Photo/Somali Times Somali Foreign Affairs Minister Mohamed Abdirizak Mohamud said the Somali government will not accept mediation in the maritime border dispute between Somalia and Kenya. The foreign minister said the African Union had issued a pending letter on the role of the AU in resolving the maritime dispute between the two countries. The minister

A photograph appeared on the Internet. Somalia’s state minister for finance, Mohamoud Hayir Ibrahim and his cousin Isse Haji Farah are illegally fishing in Somalia. Mr Mohamoud Hayir Ibrahim facilitates the operations of a fishing company called North East Fishing Company, founded by his two cousins in Puntland, by issuing clearance certificates against the law,

File – In this Friday, May 14, 2021 file photo the logo of German car manufacturer BMW is fixed at the headquarters in Munich, Germany. German automaker BMW reports second-quarter earnings on Tuesday Aug. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, file) Frankfurt,, Germany (AP) — BMW reported 4.8 billion euros ($5.7 billion) in net profit in

Turkish President Erdogan underlines importance of peace, stability in Tunisia for sake of entire region Speaking to his Tunisian counterpart Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed the importance of peace and stability in the country, said Turkish diplomatic sources. Erdogan told Kais Saied that stability, peace, and serenity in Tunisia are important and benefit

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures as he speaks during the closing ceremony on the second day of the Global Education Summit in London, Britain July 29, 2021. Tolga Akmen/Pool via REUTERS/Files By DANICA KIRKA and AMIR VAHDAT LONDON (AP) — Britain and Iran issued warnings to each other’s diplomats Monday as tensions escalated over

Teodoro (aka Teodorin) Nguema Obiang Mongue, the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president. Credit: Daily Nation File Photo. By Kemo Cham Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, Equatorial Guinea’s vice-president and son of the head of state, is no stranger to controversy. Some would say he courts and revels in it. He is a man of means, and

A pedestrian walk past the National Treasury building in Nairobi By OTIATO GUGUYU Kenya has withdrawn its request for China to extend debt repayment holiday to December in the wake of opposition from Chinese lenders that recently froze disbursements to local projects. The Treasury says that Kenya has decided not to seek an extension of

President Joe Biden speaks about COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal workers in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) By Scott McCann It’s time to bring this to an end. On Tuesday, the US military conducted an airstrike against the militant group al-Shabab in the divided

Parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi, head of the moderate Islamist Ennahda, arrives at the party’s headquarters in Tunis, Tunisia, July 29, 2021. REUTERS/Ammar Awad TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s parliament speaker Rached Ghannouchi, head of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party that has had an influential national role for a decade, left the hospital hours after he was

File Photo/Somali Times Somali police chief Abdi Hassan Mohamed Hijar denied that the Somali Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have not given or denied criminal records of politicians running for parliament. The police chief said false information had been spread on social media, and made it clear that no one had so far complained that the