Chinese envoy promises cooperation during meeting with Somalia’s minister of fisheries

Somalia’s Minister of Fisheries and Maritime Resources Abdullahi Bidhan Warsame recently met with Chinese Ambassador Qin Jian to discuss deepening the two countries’ fisheries connections. Warsame said he would be interested receiving Chinese fisheries training and investments in infrastructure such as cold-chain, fish ports, processing facilities, and preparing products for export in exchange for allowing

Read More

Suicide car bombers kill at least 17 near hotel in Somali capital city

Suicide attackers set off two car bombs at a hotel near the headquarters of Somalia’s Criminal Investigations Department in Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least 17 people, police said.Guards at Hotel Sahafi and CID officers opened fire after the blasts, police added. Then, about 20 minutes later, a third explosion hit the busy street, witnesses

Read More

Space Force Considered as Ethiopia Overhauls Defense Capabilities

Landlocked nation in talks with nations to build naval base ,Ethiopia to rewrite part of foreign, national security policy, Ethiopia is considering adding a space force to its defense capabilities in a process to modernize the country’s military. The changes are part of broader political and economic reforms Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed began implementing after

Read More

‘Terrorist’ on stabbing rampage shot dead in Melbourne

A Somali man went on a stabbing rampage in the city of Melbourne on Friday after driving a car laden with gas cylinders up on a footpath, where it caught fire, and police said they are treating the attack as terrorism. The man stabbed three people, one fatally, before he was shot by police. He

Read More

Somali president and his delegation arrive in Ethiopia

The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia HE Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and his delegation arrived in Gondar, where they will travel to the town of Bahr Dare in Ethiopia. President Mohamed will attend a three-day conference with Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed and the President of Eritrea Isaias Afwerki. The delegation was part

Read More

Saudi Arabia’s War on Yemen Has Been a Political, Financial and Diplomatic Disaster

Saudi Arabia and its allies are desperate to cease fire in Yemen, but they want a major victory to continue their interfering role in talks over the fate of the country before holding fire; otherwise, they will earn nothing, but utmost humiliation after years of bombing a poor, defenseless nation. It’s now several months they

Read More

13 dead included gunman after mass shooting in southern California bar

A hooded gunman dressed entirely in black opened fire on a crowd at a country dance bar holding a weekly “college night” in Southern California, killing 12 people and sending hundreds fleeing including some who used barstools to break windows and escape, authorities said Thursday. The gunman — identified as 28-year-old veteran Ian David Long

Read More

Benadir regional administration orders charities to register administration to identify their activities.

Benadir regional administration called on aid agencies operating in the Benadir region to contact the regional administration to identify their activities. Benadir governor and mayor of Mogadishu, Eng  Abdirahman Omar Osman , said the Benadir The administration will take action against the charities without registered in Mogadishu. Eng, Osman pointed out that Mogadishu has been in

Read More

Opinion: Strong, fair trade with China critical to Africa’s development

The Africa-China relationship can best be described as comprehensive and strategic at this stage. This is primarily due to multiple agreements reached between the two parties at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, as well as other bilateral deals reached between China and individual African nations. As the Chinese economy grows, African countries collectively benefit from

Read More

EU asks “level playing field” of Britain in case of all-UK Irish backstop – sources

The European Union wants Britain to stick to the bloc’s rules on state aid, environment and workers’ rights after Brexit to prevent it from gaining unfair access to the Europeans’ single market, diplomatic sources and officials told Reuters. The EU sees this as key to ensuring a “level playing field” should the so-called Irish border

Read More