By Anadolu Agency The backlog of people waiting for routine hospital treatment in England has reached 7 million, a new record high, the National Health Service England said Thursday. The figures as of the end of August show a rise of 3% from 6.8 million recorded at the end of this July. The new record

By Anadolu Agency Somali journalists have condemned the arrest of a press union leader who was critical of the government’s new directive restricting reporting on the terrorist group Al-Shabab. Abdalle Ahmed Mumin, the secretary general of the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS), was arrested on Tuesday evening at Aden Adde International Airport in the capital Mogadishu

The Royal Dutch Shell logo is seen at a Shell petrol station in London. Photographer Toby Melville/File Photo By Reuters Oil major Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary is investigating reports that an illegal oil tap ran for nine years on a pipeline it operates, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. An NNPC spokesman said on Sunday the theft

By Business Daily Africa Kenya defaulted on repayment of the Chinese loans provided to build the standard gauge railway (SGR), highlighting the country’s struggles with the mounting public debt. The Chinese banks fined Kenya Sh1.312 billion in the year ended June for loan defaults, according to Treasury documents seen by Business Daily. Kenya tapped over

The Somali National Army (SNA) said Wednesday its forces killed over 50 al-Shabab militants in a foiled terror attack on its base at a village in Hiran region of central Somalia, according to Xinhua News Agency reported. Odowaa Yusuf Rage, Chief of Defense Forces said that the deadly dawn attack at the army base located

By The Associated Press A new liquefied natural gas project off Africa’s western coast may only be 80% complete, but already the prospect of a new energy supplier has drawn visits from the leaders of Poland and Germany. The initial field near Senegal and Mauritania’s coastlines is expected to contain about 15 trillion cubic feet

By Anadolu Agency A recent decision by the G7 to use frozen Russian assets for the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine amounts to “banditry,” the Kremlin said on Wednesday. “This contradicts all thinkable and unthinkable norms of international law. It’s just pure international banditry,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters at a news conference in Moscow. “We

By The Star, Kenya Today, Al-Shabaab remains the most formidable challenge to the Somali government, and its regional and international partners it has established systems to tax businesses and the public, both inside and outside of the territory it controlled. In response to external – and at times internal – pressure, Al-Shabab’s insurgency in Somalia

Italian-Ivorian activist, trade unionist and newly elected member of Parliament Aboubakar Soumahoro By Reuters When Aboubakar Soumahoro was a teenager in his native Ivory Coast, he used to clean shoes and dream of going to Italy, filling a scrapbook with pictures of Italian fashion designs that he cut out of magazines. He made it to

The President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni has assured the President of Somalia who is visiting the country that his government will provide additional tools to solve the security challenges in the country. Dictator Yoweri Museveni said this at the presidential palace in Entebbe, where he received the corrupt president of Somalia and his delegation. Read: