In this photo released by the 10th Regional Japan Coast Guard Headquarters, a Filipino crewmember of a Panamanian cargo ship is rescued by Japanese Coast Guard members in the waters off the Amami Oshima, Japan Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. Japanese rescuers have safely plucked the crewmember from the sea while searching for the cargo ship

Photo/Somali Times A meeting between President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo and the Presidents of Jubaland and Puntland, Ahmed Mohamed Islam and Said Abdullahi Deni, was scheduled for Wednesday night, but was canceled due to undisclosed reasons. 1. The Presidents of Puntland and Jubaland are in Mogadishu for three nights, holding separate meetings with Somali political stakeholders,

Photo/Somali Times What you need to know: For Somalia, the old story of miraa ban returned last week after a delegation of farmers’ representatives returned empty-handed. But the miraa story has always been political. Nairobi has had a month-long standoff with Tanzania. This has led some analysts to think the region, despite having integration blocs,

FILE – In this Aug. 3, 2020, file photo dark clouds and heavy rain sweep over the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The federal budget deficit is projected to hit a record $3.3 trillion as huge government expenditures to fight the coronavirus and to prop up the economy have added more than $2 trillion to the

Photo/Somali Times What you need to know: The duo have been rebelling against a new poll agreement reached last month. Mogadishu. Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo is on Thursday expected to hold crucial talks with the leaders of Jubaland and Puntland states to chart a common path for the upcoming elections. Ahmed Mohamed Islam of

Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i has listed nine Kenyan individuals suspected of supporting terrorist activities in the country. In a statement on Tuesday, the CS Ordered that the bank accounts and property of the individuals be frozen with immediate effect. “The only way to deny terrorists the means to threaten our way of life is

Photo/Somali Times The Acting Deputy Representative of the United States to the United Nations, Ambassador Cherith Norman Chalet, said her country had spent nearly $3.5 billion to restore Somalia’s security over the past two decades, without achieving any results. Norman added that the US continues to use airstrikes to target the leaders of Al-Shabaab movement,

Photo: Credit Wikipedia An El Al Israel Airlines Kuwait has refused to allow an Israeli plane heading to the UAE to fly through its skies, stressing that no Israeli planes will ever use its airspace, Quds Press reported yesterday. According to the news site, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Qabas reported government sources saying: “Israeli planes

Ethiopian-Americans against US cutting $130M aid to Ethiopia to enforce Egypt friendly agreement on sharing Nile waters. The US has now formally stepped in, to support Egypt and punish Ethiopia over the river water sharing dispute between the two African countries. Last week, the Trump administration announced blocking a $130 million aid that had been

In this Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018 file photo, a man walks on a mountain of plastic bottles as he carries a sack of them to be sold for recycling after weighing them at the dump in the Dandora slum of Nairobi, Kenya. The oil industry in 2020 has asked the United States to pressure Kenya