Royal Saudi Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons. Calls have been made for the UK to follow the US in halting Yemen-related arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Photograph: Alamy By Dan Sabbagh Britain faced fresh calls to end unrestricted arms sales to Saudi Arabia after the US published a CIA assessment which concluded that Crown Prince Mohammed

Credit Associated Press Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi. WASHINGTON (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince likely approved the killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, according to a newly declassified U.S. intelligence report released Friday. The finding could escalate pressure on the Biden

A doctor tends to a patient suffering from COVID-19 in a ward for coronavirus patients at the Martini hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh) By HASSAN BARISE A resurgence of COVID-19 cases is hitting Somalia hard, straining one of the world’s most fragile health systems, while officials await test

Credit: Official web site of the African Union Mission In Somalia. The United Nations Security Council voted Thursday to renew the mandate of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), a peacekeeping force first deployed in the country in 2007. According to a statement issued by the UK at the United Nations, all UN members

Member of the Organization ‘Justice for Jamal Khashoggi’ holding a picture of Khashoggi as he and other members hold news conference on the disappearance of Saudi journalist in front of the Washington Post headquarters in Washington D.C. with the attendance of Congressman Gerry Connolly and figures from CAIR and Pen America spoke, in Washington D.C.,

Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum attends the Global Women’s Forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 16 February 2020. (REUTERS/Christopher Pike/File Photo) Dubai’s Princess Latifa has urged British police to reopen its case into the kidnapping of her sister Shamsa by her father, Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, according to

File Photo/Somali Times The Somali government on Tuesday banned protests in Mogadishu due to rising Covid-19 cases and security threats in Somalia. “Any protests in Mogadishu, whether anti-government or pro-government, are illegal and will not be allowed,” said Internal Security Minister Hassan Hundubey Jima’le in a news conference in Mogadishu. The announcement comes after the

EAC countries including Kenya and Tanzania continue to lock out Uganda’s sugar out of their markets without proper explanation. By Dorothy Nakaweesi Uganda will this week seek to find solutions to the continued blockade of its exports, failure of which, it will seek intervention of the East African Court of Justice. Government, according to Ministry

Industrialist Mr Chris Kirubi (left), investor Mr Baloobahi Patel (centre) and Equity chief executive James Mwangi. Sixteen Kenyans dropped out of the ultra-rich list in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted businesses and hammered most asset classes across Africa. The latest instalment of the Knight Frank Wealth Report places the number of Kenyans with a

FILE – In this Jan. 17, 2019 file photo, Emma Coronel Aispuro, center, leaves a Brooklyn federal court in New York after attending the trial of her husband Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Despite her status as the wife of the world’s most notorious drug boss, Coronel Aispuro lived mostly in obscurity — until her husband