The State of Qatar participated on Monday in the 151st Session of the Council of the Arab League at the level of Permanent Delegates under the chairmanship of Somalia as a successor to Sudan, at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Arab League. HE Qatar’s Permanent Representative to the Arab League Ambassador Ibrahim

Photo (AP) A prominent Egyptian photojournalist was released after five years in prison and returned home Monday to hugs from family and friends, pledging to continue working despite severe restrictions imposed on his movements, including having to spend the nights at a police station nearby. Mahmoud Abu Zaid, popularly known as “Shawkan,” was convicted of

Four Americans and their Kenyan pilot were killed when their helicopter crashed shortly after taking off from a remote island in Lake Turkana in a national park in northwest Kenya, officials said on Monday. The aircraft came down in Central Island National Park at around 8 p.m. on Sunday, Kenya’s National Police Service said on

Mogadishu, Somali Times The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, HE Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, visited the Madina Hospital this morning to review the medical situation of victims injured in the terror attacks in Mogadishu. When he arrived at the hospital, he was briefed by the Director of Hospital Dr Mohamed Yusuf told the medical

Picture credit: Canada’s Joint Task Force – Impact’s Canadian Training Assistance Team in Lebanon (CTAT-L) Facebook page. (photo credit: CANADIAN ARMED FORCES IN LEBANON) Canada’s Armed Forces are in Lebanon training troops in basic winter warfare which will allow them to better protect their borders, read a Facebook post by Canada’s Joint Task Force –

British Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, talks to reporters upon his arrival at Aden airport in Aden, Yemen March 3, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Sunday that a peace process in Yemen’s main port city “could be dead within weeks” without more committed effort from both sides. The agreement to implement a

Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta arrived on separate flights in Asmara, Eritrea today. The two leaders were accorded warm welcome on arrival by President Isaias Afewerki at Asmara International Airport. The three leaders will discuss timely regional issues in a Tripartite Summit today while bilateral matters will also feature

At least 29 people were killed in an attack by armed bandits in Nigeria’s northwest Zamfara state, police said in a statement released on Saturday. Victims were ambushed on Thursday night as they were on their way back from a market in Shinkafi district of Zamfara, said Mohamed Shehu, police spokesman for Zamfara which is

Since Siad Barre’s government was overthrown in 1991, Somalia has experienced a harsh situation and suffered from long civil war as conflict between various armed factions began struggling for raising their influence. So malis never gave up hopes despite measurable situation to pull out their country out of devastation and chaos and great progress has

Photo (AP) The Latest on Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is making a second run for the Democratic presidential nomination (all times local): 12:20 p.m. Bernie Sanders is launching his second presidential campaign with a call for Americans from all walks of life to join his fight for a political revolution, one he’s been waging