The United States military said Thursday it has killed 24 al-Shabab extremists with an airstrike in Somalia, one of its deadliest in months. The airstrike was carried out on Wednesday near an extremist camp near Shebeeley in the central Hiran region north of the capital, Mogadishu, the U.S. Africa Command said in a statement. It

Britain’s carmakers issued a stark assessment Thursday about Brexit’s impact on the industry, warning Thursday that two-thirds of the country’s global trade is at risk if the U.K. leaves the European Union without an agreement on future trade. Investment in the industry fell 46 percent last year and new car production dropped 9.1 percent to

President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire, welcomed top UN official Rosemary DiCarlo for talks, some four weeks after the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) took the decision to expel the UN’s most senior representative in the country, Nichoas Haysom, declaring him persona non grata. The Government accused the veteran South African

A bipartisan group of lawmakers from both chambers of Congress reintroduced legislation Wednesday that could halt U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. The war powers resolution already passed the Senate in December but failed to gain traction in the then-Republican-controlled House, which has since changed hands. It is not only a challenge to

The Saudi-led coalition is prepared to use “calibrated force” to push the Iranian-aligned Houthi movement to withdraw from Yemen’s Hodeidah port city under a U.N.-sponsored deal, a senior United Arab Emirates official said on Wednesday. Yemen’s warring parties have failed to pull troops from the country’s main port under a month-old truce, reviving the threat

A team of former U.S. government intelligence operatives working for the United Arab Emirates hacked into the iPhones of activists, diplomats and rival foreign leaders with the help of a sophisticated spying tool called Karma, in a campaign that shows how potent cyber-weapons are proliferating beyond the world’s superpowers and into the hands of smaller

Kenya and Somalia yesterday discussed how to strengthen their economies and step up the fight against terrorism.Top government officials, including Foreign Affairs CS Monica Juma and her Somali counterpart Ahmed Awad, resolved to engage each other on trade, security, and cultural and socioeconomic matters. The officials, who met in Mandera, said they would cooperate in

Photo Reuters British Prime Minister Theresa May was on a collision course with the European Union on Wednesday after lawmakers demanded she renegotiate a Brexit divorce deal that the other members of the bloc said they would not reopen. Less than two months before the United Kingdom is due by law to leave the EU,

The U.N. migration agency says 28 bodies have been found after some 130 migrants went missing off Djibouti when two boats capsized. A statement says the coast guard in the tiny East African nation continues a search and rescue operation after Tuesday’s accident. Witnesses said large waves caused the overloaded boats to tip over about

Mogadishu, A British man being detained in a Somali jail has survived an attack by inmates armed with razor blades, authorities have said. Anthony Thomas Cox, who works for a private security firm was arrested ten days ago at the main airport in the capital Mogadishu with tear gas canisters in his suitcase. A Prison