Photo/Somali Times Somalia will press ahead with poverty reduction efforts and a major regional ports and corridors initiative if international creditors forgive the country’s $5 billion debt this February, as expected, the country’s finance minister said on Sunday. Finance Minister Abdirahman Duale Beileh said he was heartened by progress made during discussions with officials from

Photo/Daily Nation/A deserted construction site at Itare Dam in Kuresoi South, Nakuru County. A parliamentary committee has warned that the government risks not getting value for the Sh120 billion invested in the construction of eight dams across the country. It has emerged that some of the projects are way behind schedule while others stalled after

Photo (AP) South Sudan’s opposition leader Riek Machar warned Sunday that the country could return to civil war if a coalition government is formed by a Nov. 12 deadline and he asked for another months-long delay for the crucial step in a fragile peace deal. Machar made an impassioned plea to a visiting United Nations

Somali government operated propaganda machine Facebook, twitter Instagram and spends millions U. S Dollar donor aid, Instead building schools, hospital housing sector, Former Media Officer for the late Mogadishu Mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman is under police custody. Abdinur has been held at the CID headquarters. According to Somali officials that Ahmed Abdinur was arrested on

Photo/ InfoMigrants Whitehall sources are working with local agencies to bring back minors born to Islamic State fighters British officials have taken the first steps to repatriate children stranded in Syria by liaising directly with agencies on the ground to identify unaccompanied minors for “safe passage” back to the UK. Whitehall sources have confirmed they

Photo (AP) Australia’s Qantas on Sunday completed the first non-stop commercial flight from New York to Sydney, which was used to run a series of tests to assess the effects of ultra long-haul flights on crew fatigue and passenger jetlag. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner touched down in Sydney early Sunday morning after a flight of

Photo/Somali Times Somalia is negotiating with Turkey and Eritrea for deployment of their military commanders and supply of equipment for the war against Al-Shabaab when the African peacekeepers under Amisom, finally withdraw in 2021. But the deployment can only be bilateral with the approval of the United Nations Security Council, which despite ordering the phased

Total of 10,480 African students graduate from Turkish universities so far, President Erdogan says Turkish President praised Saturday the high-level bilateral relations between Turkey and Africa. “As a result of our efforts, we have brought up Turkey-Africa relations to a level that could not have been even imagined 15 years ago,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said

Britain’s opposition Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn listens as Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks at the House of Commons as parliament discusses Brexit, sitting on a Saturday for the first time since the 1982 Falklands War, in London, Britain, October 19, 2019, in this screen grab taken from video. Parliament TV via REUTERS British

World Bank President David Malpass walks to the podium before he speaks at the opening ceremony of the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Washington, Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) The leaders of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank appealed to their 189 member countries on Friday to resolve widening disagreements