File – Members of the Maltese armed forces escort the catamaran carrying Pope Francis and leaving Valletta’s harbor for Gozo in Malta Saturday, April 2, 2022. Rescue groups are accusing the European Island nation of Malta of coordinating the return of around 500 people to Libya where they were subsequently imprisoned, in violation of international

By Anadolu Agency World leaders took to social media and public platforms to congratulate Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who won a historic reelection Sunday as the nation’s president. US President Joe Biden congratulated President Erdogan on his reelection, saying he looks forward to continuing to work together on bilateral issues and global challenges. Russian President

By Anadolu Agency Turkey’s 85 million-strong citizens are the winners in the national elections that concluded today, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, confident in his clear lead towards reelection. “All 85 million of our citizens are the winners of both the May 14 and May 28 elections,” Erdogan said in an address to

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