A pre-dawn raid by the terrorist group al-Shabaab on a military base in southern Somalia has left at least 18 people dead, officials told dpa on Sunday. “We have lost five soldiers in this terrorist attack. Our troops have also killed 13 militants,” Somali military official Mohamed Abdi said. The incident was the latest in

Turkish president to address international peace and security issues at UN General Assembly President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday arrived in New York to attend the 74th session of UN General Assembly. Erdogan was received at John F. Kennedy International Airport by Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey’s UN Ambassador Feridun Sinirlioglu and Turkey’s Ambassador to

Ethiopia said on Saturday it had arrested an unspecified number of Islamist militant members of the Somali group al Shabaab and Islamic State who were planning to carry out attacks in the country on various targets including hotels. Some of those arrested were carrying out intelligence work including photographing potential targets, the National Intelligence Security

Protesters chant slogans against the regime in Cairo, Egypt, early Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019. Dozens of people held a rare protest in Cairo during which they called on Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to quit. Security forces dispersed the protesters and no casualties were reported. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty) Rare anti-government protests broke out in several Egyptian

Kenya’s High Commissioner to the UK, Manoah Esipisu (right) addressing the Annual Kenya Society on September 20, 2019 in London, as Chairman Kenya Society Patrick Orr looks on. Kenya is hoping to seal a post-Brexit trade agreement with the United Kingdom by the start of next year, to create continuity in market access. Kenya’s High

Photo/Daily Mail/Mohammed Tahir Ayaz, 26, and his wife Ikra Hussain, 20, of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire have been named by Pakistani authorities after their arrest at an airport on suspicion of smuggling £2 million of heroin By Darren Boyle Mohammed Tahir Ayaz and his wife Ikra Hussain were arrested in Pakistan The couple from Huddersfield are

Photo/Reuters Iran will pursue any aggressor, even it carries out a limited attack, and seek to destroy it, the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday, after attacks on Saudi oil sites which Riyadh and U.S officials blamed on Tehran. “Be careful, a limited aggression will not remain limited. We will pursue any

Photo/Somali Times Somalia which has been ranked for ten consecutive years by the watchdog Transparency International as the most corrupt country in the world. President, Somalia receives upward of a billion dollars annually in aid, yet Transparency International has ranked Somalia as the world’s most corrupt country for well over a decade, more corrupt even

According to Somaliland standard report Minister of Transport from Somaliland has unlawfully awarded 325, 000 US dollar contract to supply dump trucks and grader to relative trader. The trader will supply the equipment to the road development authority. According to the official agreement, the minister has entered into the agreement with the trader by the

The modern scramble for Africa is intensifying and Arab nations have been the most active foreign players as well as fierce competitors in the region, especially after the beginning of the Qatar blockade by its Gulf neighbours in the summer of 2017. The rift has exceeded the Gulf region and reached all the way to