A Photograph appear on the Internet The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Government of Somalia, Abdisaid Muse Ali, had a telephone conversation with the Minister for Africa in the United Kingdom, Ms. Vicky Ford. Somalia’s foreign minister said they had discussed the matter with Ms. Vicky Ford. Strengthening cooperation based on

Dominic Raab: ‘If it’s lying … it would normally, under the ministerial code and the governance around parliament, be a resigning matter.’ Photograph: Reuters The Guardian By Jessica Elgot Justice secretary says allegations that Boris Johnson lied about No 10 lockdown party are ‘nonsense’ Dominic Raab has admitted that lying to parliament is “normally” a

In this satellite image provided by Planet Labs PBC, white fire suppressing foam is seen after an attack on an Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. fuel depot in the Mussafah neighborhood of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. A drone attack claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeting a key oil facility in

File Photo/Somali Times Elections in African countries this year will be unlike many others as some of them are a response to coups, conflicts and other derailments of democratic processes in recent years, a report by the Africa Centre for Strategic Studies says. The East African reported. Libya, Somalia, Mali, Guinea and Chad are all

A general view of the Abu Dhabi skyline is seen, December 15, 2009. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah/File Photo By Reuters Three fuel trucks exploded, killing three people, and a fire broke out near Abu Dhabi airport on Monday in what Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said was an attack deep inside the United Arab Emirates. The Houthi movement,

By Anadolu Agency China is struggling with a declining population figures as new data released on Monday showed the national birth rate had fallen to a record low in 2021. The data released by China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed that the nationwide birth rate fell to as low as 7.52 births for every

A law enforcement vehicle is parked at a school in the area where a man believed to have taken people hostage at a synagogue during services that were being streamed live, in Colleyville, Texas, U.S. January 15, 2022. REUTERS/Shelby Tauber By Reuters A gunman who took four people hostage at a Dallas-area synagogue and was

By Anadolu Agency Six years after snapping their diplomatic ties, arch-foes Iran and Saudi Arabia are slowly moving toward rapprochement and preparing to reopen embassies, according to a senior Iranian lawmaker. Jalil Rahimi Jahanabadi, a member of the Iranian Parliament’s national security and foreign policy commission, in a Twitter post on Saturday, said the two

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson attends the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions at the parliament in London, Britain, January 12, 2022. UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/Handout via REUTERS Reuters By Guy Faulconbridge and Kylie Maclellan British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office apologised to Queen Elizabeth on Friday after it emerged that staff partied late into the night in

By Anadolu Agency People in Horn of Africa country say move to revive Italian language, influence makes no sense When Somalia’s state-run Radio Mogadishu began airing an Italian-language program earlier this month under a new agreement with Italy, it led to an uproar. Somalis both at home and abroad reacted with anger, calling it an