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President Biden to visit Angola next month

By Daanyaal Matthews President of the United States, Joe Biden, has announced that he will be visiting Angola next month, marking the first time the western leader visits the African continent. The president is set to discuss economic ties with the Angolan president, João Lourenço, and the possible establishment of the first transcontinental open-access rail network connecting the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This announcement has sparked conversation on what the […]

26 September 2024

International

US to build military industrial base in Morocco

US President Joe Biden has instructed Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin to prepare an emergency plan to establish an American military industrial base in the Kingdom of Morocco, the New York Daily News has reported. The plan was proposed during a high-level meeting at the end of December when Biden and Austin discussed America's new global military strategy. Biden has told Austin to push the Pentagon to facilitate the logistical and legal aspects […]

17 January 2023

International

The US military operation in Somalia, explained

INTERNATIONAL Ahead of a trip to Saudi Arabia this year, US President Joe Biden said he would be the first president to visit the Middle East since 9/11 "without US troops engaged in a combat mission there". But the lack of troops in action has not stopped the US from maintaining a military presence in the region, and one area where this is perhaps most pertinent is Somalia, a country […]

26 November 2022

International

Saudi FM denies MBS privately derided US President Biden

Relations between the US and Saudi Arabia have nosedived after the kingdom and OPEC+ countries decided to cut oil supply earlier this month. Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud has denied that Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman had privately derided United States President Joe Biden, or told aides he was unimpressed by him and favoured former US leader Donald Trump. “These allegations made by anonymous sources are […]

25 October 2022

International

US approves potential $3bn in defence sale to Kuwait- Pentagon

The US State Department has approved the potential sale of the National Advanced Surface-To-Air Missile System (NASAMS) and Medium Range Air Defence System to Kuwait in a deal valued at an estimated $3 billion, the Pentagon said yesterday, Reuters reports. "The proposed sale will improve Kuwait's capability to meet current and future threats by enhancing the ability to defend itself against regional malign actors and improve interoperability with systems operated by U.S. […]

8 October 2022

International

Iran receives US response to EU nuclear text for revival of 2015 pact

Iran has received Washington's response to an EU-drafted final offer for saving Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with major powers, Iran's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, giving no firm indication of how close they are to narrowing remaining gaps Reuters reports. After 16 months of fitful, indirect US-Iran talks, with EU officials shuttling between the sides, EU Foreign Policy Chief, Josep Borrell said on 8 August the bloc had laid down a final […]

25 August 2022

International

Gunman kills four in Oklahoma medical centre, police say

A man armed with a rifle and a handgun killed four people inside a medical building in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Wednesday before fatally shooting himself, police said, in the latest of a series of mass shootings to rattle the US. Police arrived at the St. Francis Hospital campus three minutes after receiving a call about the shooting on Wednesday afternoon and followed the sound of gunfire up to the Natalie […]

2 June 2022

International

Iran calls for UN action on US over killing of Qassem Soleimani

Tehran, Iran – Iran has called on the United Nations to take formal action against the United States for the assassination of its top general two years ago. Iran says Qassem Soleimani, the then-commander of the elite Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was in Iraq’s capital Baghdad on a diplomatic mission when his convoy was destroyed by missiles fired from a US drone. In a letter to […]

2 January 2022

International News

US freezes Afghan central bank’s assets of $9.5bn

The U.S. has frozen nearly $9.5 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank and stopped shipments of cash to the nation as it tries to keep a Taliban-led government from accessing the money, an administration official confirmed Tuesday. The official said that any central bank assets that the Afghan government has in the U.S. will not be available to the Taliban, which remains on the Treasury Department’s sanctions […]

18 August 2021

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