The shilling slumped to a record low against the dollar on Thursday on stronger demand for the greenback, pointing to a rise in the cost of importing goods into the country in the short term. Commercial banks quoted the shilling at 107.40 to the dollar, an all-time-low, after four successive days of weakening. Demand for

European nations are not doing enough to check Russian and allied activities in Libya, the US’s senior diplomat for the Middle East said Thursday. Addressing the German Marshall Fund during a virtual discussion, David Schenker said while European capitals are “proud” of their efforts to enforce a UN arms blockade on the North African country

A Saudi court has issued an “historic” ruling in a legal case that will give women the right to live and travel freely within the kingdom without the permission of their guardian. The judgement, which will be seen as another milestone in Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s reformation of the conservative country, followed a legal

Shamima Begum argued she could not effectively appeal against Javid’s decision from detention in Syria (Screenshot) British judges ruled on Thursday that Shamima Begum, who joined the Islamic State group (IS) at 15, should be allowed to return to the United Kingdom to contest the stripping of her citizenship. Begum, now 20, absconded to IS-held

This Sunday, July 5, 2020 satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. shows the substantial damage done by an explosion and a fire at an advanced centrifuge assembly plant at Iran’s Natanz nuclear site. Israeli leaders are now hinting it was behind the massive fire at the Iranian nuclear site last week, potentially ratcheting up a

Waleed A. Elkhereiji Waleed A. Elkhereiji, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Turkey during the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, was appointed as the kingdom’s deputy foreign minister on Wednesday, Daily Sabah reported. Khashoggi, a vocal critic of Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, tech luminary Elon Musk, musician Kanye West among those affected Several prominent Twitter accounts appear to have been hacked Wednesday, including those of musician Kanye West, tech luminary Elon Musk and US presidential contender Joe Biden. The accounts of former President Barack Obama, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, financier Warren Buffet

Photo/Somali Times The Somali members of parliament 130 members of parliament are currently meeting with Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo at the presidential palace. The lawmakers are discussing with the President the issue of the country’s elections and the process, and are opposed to the lack of information that the country will hold by-elections. Some

This combination of photos provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office in Minnesota on Wednesday, June 3, 2020, shows from left, Derek Chauvin, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao. A coalition of media outlets is seeking public access to body camera video recorded by the former officers charged in the death of George

Corpses found in areas liberated from warlord Khalifa Haftar’s militia The Libyan army announced Wednesday that a total of 225 bodies have been unearthed from mass graves in the south of the capital Tripoli and in the city of Tarhuna and its surrounding areas in 40 days. The corpses were found in areas liberated from