Racism has become part of everyday life in Germany, and combating it needs more active engagement from all members of the society, the country’s foreign minister said on Friday. Heiko Maas paid tribute to the victims of far-right terror attack in the western town of Hanau last year in a statement he posted on Twitter,

Photo/Somali Times Somali prime minister condemned clashes on Friday between Somalia’s government forces, Kenyans, UAE and foreign actors opposition supporters and protesters in Mogadishu, underlining that the presence of armed demonstrators was “unacceptable”. ”Somalia has a constitutional right to protest every person peacefully but my government will not tolerate any armed militia protesters and it

Photo/Somali Times Somalia has been in a constitutional crisis for nearly two weeks after an agreed-upon election date elapsed on Feb 8 without voting, leaving president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo in power until election 2021. Somalia has a ongoing, 30-year civil war. Over the past decade, since wresting greater control over the country’s cities from

The Ethiopian prime minister and regional authorities have launched a campaign to support the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the restive Tigray region. “In an online meeting held this [Thursday] afternoon, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the regional presidents, and city administrators launched a solidarity initiative for the Tigray Regional Provisional Administration and the people of the

Photo/Somali Times Armed militiamen attacked military bases in parts of the capital Mogadishu at around 1am tonight. A spokesman for the militia told to the media last night that they were attacking government buildings and capturing parts of Mogadishu. The Armed Forces then went on high alert. Said Minister of Internal Security Hassan Xundubey Jum’ale.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed an ambitious timetable with the aim of making contact with the moon on unmanned missions (Turkish Space Agency TUA) By Ragip Soylu Turkey’s recently announced space programme, which aims to make a soft landing on the moon in 2028, will cost upwards of $1bn and would require building a rocket

Photo/Somali Times What has Hassan Sheikh done for Somalia? Former Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud and Sheikh Sharif are organizing demonstrations in Mogadishu and civil war on February 19, 2021. Former Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud and his whole family stole more than $500 million in public funds. The time he was in office for

A paratrooper assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade boards a U.S. Air Force C-17 at Aviano Air Base, Italy, in preparation for movement to Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Dec. 14, 2020. JOHN YOUNTZ/U.S. ARMY By NANCY MONTGOMERY VICENZA, Italy — Capt. Joe Behrendt was a week into live-fire exercises with the 173rd Airborne Brigade on a

Global debt rose to a new record high of $281.5 trillion in 2020, driven by measures to curb economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Institute of International Finance (IIF), a global trade group of financial institutions. “Coupled with a sharp pandemic-driven decline in government and corporate revenues, total private and public debt

FILE – In this Sept. 30, 2003 file photo, an Air France jumbo jet rolls behind the tail of a KLM Royal Dutch airliner at Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy, north of Paris. Air France-KLM plunged to a 7.1 billion euro ($8.5 billion) loss in 2020 as the global pandemic grounded planes and halted