Photo/Somali Times Mogadishu without internet The internet in the capital Mogadishu, Hiran, Mudug, Shabelle, Bay and Bakool regions and Juba regions is completely off the air. This morning, people were hit by a power outage that affected remittance companies, media outlets and government offices on which internet service relied. It is not known why the

An apartment block in Kileleshwa, Nairobi. At one point, Kenya’s city residents may have probably sung along to ‘The Jeffersons’ theme song ‘Movin on up, to the deluxe apartment up in the sky, having finally gotten a piece of the pie.’ But as Covid-19 eats into incomes, a majority of those who were paying high

Photo/Somali Times The Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Hassan Ali Khaire, has returned to Mogadishu today after being ousted by members of parliament. The public. Prime Minister Khaire, who approved the parliament’s decision, said. Knowing what happened in the House of the People today was illegal, and did not go through the

Photo/Somali Times Somalia’s parliament removed the Prime Minister, Hassan Khaire, from his post in a vote of no confidence on Saturday for failing to pave the way towards fully democratic elections, the speaker said. A whopping 170 of parliament’s 178 MPs backed the no-confidence motion, and Khaire’s ouster was immediately endorsed by the president, Mohamed

Photo/Somali Times/ Interim Prime Minister Mahdi Guled A decree issued by the office of President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo named him interim prime minister, stating. President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo had appointed Mahdi Mohamed Guled (Khadar) as the Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia managing the activities of the Cabinet on an interim basis.

Photo/Somali Times The former Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Hassan Ali Khaire, has today arrived in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. According to the Villa Somalia Source told Somali Times, Khaire is accompanied on his trip by members of his ousted government. Ex Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire, who was in Dhusamareb,

Photo/Somali Times The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo has accepted the decision of the House of the People to withdraw its confidence in the Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia. The President said that the unity of the Constitutional Institutions of the Federal Government of Somalia, especially

British police and supermarkets clashed Friday on who should implement new rules that have made face masks compulsory in shops. Anyone who breaks the rules can be fined up to £100 ($128). “It is our members who are expected to police what is a new way of living and I would urge retail outlets to

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Justice Department shows Juan Tang in her China People’s Liberation Army military uniform. The Justice Department on Thursday, July 23, 2020, says the Chinese consulate in San Francisco is harboring a Chinese researcher who lied about her military background. The Justice Department says the scientist, who is listed

BY RACHEL SHERMAN In April, Coda Story’s Keren Weitzberg wrote about the biometric registration system in Kenya and the “double registered” ethnic Somali Kenyans left in limbo without ID cards. The country’s biometric system was intended to reduce incidences of “double registration” — a problem that mainly affects ethnic Somalis with Kenyan citizenship who falsely