File – In this undated file photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of Defense, a Chinese PLA J-16 fighter jet flies in an undisclosed location. China’s military sent 71 planes, including J16 fighter jets, and seven ships toward Taiwan in a 24-hour display of force directed at the island, Taiwan’s defense ministry said Monday, Dec.

Somalia’s federal government and regional leaders are splitting 70 million dollars in World Bank grant between the head of the Federal Government of Somalia, the regional governments of the country and the governor of Banadir region will be held in Mogadishu. The World Bank said it has approved a 70 million U.S. Dollar International Development

Afghan women chant slogans in protest against the closure of universities to women by the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan, December 22, 2022. Reuters/Stringer/File Photo By Reuters Qatar expressed “extreme concern” over the order by Afghanistan’s Taliban-run administration to stop female employees from working, calling on the administration to review its decision, a foreign ministry statement

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a news conference after a meeting of the State Council on youth policy in Moscow, Russia, December 22, 2022. Sputnik/Sergey Guneev/Pool via Reuters By Reuters Russia is ready to negotiate with all parties involved in the war in Ukraine but Kyiv and its Western backers have refused to engage in

US President Joe Biden speaks with African leaders during the US-Africa Leaders Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Centre in Washington, DC, on December 15, 2022. Photographer Brenden Smialowski /AFP By The East Africa East African Community partner states say the US-Africa Summit last week was occasion to pitch investments in agriculture, health and

Why is the Kenyan Defense Minister in Kismayo when it is known that Kenyan troops are in Jubaland? They do what the Somali government does not want and they are not openly accountable to the Somali people who have many doubts about the maritime dispute between Somalia and Kenya. The court made a decision but

Photographer Somali Times The President of Somalia, Mr. Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, announced today for the first time that Somali spy chief Mahad Salad is involved in the bombings of Mogadishu and planted explosives in Mogadishu hotels. It is the first time President Hassan Sheikh telling the truth, who spoke at the commemoration of the 79th

Photographer Somali Times The prime minister of Somalia, Mr. Hamza Abdi Barre, who held an important meeting today with the Directors-General of the government ministries, ordered them to hold accountable the workers who did corruption. Hamza Abdi Barre said that every director is required to conduct a regular inspection of the officials of the ministry

A tank is seen next to the portrait of former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, on a street in Tunis, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011. Despite an election debacle, Tunisia’s increasingly authoritarian president appears determined to upend the country’s political system, threatening to unravel the fragile democracy and collapse the economy in the North

By Anadolu Agency Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called the EU gas price cap a “voluntarist, non-market measure.” In a statement on Telegram, Medvedev said like in the case of the oil price cap, the decision on the gas price cap “was dictated by zoological hatred to Russia, proceeding from the maniac thesis that ‘Russians