AFP / ATTA KENARE/Pro-government supporters held a mass rally earlier this week to condemn days of ‘rioting’ which Iran has blamed on foreign foes Iran has arrested eight people accused of links to the CIA and gathering information to send abroad during deadly street violence that erupted after a fuel price hike triggered demonstrations. A

A video screen grab shows the moment that Mahdi Mohamud began to stab unsuspecting victims at a Manchester, Britain, trains station. BBC A U.K. judge has sentenced a man who screamed “allahu Akbar” while stabbing commuters at random in Manchester’s Victoria Train station on New Year’s Eve to at least 11 years in prison. Judge

A protester holds American flags during a demonstration in Central, the financial district of Hong Kong, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019. China reacted furiously to President Donald Trump’s signing of two bills on Hong Kong human rights and said the U.S. will bear the unspecified consequences. A foreign ministry statement Thursday repeated heated condemnations of the

Photo/Somali Times Mogadishu, The Governor of Banadir region and the mayor of Mogadishu, Mr. Omar Mohamud Mohamed (Omar Filish) held a special meeting with officials of the country’s armed forces, discussing the strength of the fight against al-Shabaab. Abdullahi Gafow, a former NISA commander and other members of the Benadir regional administration, was present at

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta holds hands with Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto and Opposition leader Raila Odinga during the launch of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), a government report intended to address cyclical election violence in Nairobi, Kenya, November 27, 2019. REUTERS/Monica Mwangi Kenya should create more senior political posts including that of prime minister

We, the undersigned regional and international partners* of Somaliland, recall the significant agreement between political parties in July 2019 which recognised the “critical importance of holding the long due Parliamentary and Local Council Elections” and “agreed to hold the elections as soon as they will be politically and technically possible”. We are concerned that events

CBK Governor Patrick Njoroge The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has defied an order from the Treasury for State agencies to surrender cash and Treasury bills, saying that the banking regulator is not in the business of bailing out a cash-strapped government. CBK Governor Patrick Njoroge Tuesday said it would not be coaxed to surrender

Civil servants will be blocked from running private businesses or competing for government tenders if the Building Bridges Initiative report. Civil servants will be blocked from running private businesses or competing for government tenders if the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report, which is set to be made public today, is adopted. The proposal, which was

Photo/Somali Times The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation, Ahmed Issa Awad, met yesterday in Saudi Arabia with Saudi counterpart Amir Faisal Bin Farhan Bin Abdallah, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. They also discussed efforts to strengthen bilateral relations and joint cooperation in all areas, and ways to achieve the interests between Mogadishu and Riyadh,

Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) display gold bars seized from a plane that landed at Khartoum Airport in an investigation into possible smuggling, in Khartoum Sudan May 9, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah Late last year, as President Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s hold on power weakened, one of Sudan’s most feared militia leaders lashed out against the