File – Shoppers walk along Oxford Street during the Boxing Day sales in London, Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023. Inflation across the United Kingdom increased unexpectedly last month as a result of sharp hike in tobacco and alcohol prices. The Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, that inflation, as measured by (AP

The federal government of Somalia has today taken a serious step against Ethiopia as it recently banned the Ethiopian Airlines from Somalia, according to official sources told Somali Times. Reports say that the order was issued by the Somali Civil Aviation Authority based in Mogadishu, which turned back the plane that was carrying the Ethiopian

Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a ministerial statement titled “Defending the UK and our allies in a more dangerous world” in the House of Commons, in London, Britain January 15, 2024. UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/Handout via Reuters/File Photo By Reuters British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces a major parliamentary showdown on Wednesday over his plan

By Business Daily Africa Air Tanzania has secured coveted cargo rights in Kenya, while Kenya Airways saw its passenger route between Nairobi and Dar es Salaam restored, in a swift resolution to a brief diplomatic row. Following a request from Tanzania, the Kenyan authorities granted Air Tanzania the Fifth Freedom Traffic Right for all-cargo services,

Mohammed Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, son of Somalia’s President, was convicted on Tuesday of causing a fatal traffic accident in Istanbul and sentenced to a fine, concluding a high-profile case that drew international attention. Mohamoud’s diplomatic car collided with a motorcycle courier, Yunus Emre Gocer, on a highway in Istanbul on November 30th. Gocer died six

A Kenya Airways flight approaches landing at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. Credit to Photo/NMG By The Associated Press Tanzania on Monday announced it had withdrawn approval for neighbouring Kenya’s flagship carrier Kenya Airways to operate a passenger service between the countries beginning next week. A statement from the Tanzanian Civil Aviation authority

By Anadolu Agency Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at positions of “terrorist groups” in Syria and Iraq late Monday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement. The IRGC said a “spy headquarters” and a “gathering of anti-Iran terrorist groups” in Syria were destroyed with ballistic missiles, as cited by state

File Photo/Somali Times Somalia’s prime minister warned Ethiopia on Sunday not to intervene in Somali territories. In a statement during a program in the capital Mogadishu, Hamza Abdi Barre emphasized that a sea access agreement signed earlier this month between Ethiopia and Hargeisa administration is void. He stressed that if Ethiopia intervenes in Somali territories,

A container ship crosses an oil platform at the Gulf of Suez towards the Red Sea before entering the Suez Canal, outside of Cairo, Egypt September 1, 2020. Photographer Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo By Reuters Oil prices edged up on Monday as traders watched for supply disruption risks in the Middle East following strikes by

Kenya’s President William Ruto and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni having a talk at state house Uganda during a past meeting. By The East African President William Ruto plans to meet his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni to resolve the fuel import dispute that saw Kampala take Nairobi to the East African Court of Justice (EACJ).