Mogadishu, Somali Times The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, HE Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who has been holding his constitutional mandate, officially opened the fifth session of the House of the People of the Federal Parliament of Somalia. The president’s speech in the opening session and pointed out that two years ago he signed

Photo (AP) The European Central Bank is ready to take further action to help the economy if the outlook takes a sudden turn for the worse, President Mario Draghi said Wednesday. Draghi told a conference that the bank would take “all the monetary policy actions that are necessary and proportionate” in addition to steps taken

Nairobi, The embassy in Kenya has said it will donate about $ 1 million to the fight against Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia. The embassy said in a statement that the money would be sent to the Somali government Fund for the Fight against terror attacks. The Government of Japan for five years in the past

Algeria’s army chief of staff Ahmed Gaed Salah has called for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to be declared unfit to hold rule the North African state. The move follows months of protests calling for the president to step down from his 20-year rule of the nation. In a televised broadcast on Tuesday, Lt Gen Gaed Salah

Photo Reuters Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “it’s not about the Benjamins” as he hit back on Tuesday against any suggestion that U.S. politicians are paid to support Israel. A tweet in February by Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar, a freshman legislator from Minnesota, was widely seen as echoing an anti-Semitic slur that Jews influence

Photo (AP) A bomb exploded in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, on Tuesday killing one person and wounding another. The blast from a bomb planted in a private luxury car exploded in Mogadishu’s Hodan district, killing the driver and injuring a nearby pedestrian, said police Col. Ahmed Abdi. There was no immediate claim for the bombing, the

Mogadishu, Somali Times President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has said the country faces external and internal enemies trying to destabilize Somalia. Speaking to Somali National Army officials on Monday, President Mohamed vowed that his government will deal harshly with mercenaries and mules working to topple the Somali government. “The country is facing internal and external enemies

Photo (AP) The Latest on migrants trying to get to Europe (all times local): 10:15 a.m. Spanish police say they have arrested 17 members of an alleged human trafficking network that threatened Moroccan migrants who sought a refund when attempts to reach Europe by sea failed. The National Police said Tuesday the busted cell operated

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel launched air strikes on the Palestinian enclave of Gaza and deployed extra troops to the border on Monday in response to the longest-range Hamas rocket attack to cause casualties in years. After a day of intense cross-border fighting, Palestinian officials said Egypt had mediated a ceasefire, though the frontier did not

The State Department’s inaction is enabling terrorist groups to expand there, a threat also to the remaining oases of security in the Horn of Africa. On December 13, 2018, national-security adviser John Bolton, in a speech at the Heritage Foundation, unveiled the Trump administration’s Africa strategy, key components of which were, first, advancing trade ties