The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, H.E. Amb. Ahmed Isse Awad delivered a speech at a meeting of the 46th Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the OIC Member States, which opened on Friday in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi. In his speech, the minister stressed that Somalia is forever grateful

Photo (AP) Add a century of career titles to Roger Federer’s staggering list of tennis achievements. The 20-time Grand Slam champion became the second male player to win 100 tour-level tournaments in the professional era when he beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-4 in the final of the Dubai Championships on Saturday. Jimmy Connors is the

Photo Reuters The Canadian government, as expected, on Friday approved extradition proceedings against the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, prompting a furious reaction from China. Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei’s founder, was detained in Vancouver last December and is under house arrest. In late January the U.S. Justice Department charged Meng

Heart failure is a disease that affects millions of people worldwide. Research led by a team at Imperial College London and the Medical Research Council is trying to use computers to predict the disease. Using a computer program called 4Dsurvival, they analyzed scans from people with pulmonary hypertension. By tracking the motion of the heart

China welcomes the U.S. decision of suspending the tariff hike of goods imported from China, said the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council on Saturday. The Chinese tariff authority said it accepted the statement from U.S. Trade Representative Office, which states that Chinese goods that have been subject to tariffs since September 2018 will

The last three weeks have witnessed a strange diplomatic spat between Kenya and Somalia. The Kenyan government summoned back its ambassador from Mogadishu and kicked out the Somali ambassador, claiming that Somali leadership had attempted to sell off parts of Kenyan territory. The two neighbours have been locked in a dispute over their maritime boundary,

Early education based on a child’s mother tongue gives them a head start in their literacy and language learning. /THE CONVERSATION Kenya is a multilingual country with over 42 different indigenous languages. In addition, foreign languages are used by minorities in major towns and in some learning institutions. The most dominant foreign language is English

The United States military on Friday said it had killed 26 fighters with the al-Shabab extremist group with an airstrike in central Somalia, after a pair of strikes earlier this week killed 55. The U.S. has carried out 24 such strikes this year, more than half the number in all of 2018. Several have had

Mount Kenya Trust, MKT, has launched an appeal for funds to help arrest spreading fires on the slopes of the famed Mount Kenya. The trust, an organization dedicated to helping preserve and protect Mount Kenya on Wednesday started a fund raiser within and outside of Kenya seeking help douse the raging fires. The fires, it

Gunfire continued midday Friday in Somalia’s capital as security forces fought with al-Shabab extremists holed up in a building hours after a car bombing in Mogadishu left at least 18 dead, with the toll expected to climb. Police Capt. Mohamed Hussein told The Associated Press that at least 40 others were injured in the complex