File Photo/Somali Times China supports the Federal Government of Somalia’s position that the Federal Republic of Somalia is an independent country that can never accept foreign interference. The Chinese government has stated that it respects the sovereignty and dignity of the Federal Republic of Somalia, and stands by the principle that Somalia belongs to the

Photo/Somali Times Puntland State Minister of Finance Hassan Shire Abgal said a constitutional provision gives Puntland the right to secede from Somalia, in the absence of a federal Somali government. Speaking at a meeting on the outskirts of Garowe, Puntland Finance Minister Abgaal said Puntland would never accept anything less than a federal government of

The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, set up by Boris Johnson last summer, is expected to report within days. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo By Rajeev Syal Boris Johnson’s race equality advisers are expected to suggest change after study of employment market Companies could be ordered to disclose any pay gap between white employees and

Photo: Credit AFP/ US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton, speaks during a House Committee on Financial Services hearing entitled “Capital Markets and Emergency Lending in the COVID-19 Era. America stocks market regulator has suspended a Canadian firm from trading in the United States for failing to shed light on disclosures indicating it signed

File – In this Monday, Nov. 30, 2020 file photo, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed responds to questions from members of parliament at the prime minister’s office in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s leader said in an address before lawmakers Tuesday, March 23, 2021 that atrocities have occurred in Tigray, the country’s northern region

Former Jubaland security minister Abdirashid Janan, who reached a preliminary agreement with the federal government a day ago, landed at the Mogadishu airport this afternoon. The Wanted man for human rights violations in Gedo region was accompanied by the head of the National Security Agency Fahad Yasin and ministers from the Somali Federal Government who

File Photo/Somali Times The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund granted additional interim assistance to Somalia under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative in an amount of SDR 0.68 million (about US$ 0.97 million) on a lapse of time basis. [1] This interim assistance will cover Somalia’s debt service obligations to the

At least three civilians were killed and five wounded when a barrage of mortars targeted the UN and African Union peacekeeping mission forces (AMISOM) headquarters in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday, a police official said. Abdi Yusuf, a police officer in Mogadishu’s Dharkinley neighborhood, told Anadolu Agency over the phone that several mortar shells

Terminal 1A at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Kenya risks joining the UK’s ‘red list’ of countries from where travellers are subjected to mandatory stay at quarantine hotels due to the government’s reluctance to close the border with Tanzania. Britain’s Telegraph newspaper, quoting a source from the British High Commission in Nairobi, said that Kenya is

CORRECTS NAME OF SHIP TO EVER GIVEN, NOT EVER GREEN – In this photo released by the Suez Canal Authority, a boat navigates in front of a cargo ship, Ever Given, Wednesday, March 24, 2021, after it become wedged across Egypt’s Suez Canal and blocked all traffic in the vital waterway. An Egyptian official warned