By The East African The United States has offered a financial reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest of Maalim Ayman, the mastermind of the January 2020 Al Shabaab attack on the Manda Bay airbase in Kenya. The US Department of State said Washington was looking for anyone who could

File- This Oct. 17, 2019 frame grab from video provided by the Mexican government shows Ovidio Guzman Lopez at the moment of his detention, in Culiacan, Mexico. Mexican security forces were forced to release the son of Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman that day after his gunmen shot up the western city of

Kenya’s president William Ruto. Photographer Monicah Mwangi By Reuters Kenya will not default on its debt and plans to ramp up tax collection in the next two years, President William Ruto said on Wednesday. Ruto’s government, which took over in September, has pledged to curb expensive commercial borrowing in favour of cheaper sources like the

A Photograph appears on the Internet The Federal Government of Somalia has today signed a new agreement with the United Arab Emirates, and this agreement was signed by the Minister of Defense of Somalia, Mr. Abduqadir Mohamed Nur, according to outlet media reported. The corrupt minister who is currently on business in Abu Dubai said

File- In this image taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on May 28, 2022, a new Zircon hypersonic cruise missile is launched by the frigate named “Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov” of the Russian navy from the Barents Sea. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday Jan. 4,

File Photo/Somali Times LSE By Hanno Brankamp and Zoltán Glück Kenya’s refugee camps have long been depicted as hotbeds of “terrorism” leading to recurrent threats of camp closures and refugee expulsion. With the present drought in the Horn of Africa again pushing tens of thousands of people to seek refuge in Kenya, further securitisation of

By Anadolu Agency Russia said early on Wednesday that the main reason for the missile strikes by US-made HIMARS multiple rocket launchers on a deployment area near the city of Makiivka in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region was the mass use of mobile phones by military personnel despite a ban. “Currently, a commission is working to

A visitor takes a picture next to the Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem’s Old City January 3, 2023. Photographer Ammar Awad By Reuters The United Arab Emirates and China have asked the U.N. Security Council to meet

UPDF spokesperson Brig Gen Felix Kulayigye By Daily Monitor Uganda military is investigating circumstances under which one of its officers deployed in Mogadishu, Somalia, ran amok and shot three colleagues dead over an unidentified issue. The incident, according to military sources, happened Monday morning at the Mogadishu airport base, which is currently under the protection

A member of staff works on the production line at Jaguar Land Rover’s factory in Solihull, Britain, December 15, 2022. Photographer Phil Noble/File Photo By Reuters British manufacturers are starting 2023 on the back foot, after they reported one of their sharpest falls in activity since the 2008-09 recession last month, reflecting a sharp fall