Photo/Somali Times A delegation from the federal government of Somalia has today reached the Dolow district in Gedo region. The delegation comprising of ministers and military officials was warmly welcomed in the Dolow district of the region. Ministers include the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Information and members of the

By Moses Odhiambo Kikuyu-Kalenjin dominance has persisted since Independence. PSC audit also reveals state agencies not compliant with integrity laws. Kikuyus and Kalenjins are grossly overrepresented in the civil service, the Public Service Commission has revealed in the latest jobs audit. Mijikenda, Turkana, Somalis and Luhya were among ethnic groups found to be underrepresented going

FILE – In this Aug. 5, 2019 photo released by the U.S. Air Force, an F-35 fighter jet pilot and crew prepare for a mission at Al-Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates. The Biden administration has put a temporary hold on several major foreign arms sales initiated by former President Donald Trump. Officials

Photo/Somali Times The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo received at the State House the Minister of Defense of the United Kingdom Ben Wallace accompanied by the British Ambassador to Somalia Ben Fender. President Farmajo shared with the Minister the successful plans of the Federal Government of Somalia in the process

FILE – In this Jan. 25, 2020, file photo a Boeing 777X airplane takes off on its first flight with the Olympic Mountains in the background at Paine Field in Everett, Wash. Boeing is reporting another huge loss, this one because of a setback to its 777X widebody jetliner. Boeing said Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021,

Photo/Somali Times The Somali government has reportedly deployed troops from the Jubaland administration in the Dolow district in the Gedo region late last night following heavy fighting in the town of Beled-Hawo between Jubaland and federal government forces on Monday. Residents in Dolow told Somali Times that the trucks transported troops captured in Beled-Hawo to

Photo/Somali Times Somali Information Minister Osman Abukar Dubbe told a news conference in Mogadishu that a Djibouti mission to the Somali-Kenyan border had joined the Kenyan government. The commission, announced at December 20th in IGAD summit in Djibouti, has been sent to the border to investigate Somalia’s complaints that Kenya is organizing a rebellion on

Horn of Africa nation committed to peaceful resolution of border differences with Sudan, says Foreign Ministry Ethiopia on Tuesday reiterated its call for Sudan to pull back from disputed territories its troops have been in since late last year. In late December, Sudanese soldiers reportedly moved up to 40 kilometers (25 miles) into Ethiopian-held territories,

Photo/Somali Times Somalia’s Federal Government has officially lifted the ban on the importation of khat (miraa) from Kenya. However, it has imposed certain conditions for the commodity to be admitted on its territory. Somalia’s Finance Minister, Dr Abdirahman Dualeh Beileh, told a press conference on Monday evening that traders will now be allowed to import

Credit Associated Press John MacDougall. On the tenth anniversary of the Egyptian uprising, the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) has called on the UK government to end arms sales and support for the Egyptian regime. In the statement, the group said it held the Egyptian military regime responsible for massacring protesters and torturing dissidents,