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ADDIS ABABA (HORNOB SERVANT) - Mrs Fiona Lortan has been appointed Deputy Special Representative of the President of the African Union Commission (DSRCC) just months after Somalia declared its predecessor Simon Mulongo a persona non by ordering him to leave the country before seven days. In a statement, the African Union Commission for Political Affairs, Peace and Security said that the new AU Special Representative was, until her current appointment, Acting Director of Conflict Management in the Political Affairs Peace…

BELEDWEYNE (AXADLE) - Somalia's Hirshabelle President Ali Gudlawe Hussein has arrived on Sunday for his first ever visit to Baladweyne City. BELEDWEYNE (AXADLE) - Somalia's Hirshabelle President Ali Gudlawe Hussein has arrived on Sunday for his first ever visit to Baladweyne City.The president and his delegation were received by Hirshabelle officials led by his deputy Yusuf Daba-geed and Hiiraan regional officials.Gudlawe is expected to hold talks with politicians, elders and intellectuals in Beledweyne city.The leader…

Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and Somali Media Association (SOMA) call on the Galmudug authorities to investigate their Darwish police force for the raid on Sooyaal TV and Radio, a local independent media station in Abudwak city, Galgadud region, and beatings and detention director Mahad Bashir Osman for interviewing a group of police officers who went on strike on Sunday over unpaid wages. Around noon on Sunday, January 30, the heavily armed Darwish Force raided the radio station, beating…

MOGADISHU (HORNOB SERVANT) - A Swiss citizen Abdikarin Ahmedsalan Abdi, who lives in Graubünden, has succeeded in gaining protection of the terrorist group in Somalia after paying the group to threaten two defenseless families in Mogadishu, whose underage girls were raped by Abdis . adult son Mohamed Abdikarin Ahmedsalan. According to the families of the victims, the two girls, aged 10 and 11, were living with their grandmother in the Wardhigley district of Mogadishu when Ahmedsalan raped…

MOGADISHU (AXADLE) - Somalia's escalating drought is creating a massive displacement crisis. 245,000 people have already fled their homes, and the number is expected to reach 1.4 million as the drought worsens. "Somalia's drought is escalating dangerously after three failed rainy seasons and some of the lowest rainfall in 40 years," said Mohamed Abdi, country director of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in Somalia. "Without urgent preventive action to remedy the crisis, lives will be lost."…

Premier League and iconic strikers go hand in hand. Thierry Henry. Alan Shearer. Ruud van Nistelrooy. The checklist goes on and on.There is not any scarcity of lethal scorers in England's high league without delay both. So, ought to we rank the Premier League's high ten forwards of their present kind? Let's get into 90 minute placements ...Sterling is in electrical kind / Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA / GettyImagesRaheem Sterling is basically wanting again at his finest this season and marks his return to Man City's begin XI…

The Premier League is house to quite a few unbelievable midfielders and the perfect factor is that there's a participant who fits everybody's wants. Destructive quantity 4, playmaking quantity six, dynamic quantity eight and silky quantity ten. You identify it, the Premier League has it.But who's the icing on the cake? Here are 90mins prime 10 PL midfielders in present kind ...Coutinho is in form / Marc Atkins / GettyImagesCoutinho is again within the Premier League and again to his greatest. The attacking midfielder was…

Mogadishu (AXADLE) - Somali and Djibouti governments have deported more than 387 Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) members over the past 20 years, the group's spokesman confirmed. ONLF is a rebel group that had been fighting Ethiopian forces in the east of the country for more than three decades to secede from Ethiopia. Abdikadir Hassan Hirmoge spoke to the BBC Somali Service, a spokesman for the ONLF, and said that at least top officials from the group in Mogadishu had been handed over to…

MOGADISHU (Horn Observer) - At least 20 al-Shabaab militants have been killed and several others wounded in security operations in central Somalia, the Somali National Army confirmed on Wednesday. SNA chief Yussuf Odawa Rage told state-owned media that forces destroyed bases belonging to al-Shabaab militants in areas between the towns of Dhusamareeb and Guriel in the Galgaduud region. According to Rage, the forces dismantled explosives planted on the road between the two cities."Somali army has…

It has been stated that the artwork of defending has been misplaced in the fashionable Premier League. However, it's extra correct to say that what is predicted of defenders has modified. The 4 rear ones not have the only real process of holding clear.Now defenders play more and more essential roles in possession, whether or not it's to begin strikes with lengthy passes or to bomb the wings and create aim possibilities. Here are the highest 10 Premier League defenders on this courageous new world at once ...Coady scored…