Credit: Twitter Chief of the Ethiopian army Birhanu Jula. Ethiopian army chief announces pledge to fight in Tigray. The commander-in-chief of the Ethiopian army, Birhanu Jula, told the Ethiopian News Agency that he was awaiting orders from his superiors to re-engage fighting in the northern Tigray region. The commander said that the government forces are

Photo/Somali Times The Gedo region in Somalia confirmed that a plane carrying passengers from Nairobi crashed this morning at El Wak airport in Gedo region. The 5Y-GRS was en route to Elwak in Mandera County, according to local sources told Somali Times. The plane was carrying about 45 people from the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, when

This Aug. 15, 2019, file photo shows the Toyota logo on a dealership in Manchester, N.H. In a deal announced Wednesday, July 21, 2021, Japan’s top automaker Toyota is adding makers specializing in tiny “kei” cars, Daihatsu and Suzuki, to a partnership in commercial vehicles set up with Hino and Isuzu earlier this year. (AP

Photo/Somali Times The outgoing president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo today celebrated Eid al-Adha with units of the Somali National Army and encouraged them to dedicate themselves to defending their country and protecting the dignity of their people. Mohamed Farmajo said the heroes of the Armed Forces who stood up for the liberation of the country and

Dr Warren Naamara of the State House Health Monitoring Unit displays vials of the fake Covid-19 vaccines that were administered to more than 800 people in Kampala last month. By Benson Tumusiime Authorities at State House have released the results that were obtained from the samples taken from the alleged fake Covid-19 vaccine. More than

Libya’s peace process requires large-scale disarmament and demobilization, says internal paper from EU foreign service The European Union is set to send a military mission to Libya to bolster the bloc’s influence as a foreign superpower, according to a leaked paper. Libya’s peace process requires large-scale disarmament, demobilization and the reintegration of combatants as well

File Photo/Somali Times Army intensifies operations against terror group after election agreement The Somali military on Monday announced killing 35 members of the al-Shabaab terror group in the central state of Galmudug. The operations took place in the vicinity of Qayacad, approximately 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the recently liberated town of Ba’adweyne in the

Ivory Coast’s Prime Minister Patrick Achi at the presidential palace in Abidjan, Ivory Coast April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Luc Gnago/File Photo A World Bank programme to help medical clinics in Ivory Coast procure equipment from General Electric (GE.N) and Philips (PHG.AS) could spur the cocoa-producing country’s development into a regional medical hub, Prime Minister Patrick Achi

File – In this July 3, 2020, file photo, Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, talks to members of the media in Istanbul. Amnesty International reported that its forensic researchers had determined that NSO Group’s flagship Pegasus spyware was successfully installed on the phone of Cengiz, just four days after Khashoggi

People, some wearing protective face masks, walk over Westminster Bridge, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in London, Britain, July 4, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls/File Photo By William James LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ‘freedom day’ ending over a year of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in England was marred on Monday by surging