Gargash served as minister of state for foreign affairs since 2008 The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced a cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday, with Anwar Gargash being removed from his post as a minister of state for foreign affairs. Gargash was appointed an adviser to the UAE president and Sheikh Shakhbout bin Nahyan was appointed as

Political prisoner and journalist Solafa Magdy [maitelsadany/Twitter] Violations are continuing against women in Al-Qanater prison, reports rights organisation We Record, since Amr Hisham took charge as chief of investigations at the prison on 4 February. Earlier this month Hisham forcibly moved detainees Maha, Aya, Riman, Dawlat, and Lua’ya by force from the wing housing political

File Photo/Somali Times The outgoing President of the Federal Republic of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo convened a meeting on Election Heads of State and the Benadir region. ”The conference, which will open on February 15 in Garowe, Somalia, is a culmination of the implementation of the agreement reached by the National Consultative Council in Mogadishu

The Treasury offered Kenya Airways a further Sh10 billion in a secret bailout despite having publicly stated it would reject the national carrier’s request for funds to avoid collapse amid the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. A supplementary budget tabled in Parliament on Tuesday revealed Kenya Airways received Sh8 billion directly from the Treasury and

File Photo/Somali Times By EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council called on Somalia’s federal government and regional states Tuesday to urgently resume talks and agree on arrangements to hold elections as soon as possible. A September agreement allows for the president and others to stay in office after Monday’s election

Photo/Somali Times The president of Somalia’s federal government Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has again convened a meeting of Benadir and regional leaders in Garowe. The meeting is said to be aimed at implementing the agreement reached by the National Consultative Council in Mogadishu on 17 September 2020. The meeting, called by the president, comes days after

Photo/Somali Times Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble plans to present a surprise plan to parliament tomorrow with a new type of election and a one year extension for President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo according to sources inside Villa Somalia which told Somali Times. Tomorrow’s parliamentary agenda include an extension, but lawmakers who spoke to Somali

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday elected American jurist Joan E Donoghue as the new president of the UN judicial organ, bringing to an end the term of Somalia’s Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, who has been at the helm since 2018. Donoghue, a member of the ICJ since 2010, will be deputised by Russia’s

The Somali government has for the first time responded to accusations from the opposition and the end of the presidential term and who should legally replace the outgoing government institutions. Somali government spokesman Mohamed Ibrahim Maalimu said the statements of opposition politicians were never legitimate. Maalimu said the Somali parliament already passed a resolution stating

The future of the Democratic Governance Facility – a donor funded aid pool – rests on a brief that Finance Minister Matia Kasaija sent President Yoweri Museveni, after the latter questioned how the fund was authorised to be operated exclusively by a foreign mission in Uganda. In a January 2 letter to the Finance minister,