Former minister Maria Helena Taipo By AFP Mozambique on Thursday sentenced a former minister to 16 years imprisonment for corruption, a striking sentence for the country that is still dealing with the fallout of a separate embezzlement scandal. Maria Helena Taipo, 60, a member of the ruling FRELIMO party who led the Labour ministry from

File Photo/Somali Times President Hassan Sheikh spoke about the insecurity in Mogadishu since he took office 15 May 2022. The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, for the first time spoke strongly about security in the capital Mogadishu, after the increase in robbery, assasination and rape since he appoint Somalia spy

By Anadolu Agency US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he spoke with his Russian counterpart on Friday for the first time in nearly six months to press Moscow to accept a US proposal for the release of two Americans detained in Russia. Blinken declined to outline Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s response to the “significant

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro Reuters/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria By Reuters London’s High Court has rejected President Nicolas Maduro’s latest efforts to gain control of more than $1 billion of Venezuela’s gold reserves stored in the Bank of England’s underground vaults in London. The court ruled on Friday that previous decisions by the Maduro-backed Venezuelan Supreme Court,

A photograph appear on the Internet: Al-Shabab terrorist leader Fu’ad Shongole The Ethiopian government has announced that three senior leaders of Al-Shabab terrorist group have been killed in the war in Western Somalia. Somali people are celebrating the death of the three terrorists who committed atrocities, killing thousands of innocent civilians and raping many young

IHS Markit By Ida Hockerfelt Amid higher global oil prices and a sharpening focus on new oil and gas supply sources to offset dependence on Russia, East African frontier Somalia has a renewed opportunity to attract foreign investors to its upstream hydrocarbon sector. However, in light of limited exploration success to date, the acute governance,

A Photograph appear on the Internet Somalia spy chief Mahad Salad is a member of Al-Shabab terrorist group and Somalia president Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, according to sources Somali officials told Somali Times Egypt, UAE and Kenya government they are behind all this supporting Al-Shabab terrorist group attacking neighbouring Ethiopia. The battle came after Al-Shabab terrorists

By Anadolu Agency Defense ministry spokesman says Ukrainian army has suffered ‘significant’ losses The Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday that since the beginning of its “military operation” against Ukraine, it has destroyed 359 air defense missile systems belonging to its neighbor. Spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed that the Ukrainian army has suffered “significant” losses and an

By The Associated Press President Xi JInping warned against meddling in China’s dealings with Taiwan during a phone call with his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, that gave no indication of progress on trade, technology or other irritants, including Beijing’s opposition to a top American lawmaker’s possible visit to the island democracy, which the mainland claims

By Reuters Licensing rights for 30 oil and gas blocks in the Democratic Republic of Congo went up for auction on Thursday, opening parts of the world’s second-biggest rainforest to drilling that could release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, jeopardising climate goals to tame global warming. President Felix Tshisekedi presided over the launch