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Wararka naga soo gaaraya gobolka Galgaduud ayaa sheegaya in xalay maleeshiyaad hubeysan ay dil ka gaysteen inta u dhexeysa magaalooyinka Godinlabe iyo Cadaado ee gobolkaasi, kaas oo loo gaystay nin iyo xaaskiisa. Marxuumka oo kasoo jeeday dhanka Cadaado ayaa waxaa lagu magacaabi jiray Cilmi Cumar, waxaana lala dilay marwadiisa xilli ay ku sugnaayeen hoygooda. Wararka ayaa intaasi kusii daray in maleeshiyaadka dilka gaystay ay kasoo jeedaan dhinaca Dhusuamareeb, isla markaana ay baxsadeen kadib dhacdadaasi. Falkan ayaa la xiriira aano qabiil, waxaana lasoo wariyay in ragga weerarka gaystay ayaa sidoo kale dab qabad siiyeen guriga ay ku dileen marxuumka iyo naagtiisa.

European Union antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager has scored two major wins as Europe’s top court has backed her crackdown against Apple’s Irish tax deal and Google’s anticompetitive practices in two landmark cases. Vestager, who ends her term in November, has made a name for herself going after Big Tech’s tax arrangements with some EU countries and attempts to stifle smaller rivals. The court victories, which were announced on Tuesday, could embolden her successor to take a similar tack. The antitrust chief cheered the judgements. “Today is a huge win for European citizens and tax justice,” she said on X of the Apple ruling while also praising the Google judgement as a big win for digital fairness. The European Commission in 2016 ordered Apple to pay 13 billion euros ($14.4bn) in...

Petition by ex-antiquities minister asks for the return of the bust, saying it was removed from Egypt illegally in early 1900s. Prominent Egyptian archaeologist and former Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass has launched a petition for the return to Egypt of the pharaonic bust of Queen Nefertiti from the Neues Museum in Berlin. Nefertiti’s famous painted limestone bust was uncovered at Tell el-Amarna, about 300km (185 miles) south of Cairo, in 1912 by a German archaeological mission, which shipped it to Berlin the following year. Amarna was the short-lived capital of Nefertiti’s husband, the 18th dynasty Pharaoh Akhenaten, who reigned until about 1335 BC. Akhenaten, called the heretic king, was notorious for promoting the worship of the god Aten to the exclusion of Egypt’s other g...

7"Sept"2024" African countries could raise their GDP by at least $24 billion annually and create 2.3 million jobs through manufacturing and creating favourable trade policies, by investing more in the production of transition minerals. This is according to new economic modelling from civil society network Publish What You Pay. Transition minerals are touted to help industries move away from fossil fuels, because they are useful in the construction of green energy tools and power sources. East African Community member countries have many of those --copper, lithium, nickel, and cobalt-- found in Uganda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania. Based on governments’ current stated policies, demand for key transition minerals that Africa produces is expected to rise rap...

Waxaa magaalada Abidjan ee dalka Ivory Coast lagu soo gabagabeeyay Kalfadhiga 10-aad ee gaarka ah ee Shirka Wasiirada Afrika ee Cimilada ee marka la soo gaabiyo loo yaqaano AMCEN. Mawduuca sanadkan looga hadlayay Kalfadhiga ayaa wqxaa hal-ku-dhigiisu u ahaa “Kor u qaadista Hamiga, qorshaha iyo Dardar gelinta Wax ka qabashada Abaaraha iyo La-dagaallanka xaalufka Dhulka,” Shir madaxeedkan ayaa waxaa isugu yimid madax kala duwan oo ka kala socotay wadamada Afrika, Wakiilo ka socday hay’adda cimilada Adduunka ee Qaramada Midoobay UNEP, dublamaasiyiin iyo ururo caalami ah si ay uga wada hadlaan hawlaha muhiimka ah ee quseeya cimilada, gaar ahaan xaalufka dhulka, ka hortaga abaaraha iyo xaalufinta dhirta. Shirkaan waxaa dhanka Soomaaliya uga qayb galay Danjiraha Soomaaliya u fadhiya dal...

Nkurunziza Alphonse knows that every time he goes out to protest, he could get arrested, even detained for a lengthy period in Kampala’s maximum security prison. It has happened before. Still, as he sat in a courtroom on Tuesday, watching another batch of protesters arraigned, Alphonse said he has no plans to stop marching. The 25-year-old student is one of scores of people detained in recent months by Ugandan authorities for demonstrating against an oil pipeline project. The nearly 1,445km (898-mile) long East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) will stretch from Uganda to Tanzania’s coast, transporting crude. It is set to be the longest heated-oil pipeline in the world. However, activists say it will displace thousands, destroy wetlands and contaminate water sources China ...

The President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who held a joint press conference in Ankara with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, emphasized the importance of maintaining the unity and territorial integrity of Somalia. The president stressed on supporting the efforts to stabilize the region, pointing out that the growing challenges in the region reinforce the need for cooperation between the countries of the region. The presidents of Turkey and Egypt have realized that they will defend the unity and territorial independence of Somalia, after a meeting they held today in Ankara. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi visited Ankara for an official trip - his first since taking office ten years ago. Sisi was invited by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had ...

Uganda’s Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died four days after being set on fire by her boyfriend, the country’s Olympic chief said. “We have learnt of the sad passing on of our Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei … following a vicious attack by her boyfriend,” Uganda Olympic Committee (UOC) President Donald Rukare said in a post on X on Thursday The 33-year-old succumbed to the burns she suffered when her boyfriend poured petrol on her and set her ablaze in Kenya, making her the third female athlete to be killed in the country since October 2021. “[Cheptegei] passed today morning after her organs failed,” Owen Menach, senior director of clinical services at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH), told the Reuters news agency, adding that a full report regarding th...

African leaders are converging in China this week for an anticipated high-level meeting with President Xi Jinping as Beijing continues to befriend and expand its influence on the continent amid a silent face-off with Western countries. The China-Africa summit, which will last from September 4 to 6, will see leaders of African countries meet and discuss policies and cooperation agreements with officials from the continent’s biggest lender and investor. Those agreements will set the tone for the two side’s burgeoning relations for the next few years. In a statement, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the conference is the “largest diplomatic event” the country has hosted in recent years with the highest attendance of foreign leaders, adding that it was a “grand reunion of th...

North America is their top destination, followed by the UK, France, Germany and Spain in Western Europe. Nearly 60 percent of young Africans want to leave their countries because their governments are not reining in corruption, according to a new poll of youth across 16 African nations. They cited corruption as the biggest obstacle to progress, according to the 2024 African Youth Survey published on Tuesday. The poll commissioned by the Johannesburg-based Ichikowitz Family Foundation surveyed 5,604 people between the ages of 18 and 24 in Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Somalia Zambia. Eighty-three percent of them said they are concerned about corruption at...