Former Mogadishu Mayor Thabit Abdi Mohamed has asked security heads to come clear on the functionality of CCTV at the meeting hall where a female suicide bomber detonated herself last Wednesday killing seven people. In a Facebook post on Saturday Mohamed raised the issue over reports that some of the CCTV installed at the Mayor’s

Dr Imaana Laibuta (left) when he appeared for an interview with the Judicial Service Commission in 2016 for the position of Supreme Court judge, When the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) announced the list of 11 nominees for appointment as Court of Appeal judges, Dr Kibaya Imaana Laibuta did not receive any special mention apart from

The political battle pitting the Somalia federal government against Jubbaland state appeared to worsen this week after Jubbaland President Ahmed Islam Madobe announced he had “suspended” co-operation with Mogadishu. After a meeting with his council of ministers, Sheikh Madobe told local media there will be no further engagement with Mogadishu until the issues around electoral

FILE – In this Tuesday, April 2, 2109 file photo, House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Elijah Cummings, D-Md., leads a meeting to call for subpoenas after a career official in the White House security office says dozens of people in President Donald Trump’s administration were granted security clearances despite “disqualifying issues” in their backgrounds,

Bags containing the bodies of migrants who died after their wooden boat capsized off the coast of Komas, are seen in the hangar belonging to an anti-illegal migration department in the town east of the capital Tripoli, Libya July 27, 2019. REUTERS/Ayman al-Sahili Fifty-five bodies have been recovered so far off the Libyan coast, an

A United States court has been told of gun trade link between the Akasha family and Al Shabaab terrorist group. US Attorney Geoffrey Berman submitted in court, details of how the Akashas trafficked weapons with members of the terrorist organisation. This was a confession by the drugs empire point man Vijay Goswami who spilled the

Photo/Daily Sabah Armored vehicle manufacturer Katmerciler has recorded its first export after it signed a $20-million deal to sell Hızır, the most powerful armored combat vehicle in its segment, to an undisclosed African country. The delivery will be completed in the 2019-20 period. Hızır has recently entered the inventory of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK),

In this photo released by the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. President Hassan Rouhani suggested on Wednesday that Iran might release a U.K.-flagged ship if Britain takes similar steps to release an Iranian oil tanker seized by the British Royal

Rescued migrants sit on a coast some 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, July 25, 2019. The U.N. refugee agency and the International Rescue Committee say up to 150 may have perished at sea off the coast of Libya. The country’s coast guard says the Europe-bound migrants are missing and feared drowned

A view of North Korea’s missile launch on Thursday, in this undated picture released by North Korea’s Central News Agency (KCNA) on July 26, 2019. KCNA/via REUTERS North Korea said on Friday its latest missile launch was a warning to South Korean “warmongers” to stop importing weapons and conducting joint military drills, a message that