A TV screen shows a file footage of North Korea’s missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 4, 2019. North Korea on Saturday fired several unidentified short-range projectiles into the sea off its eastern coast, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said, a likely

Photo Reuters The United States accused China on Friday of putting well more than a million minority Muslims in “concentration camps,” in some of the strongest U.S. condemnation to date of what it calls Beijing’s mass detention of mostly Muslim Uighur minority and other Muslim groups. The comments by Randall Schriver, who leads Asia policy

By Samuel Ramani From port competition to the Somaliland issue, China and the UAE’s conflicting interests in the region are not easy to reconcile. On April 26, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Makhtoum, the ruler of Dubai, signed $3.4 billion in investment deals between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and China. These contracts were hailed in

The National Union of Somali Journalists and its affiliate regional member organizations organized hundreds of Somali journalists to mark the World Press Freedom Day celebrated globally every 3th of May. Hundreds of journalists in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu and the federal member states are participating in the celebrations on May 3,2019. Every year, 3 May is

Bosaso, Regional administrations has opposed the laws passed by the cabinet of the federal government in Somalia after a meeting in Mogadishu. Clearly contravening the rules, the Galmudug administration and the Puntland administration have said that there is no consultation with the federal government of Somalia. It was yesterday when an extraordinary meeting held in

UK Foreign Secretary arrived in Ethiopia on Thursday 2 May, where he attended at the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day celebrations in Addis Ababa. United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt will be visiting Kenya today, Foreign and commonwealth office has announced. The Foreign Secretary is visiting Nairobi at the end of a five day tour

A woman arrives to vote at a Polling Station in Hale, Britain, May 2, 2019. REUTERS/Phil Noble British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party were both punished by English voters in a local election for the deadlock over Brexit, partial results showed on Friday. With more than 40 percent of English

Photo (AP) A pharmaceutical company founder accused of paying doctors millions in bribes to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray was convicted Thursday in a case that exposed such marketing tactics as using a stripper-turned-sales-rep to give a physician a lap dance. John Kapoor, the 76-year-old former chairman of Insys Therapeutics, was found guilty of

Successes and failures in Kenya’s eight-year-long military campaign against al-Shabaab are examined in a recently published history of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom). Kenya’s 4000-plus troops have contributed to Amisom’s rollback of territory controlled by Shabaab, author Paul Williams finds in “Fighting for Peace in Somalia: A History and Analysis of Amisom, 2007-2017.”

A woman arrives to vote at a Polling Station in Hale, Britain, May 2, 2019. REUTERS/Phil Noble English voters are expected to use local government elections on Thursday to punish Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party over its failure to deliver Brexit, revealing a divided and dissatisfied electorate. More than 8,000 seats on English councils