Adis Ababa ,The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, HE Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and the today attended a ceremony marking the 50th Anniversary of the establishment of the African Union Mission in Somalia.African Union Summit, which opens tomorrow in the catalysing presented as a lasting solution to the problem of refugees and international and

Mogadishu, Somalia’s Joint Police Program (JPP) received a funding boost of 8 million Euros yesterday, under a partnership between Germany and the United Nations in Somalia. Implemented by the Federal Government of Somalia in close cooperation with the Federal Member States, the UN and other international partners, the JPP is currently underway in the Federal

Kampala, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, President Yoweri Museveni’s son, has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General, the second highest army rank in Uganda. Lt-Gen Kainerugaba is among more than 2,000 military officers who were promoted, according to the list released by the UPDF on Friday. The 44-year-old First Son moved up to the rank of

Photo Reuters The United States is holding direct communications with members of Venezuela’s military urging them to abandon President Nicolas Maduro and is also preparing new sanctions aimed at increasing pressure on him, a senior White House official said. The Trump administration expects further military defections from Maduro’s side, the official told Reuters in an

A Kenyan court has freed a New Zealander held in police custody for several days on suspicion of links with extremism. Sulub Warfaa, 36, spoke to journalists outside the court in Garissa, in northwestern Kenya.”Just because I was born in Mogadishu does not mean that I am a terrorist,” he said. “I did not get

Photo (AP) The older sister of the king of Thailand said Friday she will run for prime minister in elections next month, upending the palace’s decades-long tradition of eschewing politics and setting up a surprise contest with the leading military-backed candidate. Princess Ubolratana Mahidol’s nomination by the opposition Thai Raksa Chart Party marks a shock

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce a decision on Friday whether Saudi Arabia’s crown prince was responsible for the death of a Saudi journalist killed in Istanbul. In a letter addressed to Trump on Oct. 10, 2018, prominent senators Republican Bob Corker and Democrat Bob Menendez asked for an investigation into the killing

Somalia’s petroleum ministry is being accused of attempting to illegally auction off the country’s oil blocks, the upper house of parliament has noted. The petroleum minister, Abdirashid Mohamed Ahmed, who denies that any bidding will take place is due to attend an event in London on Thursday where he says the results of seismic surveys

Iran appears to have attempted a second satellite launch despite U.S. criticism that its space program helps the country develop ballistic missiles, satellite images released Thursday suggest. Iran did not immediately acknowledge conducting such a launch. Images released by the Colorado-based company DigitalGlobe show a rocket at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran’s Semnan

Photo Reuters Indonesian police found 193 Bangladeshis locked up in a shop house after human traffickers had lured them with the promise of getting them to Malaysia, an immigration official said on Thursday. The men entered Indonesia as tourists via Bali and the city of Yogyakarta with the intention of going to Malaysia for work,