Somalia received US$ 1.9 billion in official development assistance (ODA) in 2019, comprised of roughly equal volumes of humanitarian (US$ 934 million) and development aid (US$ 924 million). The World Bank, United Kingdom, European Union and Germany were the largest providers of development aid in 2019, together providing more than 50% of total development aid

As Covid-19 continues to spread, President Uhuru Kenyatta is grappling with the same problems facing many Kenyan families — being torn apart, and having their social lives disrupted. At the moment, the President told the Nation, his wife, First Lady Margaret Kenyatta, is confined at the Coast together with his son and mother, Ngina Kenyatta.

In this May 22, 2020, photo President Donald Trump speaks with reporters about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Trump has been claiming extraordinarily sweeping powers during the coronavirus crisis that constitutional and legal scholars say the president simply doesn’t have. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) WASHINGTON (AP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the closing session of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing, Thursday, May 28, 2020. China’s ceremonial legislature has endorsed a national security law for Hong Kong that has strained relations with the United States and Britain. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) BEIJING (AP) — China’s ceremonial legislature overwhelmingly endorsed a national

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe gives a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic in Nairobi on May 27, 2020. Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe Wednesday admitted that his ministry has criminals. This is after an employee reportedly obtained personal protective equipment and Covid-19 testing kits valued at millions of shillings after forging tender documents. “This

Liban Haji Mohamed was placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list after leaving the US ( FBI ) A Virginia man who fled the country in 2012 and was suspected of trying to recruit men to join the terrorist group al-Shabaab was indicted in a federal court on a charge of conspiring to provide

European Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni talks to journalists during a news conference at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, May 20, 2020. (John Thys/Pool Photo via AP) The European Union proposed Wednesday a 750 billion-euro ($825 billion) recovery fund to help countries weather a painful recession triggered by the coronavirus and bridge divisions over

Dominic Cummings, top aide to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, leaves his home in north London, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. The British government faced accusations of hypocrisy after the revelation that Cummings traveled more than 250 miles (400 kms) to his parents’ house during a nationwide lockdown while he was showing coronavirus symptoms. (Kirsty O’Connor/PA

Former Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed warns against election delay and calls civil war Former Somalia President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed warned federal government leadership, the speakers of the two Houses of Parliament against further delays in the holding of elections or extend the terms of the president and parliament, saying the country would plunge into

Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has centralised power and get rid of any opponents to his ascension to the throne (AFP/File photo) Authorities arrested Saad al-Jabri’s children and brother in an attempt to coerce him to return from Canada, sources say Human rights advocates are calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately release the family of former