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

Mohammed bin Salman during a meeting with Saudi air forces officers to discuss plans and developments of the military operations against Yemen in 2015 (AFP) By Madawi al-Rasheed Six years on, the Saudi crown prince, who failed to score a quick victory, is left alone to beg the Houthis to accept his peace proposal This

Photo/Somali Times/Minister of Information Osman Abukar Dubbe. Somalia’s Minister of Information Osman Abukar Dubbe has warned ambassadors working in Somalia against violating Somalia’s sovereignty and statehood. The minister pointed out that the statements issued by some foreign ambassadors are outside the scope of diplomatic norms, and confirmed that such practices are not acceptable to the

Photo/Somali Times Abdirashid Hassan Nur Janan, who reached an agreement with the Federal Government of Somalia, was warmly welcomed in Beled-Hawo. Abdirashid Janan arrived in Beled-Hawo accompanied by a large convoy of troops loyal to him. The Deputy Minister of Information of the Federal Government of Somalia Abdirahman Al-Adalada who was among the officials who

PARIS (AP) — France’s high-profile culture minister has been hospitalized for COVID-19, the latest senior official to become ill as the nation faces a third surge of coronavirus infections, this one propelled by a highly contagious variant first found in Britain. Roselyne Bachelot, 74, announced last weekend that she tested positive and her hospitalization was