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President Trump on Sunday announced that Islamic State (Isis) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died following a US raid in northwestern Syria this weekend. The attack, which had been planned for five months, was staged by Army Delta Force commandos in what Trump described as a daring mission. Baghdadi…

Kenya’s Valary Jemeli Aiyabei on Sunday won the 2019 edition of the Frankfurt Marathon after leading from gun to tape. Jemeli fended off stiff competition from Ethiopians to complete the 42-kilometer race in 2 hours 19 minutes 10 seconds. Ethiopian’s Alemu Kebede settled for silver after clocking…

(AP) — Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper’s son who rose to become the powerful chairman of a U.S. House committee that investigated President Donald Trump, died early Thursday of complications from longstanding health issues, his office said. He was 68. Cummings was a formidable…

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was on Friday announced as the winner of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. The prize was granted to Abiy in recognition for his efforts in bringing to an end a conflict with neighboring Eritrea that lasted for more than two decades. “The Norwegian Nobel Committee has…

Somali-born US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has filed for divorce from her husband over what she termed as an "irretrievable breakdown" of their marriage. Ms. Omar filed for divorce from Ahmed Hirsi on Friday in Minnesota's Hennepin County District Court, according to Washington Post. The petition,…

The United States has finally relocated its Somalia Embassy from Nairobi to Mogadishu.  The US reopened its Embassy in Mogadishu on Wednesday, close to 30 years after it closed it following the break out of a civil war in the Horn of Africa country. In a statement, the American Embassy in…

The late former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe asked his wife Grace to guard his remains once he passes away to protect them from ‘rituals.’ This was revealed by family spokesman Leo Mugabe, the former president's nephew, according to France24. Leo said that Mugabe feared that his body would be…

The Al-Shabaab militia group claimed responsibility for an attack on a United States military base in Somalia on Monday. Al-Shabaab militants struck the US base located in Baledogle, about 110 kilometers northwest of the capital Mogadishu, with explosives before gunmen opened fire, AFP reported. No…

Former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was on Saturday finally laid to rest three weeks after his death. The 95-year-old was buried in the courtyard of his home in Kutama, the rural village where he was born. Kutama is located 55 miles west of the country’s capital, Harare. Mugabe passed away in a…

Former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe will not be buried at National Heroes Acre in Harare as earlier planned, the government announced. Mugabe will be laid to rest in his hometown of Zvimba, located in the outskirts of the country’s capital, Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Information said in a…