Washington has said a visit by Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau to Africa aims to strengthen bilateral ties, but the timing raises questions about the US’s interests in the Red Sea corridor. US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau is on a diplomatic tour of Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti from January 24 to February 1. According to the Department of State, Landau’s…
Israel’s foreign minister has held talks with Somaliland’s president on his first visit to the breakaway region since Israel controversially recognised it as an independent country. Gideon Saar said Israel was determined to advance relations with Somaliland “with momentum”, while President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi hailed his visit as a “big day”. Last month Israel became…
More than one million South Africans, about 1.6% of the country’s population of 63 million, currently live overseas. Emigration is never a solitary event or a purely economic decision. When one person leaves, an entire network of relationships is reshaped. This means that parents, grandparents, siblings and friends are left behind, making it challenging to…
Kismayo, Somalia — Kenya’s Defence Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya flew to Somalia on Friday to visit Kenyan troops serving under the African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM), officials said. Tuya arrived in the southern port city of Kismayo accompanied by senior Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) officers, led by Lieutenant General David Ketter,…
Stuttgart, Germany — Gen. Dagvin Anderson, the Commander of U.S. Africa Command, began the first leg of a series of high-level visits to Africa this week, with stops in Ethiopia and in Somalia’s member states of Somaliland and Puntland. His message was clear: the United States supports maximum pressure on ISIS, al-Shabaab, and other violent…
Stuttgart, Germany — Gen. Dagvin Anderson, commander, U.S. Africa Command, visited Morocco Oct. 20-21, highlighting the longstanding and deep partnership between the United States and the Kingdom of Morocco. This visit, which underscored the strategic importance of Morocco and shared interests on the continent, followed Anderson’s recent assumption of command and provided an opportunity to…
Israeli lawmakers on Wednesday voted to advance two proposed bills that call for the formal annexation of the already Israeli-occupied West Bank, an ambition openly promoted by far-right ministers in recent months but opposed by President Trump. The vote by Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, came with Vice President JD Vance visiting Israel to shore up…
A state visit always sends a buzz through the newsroom — and U.S. President Donald Trump’s trip to the U.K. next week looks set to deliver royal, political and business headlines, despite being his second such visit. U.S. President Donald Trump inspected an honour guard during a welcome ceremony at Buckingham Palace in central London…
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Saturday visited a Christian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and urged accountability for an attack on an ancient church, which residents have blamed on Israeli settlers. In early July, the village of Taybeh was hit by an arson attack in the area of the ruins of the…
