By Anadolu Agency Somali journalists have condemned the arrest of a press union leader who was critical of the government’s new directive restricting reporting on the terrorist group Al-Shabab. Abdalle Ahmed Mumin, the secretary general of the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS), was arrested on Tuesday evening at Aden Adde International Airport in the capital Mogadishu

The Royal Dutch Shell logo is seen at a Shell petrol station in London. Photographer Toby Melville/File Photo By Reuters Oil major Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary is investigating reports that an illegal oil tap ran for nine years on a pipeline it operates, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. An NNPC spokesman said on Sunday the theft

By Anadolu Agency A recent decision by the G7 to use frozen Russian assets for the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine amounts to “banditry,” the Kremlin said on Wednesday. “This contradicts all thinkable and unthinkable norms of international law. It’s just pure international banditry,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters at a news conference in Moscow. “We

By The Star, Kenya Today, Al-Shabaab remains the most formidable challenge to the Somali government, and its regional and international partners it has established systems to tax businesses and the public, both inside and outside of the territory it controlled. In response to external – and at times internal – pressure, Al-Shabab’s insurgency in Somalia

Italian-Ivorian activist, trade unionist and newly elected member of Parliament Aboubakar Soumahoro By Reuters When Aboubakar Soumahoro was a teenager in his native Ivory Coast, he used to clean shoes and dream of going to Italy, filling a scrapbook with pictures of Italian fashion designs that he cut out of magazines. He made it to

The President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni has assured the President of Somalia who is visiting the country that his government will provide additional tools to solve the security challenges in the country. Dictator Yoweri Museveni said this at the presidential palace in Entebbe, where he received the corrupt president of Somalia and his delegation. Read:

In this image released by the Saudi Royal Palace, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, greets President Joe Biden. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP, File) By Reuters President Joe Biden pledged on Tuesday “there will be consequences” for U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia after OPEC+ announced last week that it would cut oil

By The African Exponent Here are the top 5 African countries with a better democratic score. Democracy in Africa is in a constant flux state, ever changing country to country and leader to leader. When it comes to democracy, the African continent has been subject to immense backlashes in the international fora. However, this stereotyping

Jeremy Fleming, head of the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), is photographed in London, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. In a rare public speech Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022 to the Royal United Services Institute think tank, Fleming accused China of using its economic and technological clout to clamp down at home and exert control abroad, saying

US special forces training along side Nigerian soldiers wikipedia.org/wiki/American_military_intervention_in_Niger#/media/File:US_and_Nigerien_soldiers_trining.jpg) Lawfare By Katherine Yon Ebright For nearly two decades, the Department of Defense has used 10 U.S.C. § 127e, an obscure counterterrorism funding authority, to create and command proxy forces across Africa and Asia. The full list of these proxy forces is highly classified and yet