Photo/Somali Times Khadija and Mahad Awad forcibly occupying property owned by General Mohamed Abshir Muse. The Minister of Relief, Disaster Management and the deputy speaker of parliament have been accused of forcibly occupying a house owned by General Mohamed Abshir Muse. According to family members of Mohamed Abshir, Khadija Mohamed Dirie was accused of renting

Quake also felt in Turkish metropolis of Istanbul A magnitude 6.6 earthquake jolted Turkey’s Aegean region on Friday, according to the nation’s disaster agency. The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said the quake occurred at 2.51 p.m. local time (1151GMT) at a depth of 16.54 kilometers (around 10 miles). Bugra Gokce, the secretary-general of

A senior official with Tigray People’s Liberation Front, the regional governing party, says Abiy has no mandate to decide appointments, troops’ movement. A brigadier general has been blocked from taking up a posting in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, an official said on Friday, escalating a dispute between the region and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government

Foreign trade deficit amounts to $4.8B last month, says statistical authority Turkish exports increased 4.8% on an annual basis in September, according to the nation’s statistical authority on Friday. The figure hit $16 billion, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) said in a statement on Friday. Turkey’s imports amounted to $20.8 billion last month, a year-on-year

Photo: Credit Associated Press Tanzania President John Magufuli. Reports in Tanzania claim that Zanzibar’s main opposition leader in the just concluded elections has been arrested by police. ACT Wazelendo Party leader Zanzibar’s Presidential candidate Seif Sharif Hamad was arrested on Thursday afternoon. Senior party officials are also in custody. “Mwenyekiti wa Chama cha ACT Wazalendo

USS Coronado launches a Harpoon Block 1C missile for the first time during exercise Rim of the Pacific. Credit: Flickr/U.S. Pacific Fleet By Steven Stashwick Truck-mounted Harpoon missiles and other recent sales are aimed at repelling a potential invasion by China. The U.S. State Department has given the greenlight for Taiwan to buy hundreds of

Security forces guard the area after a reported knife attack at Notre Dame church in Nice, France, October 29, 2020. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard A knife-wielding attacker shouting “Allahu Akbar” beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist attack at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, police and officials

The United States strongly backed efforts to disrupt the illegal financing methods used by Somalia’s al-Shabab extremist group, which according to U.N. experts raised more than the $21 million it spent last year on fighters, weapons and intelligence. U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft told the Security Council on Wednesday the Trump administration is committed to partnering

Photo/Somali Times Somalia’s 2020/2021 election campaign is in full swing in Somalia’s neighboring countries, and some governments are reportedly spending money to produce like-minded politicians to pursue their own interests tomorrow. Politicians are campaigning in Qatar, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Kenya, and many politicians have traveled several times, some of whom have sent

The European Union Commission warned that Turkish membership of the bloc is further away than ever in light of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s calls for a boycott of French goods after the country’s president said he supports the publication of insulting cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), France24 reported. “Calls for a boycott