In this Nov. 9, 2016, file photo, Vice President Joe Biden, left, looks upwards while listening to President Barack Obama speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Nearly eight years after he was last on the ballot, Obama is emerging as a central figure in the 2020 presidential election. Democrats are

In this Monday, May 11, 2020 file photo, Silvia Romano waves from a window of her home, in Milan, Italy. A right-wing lawmaker was reprimanded Wednesday for having called a young Italian woman held hostage in Somalia by Muslim extremists a “neo-terrorist” after she returned home having apparently converted to Islam. Silvia Romano, 24, stepped

The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) has established pillars that will guide its withdrawal from Somalia after eight years. Kenya and other countries contributing soldiers to the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) are expected to exit by December 2021. The plans are contained in a new book, War for Peace: Kenya’s Military in the African

TIKA distributes food packages, medical supplies in two countries. Turkey’s state-run aid agency has helped 500 families who had to leave their homes behind in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu to live in camps in the Garasbaaley region to the west. The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) distributed food packages including rice, flour, pasta, sugar and

African War Many years before the speeches and declarations that led to Ghana’s independence in 1957, there were revolutions, uprising, and wars between African tribes (or countries) and colonial powers. Often termed ‘rebellions’ when retold in history, these revolutions were resistance against slavery and colonialism. Critics continue to contest what they argue as a conscious

The “Wingracers ULTRA” drone parked by the runway at Solent Airport, in Lee-on-the-Solent, England, Tuesday, May 12, 2020. Britain is testing the use of a car-sized drone to deliver medical supplies more quickly to hospitals and help ease pressure on the country’s health system during the new coronavirus crisis. (AP Photo/James Brooks) Britain is testing

Silvia Romano, an Italian aid worker who was kidnapped by gunmen in Kenya 18 months ago, waves next to Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio at Ciampino military airport in Rome, Italy, May 10, 2020. Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Handout via REUTERS An Italian aid worker, freed at the weekend after being held hostage for

Photo: propaganda online Al-Shabaab displayed propaganda online Somali army had defected from the Jubbaland administration, which was located on a military base on the outskirts of Kismayo. In a statement released on al-Shabaab’s propaganda online, five Jubbaland soldiers surrendered, with their weapons displayed in the Lower Jubaland region. The reason behind the Somali army defected

A section of Eastleigh residents took to the street yesterday to protest restriction of movement in the area and appealed to the government to provide them with relief food. They say their livelihoods have been disrupted, leaving them with no means of generating daily income during the 15-day period that the State imposed cessation of

25-year-old aid worker released after joint operation by Italian, Turkish and Somali intelligence Rescued Italian aid worker Silvia Constanza Romano, who has embraced Islam, says she converted on her own will and not by force. Romano, 25, was abducted from Kenya’s southeastern coastal town of Chakama in November 2018. She was rescued on Sunday through