Somalia President receives warm welcome in Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa, The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, HE Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and his delegation arrived in Addis Ababa, where he welcomed the Prime Minister of Ethiopia. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed is holding talks with the Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed today. The two parties are committed to strengthening relations between the two countries

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Somali President Mohamed is visiting Addis Ababa

Somalia Federal Government president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed is visiting Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Tuesday, March 5, 2019, reported state media . He will be meeting with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed today, to discuss matters related to bilateral and regional issues, according to state media which cited the ministry of Foreign Affairs sources. The source

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Ilhan Omar isn’t naive, she’s prejudiced

Photo Spiked Online Another week, another anti-Semitic outburst. So it goes for Ilhan Omar, the first-ever Somali-American elected to congress. Can we stop saying she is ‘naïve’, that she has ‘misunderstandings’ about Jewish people, that she is just ‘not educated’ about the role of anti-Semitism in history? Because after her latest remarks over the weekend,

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Minister: Egypt ready to transfer security expertise to Somalia

Egypt’s interior minister said his country is prepared to offer its security expertise to the Somalia in the framework of deepening cooperation between the two countries and facing mutual threats. This came during a meeting between Egyptian Interior Minister Mahmoud Tawfiq, Somali Interior Security Minister Mohamed Abukar Islow Duale and an accompanying delegation held in

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Qatar participates in Arab League Council Delegates meetings

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

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Egypt releases prominent photojournalist after 5-year term

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

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Helicopter crash kills four Americans and their pilot in Kenya

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

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Somali President visited those who are injured by terror attacks in Mogadishu.

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

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Canadian forces train Lebanese Armed Forces in winter warfare

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 –

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UK’s Hunt says Yemen peace process ‘could be dead within weeks’

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

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