File Photo Somali Times/Hargeisa SNM leaders massacring women and children Qatar, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and the United States have expressed concern over fighting in the northern Somalia region of Las Anod. ”They have destroyed the electricity system of the hospital, the oxygen system, the blood bank, the office of the human resources

File Photo/Somali Times The United States has announced a bounty of 5 million dollars for Al-Shabab spokesman Ali Mohamed Rage Ali Dhere. The Justice Award program of the US State Department has announced that Al-Shabab spokesman Ali Dhere was involved in planning terrorist attacks in Somalia and Kenya. Read: Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh history of

The Leader of Opposition in Parliament Mathias Mpuuga (L) and Speaker Anita Among during the joint ecumenical thanksgiving service at Parliament on February 28, 2023. By Daily Monitor Uganda has strict anti-gay legislation but there have been no prosecutions for consensual same-sex acts in the country in recent years. In 2014, the Constitution Court struck

Moscow has for decades been a major supplier of arms to Algeria, which has one of Africa’s most powerful armies. File/AFP By AFP The head of Algeria’s army has hosted Russia’s top security official to discuss boosting their military ties, the defence ministry in Algiers has said. General Said Chengriha said the Monday visit of

By Anadolu Agency The Rwandan government said Monday that US statements on the conflict in eastern Congo accusing Rwanda of backing the M23 rebel group could undermine regional peace processes. African leaders meeting in Ethiopia on Feb. 17 gave Congolese rebels until March 30 to withdraw from all occupied areas in the eastern Democratic Republic

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hold a news conference at Windsor Guildhall, Britain, February 27, 2023. Photographer Dan Kitwood/Reuters By Reuters British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has struck a new deal on post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland, risking a clash with members of his Conservative Party

File- European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, left, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meet during the COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Nov. 7, 2022. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Union leader Ursula von der Leyen are due to meet, the two sides said Sunday Feb. 26, 2023, with expectations

Police spokesperson Wesley Twigg said the circumstances surrounding a shooting where a 26-year-old man was shot and fatally wounded were under investigation. File picture: Bongani Mbatha: African News Agency /ANA By IOL As extortionists continue to terrorise the Gugulethu area, a 26-year-old Somali shopkeeper was shot and killed on Friday at NY 132. This was

Russian President Vladimir Putin/Reuters By Anadolu Agency Russia is standing against a new world order shaped only in the interests of the US, according to President Vladimir Putin. “What are we against? Against the fact that the new world that is taking shape is built only in the interests of one country, in this case

A day after the elections, officials tally votes at a vote collation centre that had been stormed by unknown assailants earlier in the day in Alimosho, Lagos, Nigeria on February 26, 2023. Photographer James Oatway By Reuters Nigeria’s electoral commission began announcing state-by-state results from national elections on Sunday, amid complaints of irregularities, though it