In this May 2, 2013 photo the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Mesdar is seen at an unknown location. British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed Friday July 19, 2019 that Iran had seized one British, the Stena Impero, and one Liberian-flagged vessel, Mesdar, in the Strait of Hormuz. It was the latest escalation of tension in the

In the 11-months to May, National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich spent nearly all the tax collected on items that can’t spark economic growth. For every Sh100 that the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) collected during 2018/19 financial year, about Sh61 went pay interest, salaries and pensions leaving very little for development activities such as building

Photo/Somali Times Mogadishu, The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, HE Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, received a delegation from the African Union and IGAD delegation led by the former South African President, Thabo Mbeki. The mission of the delegation is based on the assessment of the security and economic situation in the country, in the

Photo/Reuters British Airways abruptly suspended flights to Cairo for a week from Saturday over security concerns, giving no details about what had prompted the move. “We constantly review our security arrangements at all our airports around the world, and have suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precaution to allow for further assessment,”

Photo/Somali Times The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, HE Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed addressed the governor of the Puntland State of Somalia Mr. Said Abdullahi Deni, emphasized the importance of co-operation between the Government and the states. The President underscored that the Federal Government of Somalia will extend the country’s development programs to all

Mogadishu, The former South African President and head of the African Union high-level implementation panel for South Sudan and Sudan, Thabo Mbeki arrived in Mogadishu on Saturday. Mbeki and his delegation were received by Somali Foreign Minister, Ambassador Ahmed Isse Awad and others, including the UN Special envoy in Somalia, James Swan. The African Union

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz is seen during the 14th Islamic summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia June 1, 2019. Bandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout via REUTERS Saudi Arabia’s King Salman approved hosting U.S. forces in the country to boost regional security and stability, the state news

Photo/The Canary Iranian authorities in the Persian Gulf have reportedly seized two British oil tankers. This comes amid rising UK-Iranian tensions which began when Royal Marines helped to seize an Iranian oil tanker in the Mediterranean on 4 July. A former commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) responded by saying his country should seize a

In this May 1, 2019, photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) transits the San Diego Bay in San Diego, Calif. President Donald Trump says the USS Boxer destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions between the two countries. Trump says it’s the

Photo/Toronto Star Amaal Nuux’s is, admittedly, kind of an ideal “Toronto” story: a former refugee of Somali-Muslim extraction defies the deeply embedded socio-cultural codes against women making music in her home country by flirting with mainstream R&B success at the international level, from her adopted home base in a far more pluralistic and permissive Canadian