Photo: Credit Pinterest. The Most Feared US Air-Force Drone in Action: MQ-9 Reaper By Abdullahi Hassan President Donald Trump reportedly has asked the Pentagon for plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Somalia. But any potential drawdown of the 650 to 800 troops on the ground does not necessarily mean an end to U.S. military action

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara casts his vote as his wife Dominique Ouattara, left, looks on at a polling station during presidential elections in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. Tens of thousands of security forces are deployed across Ivory Coast on Saturday as the leading opposition parties boycotted the election, calling President Ouattara’s

Photo: Credit The Independent, The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson. By Andrew Woodcock Scientists believe action now needed to save Christmas Expectations are mounting of a month-long second national lockdown to save Christmas, following the publication of chilling scientific papers predicting that coronavirus deaths this winter could outstrip the 85,000 envisaged in

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