Hamas has claimed ‘victory’ but the group’s success lies more in ‘marginalizing Fatah than in battle’
Under the rubble, my children were screaming, and I heard them. Their voices stopped one after another
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May 23, 2021 01:07
GAZA: After touring rubble-strewn areas of Gaza hit by airstrikes during fighting between Israel and Hamas, the top UN aid official in the region appealed to both sides on Saturday to observe a ceasefire as aid teams assess the damage.
The ceasefire, which began early on Friday, ended 11 days of Israeli aerial attacks and barrages of rockets fired at Israel by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.
Former Interim President of Somalia Passes Away in Nairobi
Mogadishu (PP News Desk) Ali Mahdi Mohamed, a former Interim President of Somalia and one-time hotelier, has passed away in a Nairobi hospital. The cause of the death was Covid-19. United Somali Congress installed Ali Mahdi as an Interim President in 1991, shortly after the overthrow of the military regime led by Mohammed Siad Barre. He was a member of the USC Central Committee.
Although his political clout waned Ali Mahdi Mohammed was critical of the incumbent Federal Government of Somalia.
Born in 1938, Mahdi was a key signatory of the historic 1990 Manifesto that called for Siyad Barre to relinquish power. General Mohammed Farah Aidid, a leader of USC military wing, had objected to the nomination of Ali Mahdi as an Interim President in July 1991 in Djibouti where reconciliation conference was held for representatives of Somalia’s armed opposition organisations.