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

Photo/Somali Times Professor Ismail Buba said that opposition candidates think the government will collapse by February 8 2021. Professor Ismail Buba of the Somaliland opposition party Wadani, has called on the candidates’ union in Somalia to leave the country in chaos, saying it was impossible for Farmajo to be removed without a replacement. Speaking to

Photo/Somali Times At a joint press conference in Mogadishu, members of the Somali Cabinet and military officials warned the Somali public against rallies due to the devastating effects of Covid-19 on the country. Somali Minister of Information Abukar Osman Dubbe along with Minister of Health and Safety, saying that by preventing the risk the government

Credit Associated Press /Photo Reed Saxon/ US Congressman Rohit Khanna, The UAE Ambassador to Washington, Yousef Al-Otaibi, has clashed on social media with US Congressman Ro Khanna over the war on Yemen and the UAE’s direct involvement in escalating divisions in that country. Khanna told The Intercept that the Emirati ambassador had yelled at him