Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a press conference to brief the media on the government’s coronavirus action plan, at Downing Street in London, Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Johnson is announcing plans for combating the spread of the new COVID-19 coronavirus in UK.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool) Retired doctors could be called back to work, police

Tourists wear protective face masks, following the outbreak of the new coronavirus, as they walk at the Grand Souq in old Dubai, United Arab Emirates March 2, 2020. REUTERS/Christopher Pike Major concerts and events in the United Arab Emirates, an air transit center as well as a tourism and business hub, have been canceled or

Photo/ Somali Times Nearly 56,000 people displaced in Gedo, Jubaland State since early February: OCHA The United Nations on Tuesday called for the protection of civilians as escalating violence displaces nearly 56,000 people in southern Somalia. Preliminary reports indicate that up to 9,000 households (approximately 56,000 people) have been displaced in Gedo, Jubaland State following

A Shell logo sits on a sign at a gas station, operated by Royal Dutch Shell Plc., in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Wednesday, July 25, 2018. Shell is scheduled to release earnings figures on July 26. Photographer: Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg By Ed Reed Somalia has reached an “initial roadmap” with a Shell and ExxonMobil joint venture on

Photo/ Somali Times At least 16 people were killed and several others wounded when a fierce fighting between the Somali special forces and Jubaland forces took place in Belet-Hawo Somalia’s , an official said on Monday. The fight began after Somali special forces attacked the Jubaland forces to loyal Abdirashid Janan, fugitive former security minister

Upper respiratory tract infections, skin disease and malaria are leading illnesses taking Kenyans to hospital. A report by the government statistics agency also lists diarrhoea, arthritis, fever, urinary tract infection and hypertension as the other ailments that burden majority of Kenyans.The report by the Kenya Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows the burden of upper respiratory

Photo/Somali Times Belet-Hawo-Fighting broke out in the border town of Belet-Hawo in Gedo region Monday morning between Somali federal forces and Jubaland troops displacing people from their homes. The fighting which happened in Border Point One area near the Kenyan border caused panic as locals fled from their homes, a source in the town told

By AGGREY MUTAMBO Kenya has rejected claims it is interfering with Somalia’s internal affairs and dismissed them as “fabricated for political expediency”. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has written a protest note to Mogadishu in response to a statement issued on Friday by Somali Ambassador to the UN, Abukar Dahir Osman, who said Nairobi was

Armed drones, fire support vehicles target Al-Nayrab military airport, making it out of service, local sources say The Turkish Armed Forces targeted the Syrian regime’s military airport in Aleppo, according to local sources on Sunday. Al-Nayrab military airport, on the outskirts of Aleppo city center, was known as one of the bases that the Assad

Police on Sunday held and questioned 11 MPs from the Northeastern region on allegations that they took a trip to Somalia without authorisation. Reports indicated that they travelled for an unknown mission without the permission of the Foreign Affairs ministry or National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi. Sunday saw police wait for the lawmakers at Wilson