Public health officers wearing protective clothing lower the casket of Stephen Ndungu Gitau, who died from the new coronavirus while being treated in an intensive care unit, into the ground at the Langata cemetery in Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, April 16, 2020. The funeral was attended by a small number of friends and relatives but his

Photo: Credit Reuters By: Michael Horton Arms trafficking via the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea has a long history. However, the wars in Yemen and the vast number of arms and materiel provided by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have ushered in a golden age for regional arms traffickers. The

Turkey continues to provide medical aid to virus-hit countries struggling to control the pandemic as the latest deliveries were made to Poland and Somalia on Friday. Some 90,000 protective overalls were provided to Poland via four planes as a result of a video call between Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kıran and Poland’s Foreign Ministry

President Donald Trump listens during a briefing about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) President Donald Trump has given governors a road map for recovering from the economic pain of the coronavirus pandemic, laying out “a phased and deliberate

Former al-Shabaab commander and current Somali spy chief Fahad Yasin A senior official is the main contact person and is in constant communication with the militant group Report says top Shabaab and NISA leaders are in contact to derail the ongoing peace processes and target Kenyan forces in Somalia. Other NISA officials and their agents

Princess Basmah Bint Saud speaking at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC on 12 April 2017 (AFP) Princess Basmah says she is being detained without explanation or charges, and her health is deteriorating A Saudi princess, who has been missing for over a year, has spoken out publicly for the first time, pleading with

An ambulance passes a banner thanking the NHS in Kensington, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, London, Britain, April 16, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay The United Kingdom’s novel coronavirus outbreak is starting to peak but it is too early to lift the lockdown because the virus would “run rampant” if the government eased

By Vanda Felbab-Brown For the past three decades, militia groups have been a defining feature of Somalia’s conflict landscape. Communities create or join such groups to respond to conditions of insecurity and vulnerability. Somali powerbrokers, sub-federal authorities, the national government, and external interveners also turn to armed groups as a tool for pursuing their own

Coronavirus More than 1 million coronavirus tests will be rolled out starting next week in Africa to address the “big gap” in assessing the true number of cases on the continent, the head of the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. “Maybe 15 million tests” will be required in Africa over the

Photo/Somali Times According to reliable sources, Villa Somalia indicates that it is soon possible for the independent election commissioner of the nation to announce the delay of Somalia’s election. Members of the committee said, ‘The committee wanted to postpone the election to find a solution of Coronavirus, but has not yet completed its recommendations on