British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seen outside Downing Street in London, Britain October 24, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party holds a 16-point lead over the opposition Labour Party ahead of a parliamentary vote on Monday on whether to hold a snap general election, according to an Opinium poll. According

U.S. Mission to the United Nations Ambassador Pecsteen, thank you for your briefing today. Your work as the chair of the 751 committee continues to contribute not only to the work of this Council, but also to the international efforts to advance peace and stability within Somalia and in the region. Despite positive developments, the

Elm Secondary School in Hargeisa, Somaliland. A group of Kenyan teachers who work at the school claim that their employer subjects them to labour exploitation. It came disguised as a once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity: a teaching job at a prestigious international school in Hargeisa, Somaliland, with a salary of Sh50,000 a month, free air ticket, work

Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, 30, a Somali immigrant, is shown in this police booking photo provided in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, October 2, 2017. Edmonton Police Department/Handout via REUTERS A Somali immigrant who ran down a Canadian police officer with a truck and then stabbed him repeatedly was found guilty on Friday of attempted murder, the Crown

Photo/AFP / STRINGER Supporters of Jawar Mohammed, a member of the Oromo ethnic group who has been a critic of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, gathered outside his home in Addis Ababa on Thursday after he accused security forces of trying to orchestrate an attack on him At least 16 people have been killed in violence

Elman and her colleagues. Pic Credit: Twitter Iman Elman is a female captain in the Somali National Army, making her the youngest female commander in Somalia. Her focus is to help defeat the jihadist fundamentalist group, Al-Shabab, to improve the condition of Somali women. Since joining the army in 2011, Captain Elman has risen to

The Moscow Times/Valery Sharifullin / TASS President Vladimir Putin hosted the first-ever Russia-Africa summit Wednesday and Thursday in the latest display of Moscow’s efforts to restore its geopolitical foothold on the continent after the fall of the Soviet Union. Amid a deluge of memoranda of understanding and cooperation agreements, Russia clinched a series of trade

Flowers are seen at the scene where bodies were discovered in a lorry container, in Grays, Essex, Britain October 24, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson Police were given extra time on Thursday to question a driver arrested on suspicion of murder after 39 people, believed to be Chinese nationals, were found dead in a refrigerated truck near

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, poses for a photo with leaders of African countries at the Russia-Africa summit in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. (Valery Sharifulin, TASS News Agency Pool Photo via AP) Russian President Vladimir Putin is telling leaders at the first-ever Russia-Africa summit that developing economic and

Photo/Daily Nation/From left: Kenya Revenue Authority Board chairman Francis Muthaura, acting National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yattani and Treasury Economic Secretary Geoffrey Mwau during a past function in Nairobi. Kenya is facing a debt crisis but government officials don’t seem to know what to do about it. The obvious route is to borrow some more