File Photo/Somali Times Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the UN described corruption as ‘insidious plague’ that has a wide range of corrosive effects on societies, it diverts funds intended for development, undermines the ability of governments to provide basic services, feeds inequalities and injustice, and discourages foreign aid investment. According to Transparency International, Somalia

Sudanese army soldiers posing for a picture at the Rapid Support Forces base in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan on April 16, 2023/AFP By The East African Sudan’s conflict, which is now in its second month, is raising worries among neighbours that lawlessness there will be exported in the form of illegal small

Somalia Ministers of Foreign Affairs said that Russia has promised to help Somalia’s armed forces in their fight against Al-Shabab. The diplomats, who asked not to be named because they were not allowed to talk to reporters, said that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made the request during a conversation with his Somali counterpart, Abshir

By Anadolu Agency Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that Russia has started moving tactical nuclear weapons to his country. “We had to prepare storage areas and stuff. We have done this, so the movement of nuclear weapons has already begun,” Lukashenko told Russia’s Pervy TV. Lukashenko, who was on a trip to Moscow, said some

Kenya’s State Department for Interior and National Administration Principal Secretary Raymond Omollo By The East African Kenya has refuted claims of being hacked by the Chinese following a Reuters expose that claimed the attacks targeted Kenyan government departments for a period of three years. In a statement released on Thursday evening by Interior Permanent Secretary

In this picture released by the Iranian Defense Ministry on Thursday, May 25, 2023, Khorramshahr-4 missile is launched at an undisclosed location, Iran. Iran unveiled on Thursday what it dubbed the latest iteration of its liquid-fueled Khorramshahr ballistic missile amid wider tensions with the West over its nuclear program. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP) By

A photograph appears on the internet The new British Ambassador to Somalia Amb Mike Nithavrianakis and the warlord Hargeisa administration SNM militia leader Muse Bihi Abdi discussed the war in Las Anod and the elections. The meeting between the ambassador and the warlord Bihi telling dishonest to the ambassador Hargeisa administration is committed to a

By Anadolu Agency Despite the wave of diplomacy sweeping the region with the rapprochement between Iran and some of its neighboring countries, the dark clouds of a long-running territorial dispute between Tehran and Abu Dhabi over three Persian Gulf islands continue to hover overhead. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani in a strongly-worded statement Saturday,

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman shakes hands with Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad ahead of the Arab League Summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 19, 2023. Bandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout via Reuters By Reuters Once labelled a pariah, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman took centre stage as master of ceremonies last

Credit Photo to Facebook Journalist Bushaaro Ali Mohamed and stop detaining members of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday. On the evening of May 15, Hargeisa adminstrtion arrested Bushaaro shortly after she entered the border town of Wajale from Ethiopia, according to media reports, multiple statements by rights groups, and Mubarik Mohamoud