Photo/ Somali Times Three people were killed and about 20 others injured Saturday following a car bomb explosion in Afgooye area. An explosives-laden car blew up near a food café in Afgooye with initial reports indicating it was targeting Turkish contractors who are involved in road construction in the area. Sources told Somali Times the

Photo/ Somali Times Four National Army soldiers killed in attack More than 40 al-Shabaab terrorists were killed by the Somali National Army (SNA), officials said. Gen. Mohamed Ahmed Taredishe told reporters the terrorists were killed after they attacked a military base in the middle Shabelle region. More than 30 terrorists were wounded during the gunfight

A traveler wears a facemask as she stands near the Beijing Railway Station in Beijing, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. A second person has died from a new form of coronavirus in central China, health authorities said late Thursday. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) By Alex Woodward CDC deploys 100 workers to check passengers coming from Wuhan into

Doraleh: DP World, which built the port and ran it for more than a decade from 2006, estimates its losses at more than $1bn. By David Osler The government of Djibouti says it will not accept a London Court of International Arbitration ruling that it should restore the Doraleh Container Terminal concession to DP World,

Kenya is in advanced talks with the World Bank for “a fairly priced” loan of up to 100 billion shillings ($991.57 million), nearly half of its required external funding this fiscal year, a senior Treasury official said on Friday. The East African nation wants to cut debt from overseas capital markets, after a borrowing binge

President Uhuru Kenyatta President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that security officers will mount sting operation to flush out Al Shabaab operatives in the North Eastern and Coastal regions which have witnessed a spike in terrorist attacks since December. The Head of State announced the move on Friday as he heralded a fresh war against terror

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prays near the coffins of Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed in an air strike at Baghdad airport, in Tehran, Iran January 6, 2020. Official Khamenei website/Handout via REUTERS Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said

In this image from video, presiding officer Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts swears in members of the Senate for the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. (Senate Television via AP) The U.S. Senate opened the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump with quiet ceremony

Photo Credit/ Daily Nation/The aircraft belonging to Yellow Wings Air Services after the crash landing. A light aircraft en route to the Amboseli National Park on Thursday morning crash-landed at Mashuru area in Kajiado County. The plane that came from Wilson Airport in Nairobi was ferrying three tourists. The pilot and passengers escaped with minor

The scale of the problem is unknown as visit visas do not appear in Indian or UAE migration or employment records [File: Rabih Moghrabi/AFP] An increasing number of migrant workers hired on tourist visa face labour abuse, police and activists said. Exploitative employers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are increasingly using tourist visas to