Photo/Somali Times The Benadir regional commissioner for Social Affairs Basmo Amir has apologized for a statement she made yesterday about the Benadir region team’s victory in a football tournament in Mogadishu. Basmo said she was overwhelmed by the excitement of her region’s victory, which led to her losing to the Galmudug players in a penalty

People watch the first truck, from Estonia, entering the Eurotunnel terminal Friday, Jan.1, 2021 in Coquelles, northern France. Eleven months after Britain’s formal departure from the EU, Brexit becomes a fact of daily life on Friday, once a transition period ends and the U.K. fully leaves the world’s most powerful trading bloc. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly,

National Assembly Health Committee vice chairman and Cherangany MP Joshua Kutuny. He has said Parliament will summon Ministry of Health officials over the controversial expiry of a consignment of vaccines in a warehouse at the JKIA. By Angela Oketch Among those to be questioned are officials who served at the ministry at the time of

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed responds to questions from members of parliament at the prime minister’s office in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. The fugitive leader of Ethiopia’s defiant Tigray region on Monday called on Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to withdraw troops from the region as he asserted that fighting continues

FILE – In this March 20, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. The Trump administration is signing off on selling more than $1.3 billion in artillery to Saudi Arabia. The State Department says the administration told

File image: Over the last month there has been a large spike in Covid-19 cases in Indonesia (AP) By Mayank Aggarwal A nurse in Indonesia has been suspended for removing his personal protective equipment to have sex with a Covid-19 patient in the hospital. The incident came to light after a Twitter account (@bottialter) uploaded

NSE trading floor. Government bonds and Treasury bills offered Kenyan investors the best returns this year after listed shares and property took a beating in the wake of Covid-19 economic fallout. Those who opted to keep their money in bank accounts also earned lower returns as lenders cut their deposit and savings rates to lows

French journalist weighs on France’s presence in Mali, no terrorist threat against France has ever come from Africa’s Sahel French daily L’Opinion in its Tuesday editorial launched a diatribe against the French military presence in Mali, a day after the death of three French soldiers who belonged to the Barkhane force. “Quentin, Dorian and Tanerri

Photo/Somali Times The federal government of Somalia today deployed a large number of troops at the Garowe International Airport, who have been trained by the central government of Puntland. The troops are said to be the first unit of the Puntland Police Force, a traffic police unit that has undergone five months of training in

People run following an explosion at the airport in Aden, Yemen, shortly after a plane carrying the newly formed Cabinet landed on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. No one on board the government plane was hurt but initial reports said several people at the airport were killed. (AP Photo) A large explosion struck the airport in