At least 90 people were killed when a bomb-laden truck exploded at a busy checkpoint in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, an international organization working in the country said, in the deadliest attack in more than two years. The dead included many students and two Turkish nationals, Somalia’s foreign minister said, adding that dozens

Photo/Somali Times Mogadishu, Members of the Somali Federal Parliament held a regular meeting on Saturday at Villa Hargeisa in Mogadishu. The agenda for today’s session is the third reading of the National Electoral Law, which was debated by MPs in recent days. Today’s hottest debate has been passed by MPs on the electoral law, which

Photo/Somali Times Mogadishu, Over 73 people has so far been confirmed dead and close to 120 others injured as the death toll in the Ex-Control truck bombing rises. Medina Hospital confirmed it has received 73 bodies from the scene of the bombing which rocked Ex- Control area in the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu Saturday

Photo/Somali Times Mogadishu, At least 73 people have been killed and more than 120 others injured in a suicide car bomb attack in Mogadishu. The hospitals in Mogadishu have been hit with a variety of injuries and many dead bodies remain unaccounted for, and busiest hospitals in the city are filled with missing people. The

Ethiopia on Friday charged the former head of the state electricity company and the former deputy head of military-run industrial conglomerate METEC with corruption in relation to the giant hydroelectric dam the country is building. Azeb Asnake and Mulu Woldegebriel were charged in relation to a 5.1 billion Ethiopian birr (about $159 million) contract awarded

Photo/Somali Times At least 35 people were killed and close to 120 injured in a truck bombing attack in Ex-Control area in the outskirts of Mogadishu. The Ministry of Information said in a statement 35 people were killed, but multiple sources indicate the death toll was much higher. Mogadishu mayor Omar Filish told reporters at

Members of the Ethiopian Parliament in Addis Ababa. (Photo by Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) The Ethiopian House of Peoples’ Representative (HoPR) approved an agreement that was signed between the governments of Ethiopia and Djibouti to install a cross-border pipeline to transport natural gas. The HoPR, the lower house of the Ethiopian parliament, “approved the

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan poses with a prototype of the domestic electric car project in Gebze, Turkey, December 27, 2019. Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS Turkey unveiled its first fully domestically-produced car on Friday, saying it aimed to eventually produce up to 175,000 a year of the electric vehicle in a project expected to cost

Photo, a Deliveroo logo on a bicycle in London. British regulators said Friday Dec. 27, 2019, they are launching a full-scale investigation of Amazon’s plan to purchase a stake in Deliveroo to determine if it would dampen competition. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File) British regulators said Friday they are launching a full-scale investigation of Amazon’s plan

Photo/AFP / Jack GUEZ/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was expected to beat rival Gideon Saar but the convincing margin of victory strengthened his position in the party he has dominated for 20 years Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told supporters Friday he would win a March general election after scoring a landslide victory