By Anadolu Agency Finland’s Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto appointed Somali-born MP Suldaan Said Ahmed as his Special Representative on Peace Mediation in the Horn of Africa. The Foreign Ministry said Ahmed, who is the only Somali-origin member in the parliament, will focus on supporting peace processes in one of the volatile regions in Africa. Finland

File – Elon Musk will participate in a meeting with employees of Twitter on Thursday, June 16, 2022, as the billionaire and social media platform continue to try to push forward on their agreed-to $44 billion acquisition. Twitter confirmed on Tuesday that the meeting will take place, but did not provide any other details about

Times Tower, the headquarters of the KRA, in Nairobi By Business Daily Africa Aggressive tax collection and recovery measures by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) raised revenue collection by a fifth in the year to June 2022, the highest ever annual growth margin recorded by the agency. The tax agency said on Thursday that it

In this image from a video, Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes a campaign speech in Nara, western Japan shortly before he was shot Friday, July 8, 2022. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a divisive arch-conservative and one of his nation’s most powerful and influential figures, has died after being shot during a

In this image from a video, Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes a campaign speech in Nara, western Japan shortly before he was shot Friday, July 8, 2022. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a divisive arch-conservative and one of his nation’s most powerful and influential figures, has died after being shot during a

Royal Navy vessel HMS Montrose at sea during Baltic Operations in this photo taken June 15, 2014. Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Adam C. Stapleton/U.S. Navy/Handout via Reuters By Reuters Britain’s Royal Navy said on Thursday one of its warships had seized Iranian weapons, including surface-to-air-missiles and engines for cruise missiles, from smugglers in international

Credit to Photo Facebook/Kenya’s Minister of Agriculture Peter Munya Kenya’s Minister of Agriculture Peter Munya said the agreement to resume trade between Somalia and Kenya had been delayed. This comes after Somali corrupt President Hassan Mohamoud failed to attend the IGAD Extraordinary Summit in Nairobi. Read: Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh history of corruption 2012-2017 Mr

Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, falls on the ground in Nara, western Japan Friday, July 8, 2022. Abe was in heart failure after apparently being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, NHK public television said Friday. (Kyodo News via AP) By The Associated Press Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Photo/Somali Times Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud and a delegation led by him who were in Turkey at the official invitation returned to the country this afternoon. Read: Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh history of corruption 2012-2017 President Hassan congratulated the people of Somalia on the blessed occasion of Eid al-Adha, reminding them of the plight

By Anadolu Agency Sweden’s Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has criticized a group of left-wing parliamentarians for posing with rags symbolizing the PKK terror group. “[This] is extremely inappropriate,” Andersson told the country’s TT news agency, recalling that PKK is a designated terror organization not just in Sweden but in the EU. Despite the commitments in