Bosaso-The new MPs of the House of Representatives has today welcomed the speeches of the candidates for the Governors of Puntland. The 21-man Governors candidate of the 11 other candidates, who are also running for deputy Governors post,will be held tomorrow on Tuesday, January 8, 2019, today will present their speeches and promises to the

Mogadishu-The two al-Shabaab assassins were convicted for the murder of a traditional elder in Mogadishu. The assassins identified as Ali Hassan 25, and Abdirahman Ali 22 were reportedly caught red-handed by the police after they killed elder Hilowle Heefow Hussein. Judges of the Somali military court said Ali and Hassan, who are members of the

This undated photo provided by the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office shows Wayne Rooney. Soccer star Rooney was arrested last month at a Washington-area airport on a charge of public intoxication. The Loudon County Sheriff’s Office said Rooney was booked into jail on Dec. 16, 2018, after his arrest by airport police. Dulles International Airport is

A slaughterhouse in Brussels in 2017. Belgium will no longer grant religious exemptions to European Union laws that require animals to be rendered insensible before slaughtering.CreditCreditYves Herman/Reuters BRUSSELS — A Belgian ban on the Muslim and Jewish ways of ritually slaughtering animals went into effect on New Year’s Day, part of a clash across Europe

Bosaso-Governor candidate for Puntland governor’s election 8, Jan 2019, Mohamud Khalif, Hassan Jebiye, He has been away from the country for 35 years and now he wants to be been elected as a new governor Puntland region, Somali Times investigated Mr Hassan in the past. The candidate Governor Mohamud Khalif, Hassan Jebiye, used to own,

The Puntland region has informed members of the federal government of Somalia that they have not been able to fly from the airport in Mogadishu for a few hours. Some of the initiatives undertaken by the Puntland authorities to end the hostilities have ended. The ban is limited to the Council of Ministers and its

The U.N. Security Council is expressing regret at Somalia’s decision to expel a U.N. envoy who questioned the arrest of an extremist group defector-turned-political candidate. The council issued a statement Saturday, a day after a closed-door discussion about Somalia’s move to kick Nicholas Haysom out.The statement conveys gratitude to the longtime U.N. official. It also

Photo (AP) Venezuela’s opposition-controlled congress opened its first session of the year Saturday, installing a fresh-faced leader who struck a defiant tone and vowed to take up the battle against socialist President Nicolas Maduro. Juan Guaido, 35, assumes the presidency of a National Assembly stripped of power by Maduro, whose government is blamed for leading

Journalists film a 278kg bluefin tuna, priced with a 333,600,000 yen bid is pictured in front of sushi restaurants Sushi Zanmai in Tokyo, Japan, January 5, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon The owner of a Japanese sushi restaurant chain on Saturday set a record by paying more than $3 million(2.36 million pounds) for a bluefin tuna in

The Pentagon plans to curtail its military role in Somalia and lessen airstrikes against al-Shabaab militants in the region, NBC News reported Friday. Two senior U.S. officials told the outlet that the administration has assessed that al-Shabab does not pose a direct danger to the United States as American forces have killed many of the