In this Thursday, April 2, 2020 handout photo provided by 10 Downing Street, Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson claps outside 11 Downing Street to salute local heroes during Thursday’s nationwide Clap for Carers NHS initiative to applaud workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic, in London. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to a hospital

U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Donald Yamamoto The US embassy in Somalia has defended popular journalist Harun Maruf after the NISA’s intelligence and security agencies threatened to take action. In a statement posted on Twitter to the US embassy it said. ” Harun Maruf is a respectful and professional man. He is one of the most

Britain’s Secretary of State for Health Matt Hancock and Britain’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak leave Downing Street in London, Britain, September 4, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay British Health Secretary Matt Hancock on Sunday denied there was any disagreement with Finance Minister Rishi Sunak about when lockdown restrictions to fight the coronavirus could be

Seventy-six patients have died in Turkey after contracting COVID-19 in the previous 24 hours, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced on Saturday, raising the country’s death toll to 501. Another 3,013 new cases in Turkey have been diagnosed out of the 19,664 tests administered in the previous 24 hours, Koca said. Turkey’s total confirmed number

Ethiopia’s government appointed a new head of security in the restive, gas-rich state of Somali, two days after the incumbent was dismissed, the Ethiopian News Agency reported. Hussein Kassim, a former adviser to Somali state’s president, will replace Abdi Adil Hassan. Hassan was dismissed earlier this week, according to a local media report. The Somali

© Birmingham Mail Sheikh Mohammed Aslam A Birmingham Imam is urging youngsters to stay at home to protect the lives of their elders. Sheikh Mohammed Aslam asked youths not to gather in parks and to imagine what their mothers would do to protect them if it was predominately the young dying from Covid-19. Sheikh Aslam

This Oct. 9, 2018, file photo shows an oil rig and pump jack in Midland, Texas. Goldman Sachs is warning of another sharp drop in oil prices, Thursday, March 26, 2020, saying some oil producers are eventually going to have to shut some wells because the coronavirus outbreak is crushing demand. (Jacob Ford/Odessa American via

A man wearing a protective face mask exercises in Greenwich Park, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, London, Britain, April 4, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay – RC2OXF9TNUBP Britain is unlikely to lift its stringent lockdown rules until the end of May, once the spread of the coronavirus has started to slow, a leading

Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) condemns the recent threats of intimidation and censorship against journalists reporting Covid-19 in Mogadishu and Hargeisa. On 30 March, during a meeting with the local journalists in Hargeisa, Somaliland’s Vice President, Abdirahman Abdullahi Seylici described any journalist who reports any Coronavirus case before the government confirmation “as a national criminal” in

Photo/Somali Times Somalia is at a critical juncture where immediate action can still curb the spread of COVID-19 and save lives. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the impact that the virus could have on communities weakened by violence and conflict, where displacement, malnutrition, and outbreaks of disease are