Photo: Credit Pinterest By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN A Maryland attorney has been indicted on charges he engaged in a scheme to fraudulently obtain more than $12.5 million in Somali government assets from financial institutions and was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by a law firm that kept more than $3 million of the money. A

Sudanese forces stand alert on the banks of the Tekeze River on the Sudan-Ethiopia border after Ethiopian forces blocked people from crossing into Sudan, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. The Sudanese forces, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the events, said people tried to cross from Ethiopia

Somali officials says the Kenya Government is interfering with elections in Somalia. The relationship between the Somali government and the Kenyan government has deteriorated over the past week. The Somali Times has learned from diplomatic sources that the government’s intentions are as follows: 1. Pressure on Kenya to suspend Somali opposition meetings in Kenya. 2:

BEIJING (AP) — China on Thursday accused critics in the U.S. government of “an escalation of political suppression” against Beijing following a report of new visa restrictions on members of China’s ruling Communist Party and their immediate family members. Foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said China would “make representations” to the U.S. following the report

France’s President Emmanuel Macron waits for Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez before a meeting at the Elysee Palace, Paris, July 15, 2020. (AP Photo) France will be inspecting 76 mosques in the coming days in a “massive and unprecedented” operation against separatism, the country’s interior minister said Wednesday, Anadolu reports. Gerald Darmanin said state services

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake was recorded in Turkey’s southeastern Siirt province on Thursday morning, according to the country’s disaster management agency. ”The tremor occurred at a depth of 14.02 kilometers (8.7 miles) in the Kurtalan district at 08:45 a.m. local time (0545GMT), the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said. No reports of casualties were

Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt have severed ties with Qatar [File photo] The current crisis between Qatar and the Gulf states could end “within 24 hours”, Saudi Arabia’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Abdullah Bin Yahya Al-Mouallimi, said yesterday. “If Qatar recedes from its previous stances, stops its support for terrorists, halts grants

File Photo – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) meets with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (R) during his official visit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on July 23, 2017. ( Kayhan Ozer – Anadolu Agency ) By Jonathan Fenton-Harvey With potential pressure from Washington on Riyadh, S.Arabia could change its bellicose foreign

The US Pentagon said Wagner had deployed 2,000 mercenaries in Libya to prop up Haftar’s attempt to take control of Tripoli (AFP) The United States has accused its ally the UAE of funding Russian mercenaries in Libya accused of human rights abuses and breaking an international arms embargo. In a rare rebuke of its ally,

Former Deputy Speaker of the Kenyan Parliament Farah Maalim has today for the first time addressed a outlet media interview with the crisis between the Somali government and Kenya, which has led to the expulsion of the ambassador from Nairobi by the federal government. Farah Maalim first acknowledged that the Kenyan government was blatantly interfering