British Prime Minister Theresa May said Wednesday that further progress has been made in Brexit negotiations following a lengthy meeting with EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels. “We have had a very good meeting this evening. We have made further progress, and as a result, we have given sufficient direction to our negotiators,” May

A Paris-based human rights group on Wednesday announced it has filed a criminal complaint against the crown prince of Abu Dhabi for his role in the devastating war in Yemen. Joseph Breham, a lawyer of the International Alliance for Defence of Rights and Freedoms (AIDL), told reporters that the group was suing Mohammed bin Zayed

A UAE court sentenced a British academic to life in prison on charges of spying for the British government on Wednesday, in a move Britain said would have serious diplomatic consequences for relations between the old allies. The United Arab Emirates public prosecutor said the sentence was handed down on Matthew Hedges “after the accused

Gunmen kidnapped an Italian volunteer and wounded a woman and four children in Kenya late on Tuesday, police and witnesses said – the first abduction of a foreigner there since raids blamed on Somali Islamist militants six years ago. Men armed with AK-47 rifles seized the 23-year-old woman from a guesthouse in Chakama, near Kenya’s

The once vibrant Kenya-Somalia border point in Mandera town that has remained closed for several years could soon be reopened. This follows improved security brought about by the ongoing construction of a border wall that has covered nearly 20km since the work started in 2015. A security team led by parliamentary Committee on Defence and

Israel and Somaliland have much in common. Israel faces many adversaries that don’t recognize it or its right to self-determination; Somaliland is also unrecognized as a state by most countries. Both share a history with Britain. The British defeated the Ottoman Empire, captured Palestine and later established treaties with the Jewish people in Israel. Somaliland

The US military says it has carried out air strikes against al-Shabab in Somalia, killing at least 37 suspected fighters. In a statement on Tuesday, the US Africa Command (US AFRICOM) said the two strikes on Monday took place near Debatscile. “Air strikes reduce al-Shabab’s ability to plot future attacks, disrupt its leadership networks, and

Regional government asks aid agencies to scale up emergency response to the humanitarian crisis. Over 200,000 people fled ethnic conflict to camps in the Somali region of Ethiopia since July. This pushes the total to over 700,000 that fled inter-communal violence in recent years, according to the latest Displacement Tracking Matrix for Ethiopia. Most came

LONDON (Reuters) – Amid international uproar over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, some members of Saudi Arabia’s ruling family are agitating to prevent Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman from becoming king, three sources close to the royal court said. Dozens of princes and cousins from powerful branches of the Al Saud family want to

President Uhuru Kenyatta has Monday directed the State Department of Fisheries and the National Land Commission to repossess all public fish landing sites that were illegally acquired by unscrupulous people. The President said that all gazetted fish landing sites at the coast, in lakes Victoria and Turkana and any other lakes or rivers in the