Mogadishu- Mayor and Governor of Banadir region Eng. Abdirahman Omar Osman congratulated the Somali Police Force on the capture of some of the fake documents in Mogadishu. The governor pointed out that the Banadir Regional Administration was implementing the Provincial Government, the legal representative offices required by the public and passed over to accountability. “We

Photo/Somali Times Mogadishu-A witness says a Somali lawmaker has been wounded after an explosive device planted under the seat of his car exploded in Mogadishu on Saturday night. The MP, Mohamed Mursal Mohamud, known as Barrow sustained critical wounds in the blast which happened near the country’s national theatre, according to police sources. The latest

Muscat: In an interview, Kiprono Kittony, National Chairman of the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce & Industry, expressed his country’s interest in the Omani market and its keenness to make use of the Omani Products Exhibition (Opex) 2018 in Kenya from October 29 to November 1, 2018. Excerpts: How important is the visit of the

An Egyptian criminal court ordered the arrest of ousted President Hosni Mubarak’s two sons on charges of stock market manipulation, state news agency MENA reported Saturday. Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, with seven other businessmen, are accused of violating stock market and central bank rules to make unlawful profits through dealing in shares of Al Watany

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – A new report says Ethiopia‘s air force has killed about 70 al-Shabab extremists in an airstrike in neighboring Somalia. The state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate says the airstrike was meant to thwart an al-Shabaab attack on an Ethiopian contingent of the multinational African Union force. The report says “two vehicles packed with weapons”

Super Typhoon Mangkhut smashed through the Philippines on Saturday, as the biggest storm to hit the region this year claimed the lives of its first victims and forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. Roughly four million people were in the path of destruction the storm slashed through the northern tip of Luzon

Cargill will pay $1.5 million to 138 terminated employees to resolve charges that the company’s managers violated the Civil Rights Act by refusing to allow Somali-American Muslim workers to pray during their breaks at a meatpacking plant in Colorado, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Friday. The commission found reasonable cause to believe Somali,

The U.S. will proceed with $200 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports, according to a report on Friday, a move that reignites a trade war between the world’s two largest economies. U.S. President Donald Trump met with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Thursday, the report

The Somali economy is projected to grow at an annual rate of between 3 and 4 percent, the World Bank said in a report released on Thursday,According to the World Bank’s third Somalia Economic Update (SEU), the country’s economy grew by an estimated 2.3 percent in 2017, down from 4.4 percent in 2016, reflecting the

Briefing the Security Council for the last time in his capacity as UN Special Representative for Somalia, Michael Keating called on all Somalis to draw strength from the positive transformations going on inside the country and work collectively for the common good.“The future of Somalia is in the hands of the Somalis,” he declared. In