: Berbera, Somalia
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Father of suspect in UK lawmaker’s slaying is ‘traumatized’

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  A photograph of member of Parliament David Amess is seen among the flower tribute near the Belfairs Methodist Church in Eastwood Road North, where Amess died after he was stabbed several times on Friday, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021. The slaying Friday of the 69-year-old Conservative lawmaker Amess during his regular weekly meeting with local voters has caused shock and anxiety across Britain's political spectrum, just five years after Labour Party lawmaker Jo Cox was murdered by a far-right extremist in her small-town constituency. (Kirsty O'Connor/PA via AP) By: ASSOCIATED PRESS The father of a man held for the fatal stabbing of a British lawmaker during a meeting with local voters has told British media that he was shocked and “traumatized” by his son’s arrest, as police continued questioning the suspect under terrorism laws. Harbi Ali Kullane, a former adviser to Somalia’s prime minister, said counter-terrorism police had visited him, according t...
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Location: Berbera, Somalia
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Taiwan slams Chinese media Report on Somaliland

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By: Taiwan News The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) on Monday (Oct. 11) refuted a report by China’s state-run Global Times that claimed Taiwan has been bribing individuals in countries like Somaliland and the U.S. to facilitate bilateral relations. The Global Times article alleged the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) provided kickbacks to Somaliland politicians in order to promote Taiwan independence abroad. The Chinese publication also accused Taiwan’s representative office in the U.S. of paying U.S. think tanks to issue pro-Taiwan articles. MOFA vehemently denied these accusations in a  press release , saying the entire report was “pulled out of thin air and groundless.” Since Taiwan and Somaliland mutually set up representative offices in 2020, the governments of the two countries have promoted programs that benefit the people of Somaliland, including agriculture, information communications, education, and medical care, the foreign ministry said. The programs are rec...
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Location: Berbera, Somalia
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