Mogadishu, The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, . Ahmed Isse Awad, received yesterday in Mogadishu the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Federal Republic of Somalia His Excellency Mr. Benjamin James Fender, during which he discussed enhancing the bilateral relations between the two friendly countries and means of developing cooperation in all

Three Somali officials with diplomatic passports were denied entry at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi on Monday evening in a tiff that seems to be escalating between Kenya and its neighbour. A Somali based media , identified the three as Osman Liban (Deputy Minister of Water and Energy) and Senators Ilyas Ali Hassan and

A woman uses a smartphone outside a Huawei store in Beijing Monday, May 20, 2019. Google is assuring users of Huawei smartphones the American company’s services still will work on them following U.S. government restrictions on doing business with the Chinese tech giant. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) By FRANK BAJAK and MICHAEL LIEDTKE Trump administration

Somalia passed a petroleum sector law on Monday, paving the way for exploration in its waters that could potentially transform the troubled country’s economy if hydrocarbon riches are found. The new legislation allows for the creation of institutions to oversee the sector and for revenue sharing between the central government and federal states, among other

Eighteen people were killed when Islamist terrorist group al-Shabaab attacked an army base in southern Somalia, a local official said on Monday.“Among the dead were 14 militants and four soldiers, who had been manning the army base in Bakol province when al-Shabaab attacked with heavily armed vehicles in the early hours of Monday,’’ Mohamed Abdi

In April 2015, President Omar al-Bashir traveled to the heart of Sudan’s conflict-ravaged Darfur region to congratulate one of his hand-picked commanders on a recent victory over rebels. Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemedti, had led the so-called Rapid Support Forces on a series of counterinsurgency campaigns in Darfur and other restive provinces.

By Paul D. Williams For over a decade, a dozen states and multilateral organizations have invested considerable time, effort, equipment, and hundreds of millions of dollars to build an effective Somali National Army (SNA). So far, they’ve failed. This was the conclusion of a multinational readiness assessment of the SNA conducted during 2017 by the

CORRECTS DATE – In this Friday, May 17, 2019, photo released by the U.S. Navy, the USS Abraham Lincoln sails in the Arabian Sea near the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge. Commercial airliners flying over the Persian Gulf risk being targeted by “miscalculation or misidentification” from the Iranian military amid heightened tensions between the Islamic

KENYA HAS POTENTIAL’: US Ambassador to Kenya Kyle McCarter • Tells Kenya to make choice between Big Four and corruption. • The US is supporting DCI ‘100 per cent’. Corrupt Kenyans will neither be allowed into the US nor pay for their children’s education there, US ambassador to Kenya Kyle McCarter said in Nairobi. The

A damaged bus is seen at the site of a blast near a new museum being built close to the Giza pyramids in Cairo, Egypt May 19, 2019. REUTERS/Ahmed Fahmy An explosion targeting a tourist bus injured at least 12 people on Sunday, mostly South African tourists, near a new museum being built close to