Photo/Somali Times The governor of Puntland State of Somalia Said Abdullahi Deni today met with the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Somalia, Amb. James Swan. The meeting was a Zoom video call and the two sides discussed the situation in the country and the 2021 elections. The two officials focused on resolving

Photo/Somali Times The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Somali Government, Mohamed Abdirasak Mohamoud, held a private meeting with Volkan Bozkir, the current President of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. During the meeting, which took place in the United States, the two leaders discussed the situation in Somalia, which is currently

A session of the United Nations Security Council (Photo: VNA) New York (VNA) – Vietnam supports the democratic process in Somalia, particularly the upcoming elections, Minister Counsellor Nguyen Phuong Tra, Deputy Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations, has said. At the informal dialogue with between the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and Somalian

File Photo/Somali Times Internal and external forces have ominously converged in recent weeks, threatening the tentative state of stability in Somalia. Domestically, President Mohammed Farmaajo’s efforts to manoeuvre his path to re-election in 2021 are sparking considerable internal strife, while internationally, a hurricane of potentially harmful geopolitical winds is circling around Somalia. In particular, events

Photo/Somali Times The EU on Wednesday launched a fisheries and livestock project to expand the Somali economy and improve the lives of farmers. Speaking during the launch ceremony in the capital Mogadishu, Nicolas Berlanga Martínez, the EU ambassador to Somalia, said the 14.7 million euro ($17.7 million) project is aimed at revitalizing the Somali economy,

Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Jill Biden holds the Bible during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021.(Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP) By JONATHAN LEMIRE, ZEKE MILLER and ALEXANDRA JAFFE WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe

US President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Treasury Department said her policies would focus on getting everyday Americans to revive the pandemic-hit American economy. “The focus right now is on providing relief and helping families keep a roof over their heads and food on the table and not raising taxes,” Janet Yellen said Tuesday

A preacher is disinfected by a health worker, during a burial of a person who died from COVID-19, in Harare, Friday, Jan, 15, 2021. Zimbabwe, battling a spike in new COVID-19 cases, has banned families from transporting their dead relatives between cities, as part of new measures to stop traditional funeral rites that are believed

Photo/Somali Times Puntland: Since Puntland was established in 1998, which only have one community president Mohamoud Salebaan until now. Political Parties are seriously concerned about the reliability of the judiciary by the Constitution and the lack of treatment, as Puntland is preparing to move to a multi-party democratic system. Speaking at a meeting organized by

Egyptian stall in Cairo, Egypt on 4 February 2014 [Laura Cuttier/Flickr] Egypt’s non-oil trade balance deficit reached $38.3 billion in 2020, the Egyptian trade and industry ministry announced yesterday. In an official statement, the ministry said that the country’s non-oil exports amounted to $25.29 billion, compared to $46.22 billion in 2019, marking a 17 per