Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Monica Juma who tweeted on Saturday in reference to the Friday attack in the Kismayo emerging smear campaign Monica Juma has urged the international community to hasten the listing of Al-Shabaab as a terrorist organization under the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1267 of 1999, following a terrorist attack on

Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen shakes hands with Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise during her visit in Port-au-Prince, Haiti July 13, 2019. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen visited Haiti on Saturday in an attempt to bolster support in the region after the neighboring Dominican Republic broke diplomatic ties with Taiwan last year. The visit to

Photo/Facebook page Hodan Nalayeh Family and friends of Hodan Nalayeh are remembering the Somali-Canadian journalist killed in a terrorist attack this week for her work redefining the global Somali identity through positive storytelling. Nalayeh, a broadcast reporter born in Somalia with roots in Edmonton and Toronto, died with her husband in an attack at a

Photo/Somali Times Kismayo. (Somali Times). The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, HE Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has sent condolences to the families and relatives of the Somali national who died in the terror attack in Kismayo. President Mohamed has called on the international community to step up its efforts to stabilize the Horn of

Romania’s Simona Halep returns the ball to United States’ Serena Williams during the women’s singles final match on day twelve of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Saturday, July 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) Simona Halep won her first Wimbledon title and kept Serena Williams from winning her eighth. Halep beat Williams 6-2, 6-2 on

Photo/Somali Times Somali diaspora escape the civil war, but the people are more than welcome to come back and get their property Mayor of Mogadishu and Benadir Regional Governor; Eng Abdirahman Omar Osman handed over a key to a Somali citizen Lul Mohamed Ahmed, she left in 1991 Mogadishu when the civil war started property

Photo/Somali Times The death toll from the attack on a hotel in Somalia’s port city of Kismayu has risen to 26, with Kenyans, Americans, a Briton and Tanzanians among the dead, Jubbaland region’s president said on Saturday. A presidential candidate for upcoming regional elections was also killed in the assault by four militants, Jubbaland president

First parts of a Russian S-400 missile defense system are unloaded from a Russian plane at Murted Airport, known as Akinci Air Base, near Ankara, Turkey, July 12, 2019. Turkish Military/Turkish Defence Ministry/Handout via REUTERS Turkey began taking delivery of an advanced Russian missile defense system on Friday, a move expected to trigger U.S. sanctions

Photo/Facebook Page Hodan Naleeye, According to Associated Press at least 10 people confirmed dead. The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab extremist group, which often targets , claimed responsibility for the attack. Those killed include Canadian journalist Hodan Nalayeh, local officials confirmed . Hodan Nalayeh is the founder and host of Integration TV , an English TV show that

A car bomb went off on Friday at a hotel in Somalia’s port city of Kismayu where local elders and lawmakers had been discussing an upcoming regional election and was followed by gunfire, police said, adding that the death toll could be high. The militant Islamist group al Shabaab, which is trying to topple Somalia’s