President Uhuru Kenyatta and US leader Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC during an official visit August 27, 2018 . PHOTO | JOAN PERERUAN | NMG The US has given Kenya Sh40 billion in counterterrorism aid over the last decade, a new report has shown, placing the country’s security agencies among Africa’s

In ordering Myanmar on Thursday to take immediate measures to prevent atrocities against its Muslim Rohingya minority, the International Court of Justice in The Hague was handing down a binding ruling with no possibility of appeal – and no means of enforcement. It was exercising its power to ordain provisional measures – a restraining order

Roadside bomb targeted armored vehicle carrying African Union mission’s soldiers, local media says A Burundian soldier serving under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) was killed on Wednesday in a roadside blast in the outskirts of Mogadishu, local media and police said. According to media reports, several other soldiers were also injured when an

Photo Credit Reuters Somalian President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has offered to take in Swedish-Somalian Islamic State members, stating that he will accept them if European countries will not take them. Kurdish authorities have said that around half of the Swedish woman in the al-Hol prison camp have a Somalian background, a number estimated to be

Photo/Somali Times The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, who met with the United Nations Security Council in Somalia, shared information on the areas liberated by Somali Army, the plan was to reform the Somali National Army and fight to eliminate. Al-shabaab extremist ideology.’  The President proposed to the UN Security

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud expressed full support for the Greek Cypriot administration amid ongoing tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean following a meeting with Greek Cypriot Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday. Greek Cypriot daily Politis cited a statement by the Saudi foreign minister which said, “Saudi Arabia carefully follows ongoing

Photo Credit Reuters Iraqi President Barham Salih met U.S. President Donald Trump in Davos Iraqi President Barham Salih met U.S. President Donald Trump in Davos on Wednesday and discussed reducing foreign troops in the country, the Iraqi presidency said, after Washington spurned an Iraqi request earlier this month to pull out its troops. “During the

Photo Credit Reuters Two UN officials will report on Wednesday that there is enough evidence suggesting that Saudi Arabia had hacked Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos’ phone and both the kingdom and the United States should investigate, a person familiar with the matter said. The United Nations’ officials plan a public statement asserting that they

Over 250 workers stranded in Dubai with no job, pay, food Image Credit: Twitter Indian consulate steps in, staff confirms the company closed in September Speaking to Gulf News, some workers of the company said that for the last seven months they have not been paid salaries. In addition, for the the past four months,

Somalia’s offering of offshore oil exploration tenders will be open to all, the country’s Petroleum and Mineral Resources minister said on Tuesday, a day after Ankara announced its eagerness to participate in exploration in the region. While Somalia enjoys good relations with Turkey, the country’s oil operations will be transparent and without favoritism toward any