File Photo Somali Times/Somalia shady president Hassan Sheikh Eurasia Review By Dr. Suleiman Walhad The vision of the EAC is “To be a prosperous, competitive, secure, stable and politically united East Africa”. The EAC represents seven countries at present from East and Central Africa. Yet the name remains the East Africa Community, despite it overlooking

Coco Gauff, of the United States, holds up the championship trophy after defeating Aryna Sabalenka, of Belarus, in the women’s singles final of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) By The Associated Press Coco Gauff is still a teenager, after all, and so it should

Taliban soldiers celebrate on the second anniversary of the fall of Kabul on a street near the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2023. Reuters/Ali Khara/File Photo By Reuters Methamphetamine trafficking in and around Afghanistan has surged in recent years, even as the Taliban has curbed heroin trafficking since taking power, a United Nations

By Anadolu Agency At least 2,012 people were killed and 2,059 injured following a powerful earthquake that struck Morocco, the country’s Interior Ministry said Saturday. The injuries include 1,404 critical cases. Fatalities from the magnitude-7 quake occurred in various regions, including El-Houz, Taroudant, Chichaoua, Tiznit, Marrakech, Azilal, Agadir, Casablanca and Youssoufia, the ministry said in

Rescuers carry a search operation following a powerful earthquake, in Amizmiz, in Morocco, September 9, 2023. Photographer Abdelhak Balhaki By Reuters A powerful earthquake in Morocco has killed more than 1,000 people and injured hundreds more, the country’s deadliest in more than six decades, toppling houses in remote mountain villages where rescuers dug through rubble

By The East African East African economies are going through a fresh spike in fuel prices after Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed to extend by three months the removal of 1.3 million barrels of crude per day from the global market in a move that has seen crude price jump by 18 percent to $90

Ahmed Diriye/U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice Program By Capital FM Kenya The United States government has issued a bounty of up to 10 million dollars for information on the whereabouts of Ahmed Diriye, also known as Ahmed Umar and Abu Ubaidah, a high-ranking member of the Somalia-based Al-Qaeda linked militant group Al-Shabab. The

The Apple Inc. logo. Reuters/Mike Segar/File Photo By Reuters Researchers at digital watchdog group Citizen Lab said on Thursday they found spyware they linked to Israeli firm NSO that exploited a newly discovered flaw in Apple (AAPL.O) devices. While inspecting the Apple device of an employee of a Washington-based civil society group last week, Citizen

By Anadolu Agency The US and its allies are pressuring South Asian countries in the name of a so-called Indo-Pacific Strategy to promote their own interests in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday. Lavrov was speaking at a joint press briefing with his Bangladeshi counterpart AK Abdul Momen in the capital Dhaka.

Multiple casualties are feared after Al-Shabab terrorists launched an attack targeting a Somali national army base in the country’s south-central province of the Middle Shabelle region on Thursday, according to Anadolu Agency reported. The attack took place in the newly liberated small town of Nur Dugle where Somali government forces and its allied clan militias