Photo Credit/ Daily Nation/ Salat Hajir Jimale, a suspected Al-Shabaab fighter at Elwak Police Station in Mandera on February 20, 2020. A suspected Al-Shabaab militant has surrendered to security agencies in Mandera, a day after three people were killed in a bus attack. Salat Hajir Jimale, 23, surrendered to security agencies at Elwak town in

Flowers and candles are placed near the Midnight Shisha bar after a shooting in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Germany, February 20, 2020. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski A gunman with suspected far-right links shot dead nine people, some of them migrants from Turkey, in an overnight rampage through a German city before killing himself, officials said. Chancellor Angela Merkel

Photo/ Somali Times The president of the Jubbaland state, Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Islam, presiding a Thursday meeting of the Jubbaland state cabinet. Meeting discussed issues including the fight against Terrorism, The Jubbaland Cabinet has long debated the Federal Constitution, which includes the Petroleum, Information and Electoral laws, and has approved that the Jubaland state is

Photo Credit The Guardian A natural gas well at one of the Hilal gas fields in Ethiopia’s Somali region. As villagers in Somali region fall ill in unexplained circumstances, some locals fear gas exploration has tainted the local water supply At first, 23-year-old Khadar Abdi Abdullahi’s eyes began turning yellow. Then the palms of his

Photo/ Somali Times Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has signed a law that gives the central government powers to sell the country’s oil blocks for commercial drilling, giving his administration full control of the unexploited crude deposits. The new Petroleum Act paves the way for creation of a state-owned oil company with authority to sign

National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale is on the spot for distributing expired foodstuffs at an orphanage in Garissa County. The Garissa Township MP was summoned by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) yesterday to explain the matter which he has termed “fake”. The Nation has learnt that Mr Duale had been asked to appear

Photo Credit/ Daily Nation/ Ms Lillian Morara whose husband is a PhD student in Wuhan City speaks to journalists in Nairobi on February 19, 2020. When Lillian Morara’s daughter asked if her father would come back from Wuhan alive, she was caught off guard and could not answer the question. During a press conference on

Photo/ Somali Times Islamist al Shabaab militants killed at least 12 Somali soldiers and briefly captured a military base southwest of the capital on Wednesday, officials said, underscoring the insurgents’ ability to launch attacks despite a government offensive. A suicide bomber detonated at the El Salini base before gunmen stormed in and briefly occupied it,

Photo/ Somali Times An Ethiopian Colony led by Finance Minister Ahmed Shide arrived in Hargeisa Wednesday in what sources said was set to lay the groundwork for PM Abiy’s Ahmed mediation for a visit by President Mohamed Farmajo to the breakaway region of Somaliland. Ethiopian Ahmed Shide arrived in Hargeisa at about afternoon and is

Photo Credit Reuters Toby Melville Britain will prioritise access for high-skilled workers from around the world in its post-Brexit points-based immigration system, the government said on Tuesday, setting out its plans to put an end to a reliance on “cheap labour from Europe”. Concern over the impact of high levels of immigration from the European