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...His latest, The Achilles Trap, is a richly detailed tale of four US presidents and their inability to contain Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein....
...He has chosen northern Muslim Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed as his running mate, a formula that has proven successful in the past....
...The call was to give them ammunition and organise them under the command of the Somali army,” says Hussein Sheikh-Ali, the national security adviser....
...Abubakar — at 75, six years older than Tinubu — has presented himself as a pro-business candidate, though he elicits little public excitement....
...Hussein Ahmed had already founded two companies and sold them for a decent profit when he enrolled on the executive MBA at Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley in 2017....
...There are currently 33 Turkish military and intelligence bases in Iraq, with about 4,000 soldiers at last count, Iraq’s foreign minister Fuad Hussein says....
...About eight years ago, Prince Hamzah bin Hussein brought an idea to his half-brother, the King of Jordan....
...The 22 individuals include Ashraf Seed Ahmed Hussein Ali, a Sudanese businessman who has been accused of misappropriating state assets, and Atul, Ajay and Rajesh Gupta, who have been linked to corruption...
...Fighting has begun in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray after prime minister Abiy Ahmed sent federal troops to quell a rebellion in a move that threatens to bring Africa’s second most populous country...
...By the end of the year, Saddam Hussein was dead but bin Laden was still nowhere to be found. Afghanistan was very much yesterday’s war....
...It’s treasonous,” said Redwan Hussein, spokesman for the State of Emergency Task Force for the Tigray Crisis....
...Kuwait faced an existential crisis when Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime invaded in 1990....
...“For the TPLF against Abiy Ahmed.”...
...Redwan Hussein, spokesman for the State of Emergency Task Force for the Tigray Crisis, said on Thursday that his government is “not happy” with Mr Tedros’s position....
...“Kurds did not invent corruption,” says Sadi Ahmed Pire, a PUK spokesperson....
Limited reshuffle as Riyadh tries to ease Houthi tensions in Yemen conflict
...When energy markets reopened after the strikes, oil prices soared by as much as 20 per cent — the biggest percentage jump since Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990....
...Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister, has developed a habit of making political gestures that reverberate around the continent....
...“We were expecting the liberation would bring us hope and job opportunities but the opposite happened,” said Ahmed Mahmoud, 40. “We lost our jobs.”...
...Anas offers a portrait of his comrade Ahmed Shah Massoud, the Afghan jihad’s Napoleonic hero....
...The sale, which has been several years in the planning, comes weeks after prime minister Abiy Ahmed broke with decades of Marxist-rooted government policy in sub-Sahara Africa’s fastest-growing economy and...
...Adel Abdul-Mahdi, the prime minister designate, and Barham Salih, the new president, are respected veterans of post-Saddam Hussein politics. Mr Adbul-Mahdi has 30 days to pick a cabinet....
...Lake Chad basin Divided group is part of a regional insurgency In 2016, Boko Haram split into two factions, one loyal to leader Abubakar Shekau, who had succeeded the late founder Mohammed Yusuf, and the...
...Yet after years of popular uprisings and state repression, that is exactly what Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s new 41-year-old leader, has done....
...The unrest over joblessness and water and electricity shortages underlines the fragility of the state of Opec’s second-largest oil producer, 15 years after the US-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein....
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