Ships Positioned on Somalia’s Coast for US Troops’ Drawdown

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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–12/makkin.jpg?imwidth=800The Pen­ta­gon has sent sev­er­al naval ves­sels and a marine expe­di­tionary unit to the coast of Soma­lia to sup­port an oper­a­tion repo­si­tion­ing hun­dreds of U.S. troops to bases else­where in East Africa.  The USS Makin Island Amphibi­ous Ready Group and

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Number of journalists killed for their reporting doubled in 2020

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Decem­ber 22, 2020 This sto­ry, plus Con­gress expands pay­roll assis­tance to local news out­lets, News­max issues a clar­i­fi­ca­tion about claims that a vot­ing soft­ware com­pa­ny manip­u­lat­ed elec­tion results, and more, all in today’s media head­lines. Top Sto­ries­Me­dia BusinessPress &

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Navy Warship’s Secret Mission Off West Africa Aims to Help Punish Venezuela

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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/12/18/us/politics/00dc-military1/00dc-military1-moth.jpgAdver­tise­ment Con­tin­ue read­ing the main sto­ry Sup­port­ed by Con­tin­ue read­ing the main sto­ryNavy Warship’s Secret Mis­sion Off West Africa Aims to Help Pun­ish Venezuela The tale of the cruis­er San Jac­in­to under­scores the Trump administration’s ani­mus toward Venezuela and how the post­elec­tion purge of

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A dangerous backtrack on the US-Mexico security relationship

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https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/mexico_amlo_002.jpg?w=270 On Tues­day, the Mex­i­can Con­gress passed a new law severe­ly restrict­ing the oper­a­tions of for­eign law enforce­ment agents in Mex­i­co. It is clear­ly direct­ed at the Unit­ed States in retal­i­a­tion for the U.S. arrest of Mexico’s for­mer Sec­re­tary of Defense Sal­vador Cien­fue­gos on drug traf­fick­ing and cor­rup­tion charges at the Los Ange­les air­port in…

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Uganda election: False claims about Joe Biden and others

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share­Sharen­o­close­Share pagelinkCopy link­About shar­ing image copy­right­Get­ty Images With Ugan­da’s elec­tions due in Jan­u­ary, there’s plen­ty of mis­in­for­ma­tion being shared in a heat­ed cam­paign which has seen seri­ous vio­lence. Pres­i­dent Yow­eri Musev­eni, in pow­er since

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Review: Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City, Accra

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https://liveandletsfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Kempinski-Gold-Coast-Accra-Pool-738x355.jpeg If you look­ing for the best hotel in Accra, this is the place. I enjoyed a tremen­dous stay at the Kempin­s­ki Hotel Gold Coast City and would not hes­i­tate to return. Kempin­s­ki Hotel Gold Coast City Accra Review

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Africa in the news: Kenya and Nigeria updates

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https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/shutterstock_1068814604_small.jpg?w=240Kenya and Unit­ed King­dom sign trade deal  Ear­li­er this month, Kenya signed a trade deal with the Unit­ed King­dom, an agree­ment that will help Kenya avoid dis­rup­tions once the U.K. begins to tran­si­tion out of the Euro­pean Union on December

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