By Anadolu Agency Overcoming holdouts from his own ranks, Republican leader Kevin McCarthy was elected as speaker of the US House of Representatives on a historic 15th round of voting early Saturday, in what became the longest contest in 164 years. He fell one vote short on the 14th ballot, but in the 15th and

The commander of the Hargeisa military forces in the Sool region, Brigadier General Mahad Ambashe has threatened to slaughter his own people of Las Anod and sent a warning to people who he said want to cause chaos in the city of Las Anod, noting that the army will not leave. He said that Las

Marine Corps Times By Zamone Perez U.S. Africa Command conducted more than a dozen airstrikes in Somalia in 2022 in its counterterrorism operations against al-Shabab and aiding the Somali government, an increase of more than 30% over the previous year. Some in Congress, however, have scrutinized AFRICOM operations, claiming inaccurate counts of civilian casualties and

Officials from the Hargeisa military and police who recently left the city of Las Anod have started organizing a war on the outskirts of that city to retake the city. The Hargeisa forces left the city on Wednesday night, and an official who spoke to them said that the reason is to throw the people

By The Associated Press Gianluca Vialli, the former Italy striker who helped both Sampdoria and Juventus win Serie A and European trophies before becoming a player-manager at Chelsea, has died. He was 58. The Italian soccer federation confirmed Vialli’s death on Friday. Vialli announced in 2018 that he had overcome a year-long battle with pancreatic

By The East African The United States has offered a financial reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest of Maalim Ayman, the mastermind of the January 2020 Al Shabaab attack on the Manda Bay airbase in Kenya. The US Department of State said Washington was looking for anyone who could

File- This Oct. 17, 2019 frame grab from video provided by the Mexican government shows Ovidio Guzman Lopez at the moment of his detention, in Culiacan, Mexico. Mexican security forces were forced to release the son of Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman that day after his gunmen shot up the western city of

An investor looks up at electronic boards displaying stock information at the ADX Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange stock market/Reuters By Reuters Most major Gulf stock markets fell on Thursday, weighed down by concerns over an economic downturn and volatile oil prices, and hawkish U.S. Federal Reserve minutes. Oil prices fell sharply overnight on worries that

Kenya’s president William Ruto. Photographer Monicah Mwangi By Reuters Kenya will not default on its debt and plans to ramp up tax collection in the next two years, President William Ruto said on Wednesday. Ruto’s government, which took over in September, has pledged to curb expensive commercial borrowing in favour of cheaper sources like the

A Photograph appears on the Internet The Federal Government of Somalia has today signed a new agreement with the United Arab Emirates, and this agreement was signed by the Minister of Defense of Somalia, Mr. Abduqadir Mohamed Nur, according to outlet media reported. The corrupt minister who is currently on business in Abu Dubai said