Somalia Ministry Health and Civil Aviation Committee to Prevent Coronavirus Disease

Photo/ Somali Times Mogadishu, The Somali government has announced a panel of government agencies that will work to prevent the outbreak of the Coronavirus epidemic in China. The committee consisting of the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation Agency and Citizenship and Immigration has the focus of the people coming down from

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Somali Ministry of Health has once again sent letters to officials of the Yardimeli Hospital license to work in Mogadishu

Photo/ Somali Times / Dr Fowsia Abikar Nur Somalia’s Minister of Health, Dr Fowsia Abikar Nur, has once again sent letters to officials of the Yardimeli Hospital in Mogadishu, demanding them to prove and come up with a law that allows them to work in Somalia but did not respond. “The Ministry of Health is

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Importers face delays in wake of deadly virus

Disruptions of the global supply chain resulting from the coronavirus outbreak have finally hit home in Kenya as vendors started reporting delayed orders from their suppliers in China. Several e-commerce firms have already sent out warnings to shoppers, noting that their orders would be delayed after many Chinese factories suspended their operations as officials tried

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Former British PM Cameron’s bodyguard forgets loaded gun in plane toilet

Britain’s former Prime Minister David Cameron arrives to attend the National Service of Remembrance, on Remembrance Sunday, at The Cenotaph in Westminster, London, Britain, November 10, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson A passenger found a loaded pistol and David Cameron’s passport in an airplane toilet after the former British prime minister’s bodyguard forgot them there, the British

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Al Shabaab ‘fires two members of executive council’ after they pushed to stop attacks on civilians

Photo/ Somali Times The terror group issued a rare apology after a blast killed 90 in Mogadishu Somali jihadist group Al-Shabaab has expelled top members of its executive council after they expressed concern over attacks against civilians, according to Somalia’s intelligence agency.Attacks on civilians have intensified in the past year in the East African country,

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Villa Somalia Source says A cabinet reshuffle

Photo/ Somali Times Mogadishu, the Somali Source official said A cabinet reshuffle ministerial, on the way Somalia becomes world number one for corruption According to Forbes. Transparency International says most countries are failing to control corruption in a meaningful way and that is contributing to a crisis in governance. “Despite some progress, most countries are

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EU rejects Trump Middle East peace plan, annexation

Josep Borrell, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission holds a news conference in Brussels, Belgium, January 10, 2020. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir/File Photo The European Union rejected parts of U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Middle East on Tuesday, prompting an angry response from Israel which has

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Saudi Arabia rejects handing over Khashoggi’s investigation to Turkey

Jamal Khashoggi speaking at AlSharq Forum conference [AlSharq Forum] Saudi Arabia yesterday refused a recent request by Turkey to obtain the investigation file conducted by the Riyadh Criminal Court on the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Turkey’s Yeni Şafak quoted local legal sources as saying that that the public prosecutor in the country’s city of

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China confirms 425 deaths from new coronavirus

More than 20,400 confirmed cases of coronavirus reported so far, says China’s National Health Commission The death toll in China from the novel coronavirus outbreak climbed to 425, the country’s National Health Commission (NHC) said Tuesday. In a statement, the commission said it has so far received a total of 20,438 confirmed cases, adding a

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UAE arranged Netanyahu, Sudan leader meet: Israel daily

Source told Israeli daily that ‘small circle’ of senior officials in Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt informed about meeting The United Arab Emirates (UAE) organized the meeting between Israeli premier and Sudan’s sovereign council head, according to an Israeli daily. On Monday, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Sudan’s Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan met in Uganda for talks. The

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