Photo/Somali Times The National Consultative Forum meeting, which has been working hard to convince the leaders of Puntland and Jubaland, has now come to an end. ”Today, we are making it clear to the Somali people that the leaders of Puntland and Jubaland do not want an election,” said Minister Dubbe. The meeting between President

The latest round of talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has led to no progress because Ethiopia refused a proposal which would have seen the formation of an international mediation quartet, the spokesperson for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Talks on the dam were held over two days and ended yesterday and saw

File Photo/Somali Times A meeting between the heads of the federal government, regional administrations and the Benadir region has recently resumed in Mogadishu. The conference was the introduction of the general meeting of the 2021 elections in the coming days is expected to open, and the current Afisyoni conference discusses the agenda of the national

This Oct. 1, 2020, satellite photo from Planet Labs Inc. shows the Iranian cargo ship MV Saviz in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen. The Iranian cargo ship, believed to be a base for the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard that has been anchored for years in the Red Sea off Yemen, has been attacked,

File – In this Tuesday, March 16, 2021, file photo, Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan speaks during a tour of the Tanga region of Tanzania. Tanzania’s new president appears to be taking a new, scientific approach to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. President Samia Suluhu Hassan said Tuesday April 6, 2021, she will form a technical

Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani. By OTIATO GUGUYU The government will spend Sh36 billion to bail out key parastatal which have sunk into losses as a result of Covid-19 economic fallout. The National Treasury said companies including Kenya Airways, Kenya Power, and several universities need urgent support after their revenues dropped sharply during the pandemic.

Ethiopia’s Somali State President Mustafa Mohammad. Border clashes between Ethiopia’s Afar and Somali regions have killed at least 100 people, a regional official said on Tuesday, the latest outbreak of violence ahead of national elections in June. Around 100 civilians were killed since clashes broke out on Friday and continued through Tuesday, Ahmed Humed, deputy

Photo/Somali Times Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble has visited some of the soldiers wounded in a deadly al-Shabaab attack on military bases in Barire and Awdhegle in the Lower Shabelle region. Prime Minister Roble listened to a report from hospital officials on the condition of the soldiers, and also have conversations the wounded soldiers,

Political deputy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Abbas Araghchi, right, arrives at the Grand Hotel Wien where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran take place in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Foreign ministry officials from the countries still in the accord, the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, are meeting in Vienna

Total of 2,728 people currently under detention, 38 of them sentenced, says Assistance Association for Political Prisoners At least 570 people in Myanmar have been killed since the country’s military seized control on Feb. 1, a Myanmar-based civil rights group said. As of April 5, 570 people were confirmed killed by the military junta, a