The incident took place at the frontier between the Somali town Bulo Hawo and Kenya’s Mandera, close to where the border meets Ethiopia to the north Somali and Kenyan troops engaged in a minutes-long firefight on Saturday at the two countries’ shared border, local officials and witnesses said after the Kenyan side fired shots to

Elisabeth Dodds has settled status, but was turned down for a £50,000 bank loan. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The Guardian By Anna Tims Fears that shift from paper to digital permits could prevent those with settled status accessing jobs, banking and healthcare. Thousands of EU nationals could face problems accessing essential services because the government is refusing

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he wanted UK to have “leading, full-spectrum cyber power” Britain’s top cyber general said the UK could “degrade, disrupt, and even destroy” its enemies critical infrastructure in a future conflict, the Guardian reported Friday. Gen. Sir Patrick Sanders, the head of UK strategic command, was quoted by the newspaper as

Photo: Credit Islington Council By Calum Fraser Outgoing mayor delivered emotional speech before breaking off from Zoom call THE UK’s first Somali-born woman to become mayor has quit the Labour Party claiming “oppression” and “discriminatory behaviour”. Councillor Rakhia Ismail announced this morning that she had “resigned from the Labour Party” after she gave an emotional

Photo: Credit Reuters Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. REPRESENTATIVES of Islington’s close-knit Somali community have criticised Mayor of London Sadiq Khan in the wake of the killing of a teenager in Holloway, claiming people feel that he has “abandoned” them. Kamal Nuur, 18, was stabbed to death in Goodinge Close, off North Road, last week,

French soldiers patrol after four people have been wounded in a knife attack near the former offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, Friday Sept. 25, 2020 in Paris. A police official said officers are “actively hunting” for the perpetrators and have cordoned off the area including the former Charlie Hebdo offices after a suspect package

Photo: Credit Pinterest President Donald Trump and Rep. Ilhan Omar. By Emma Colton Rep. Ilhan Omar compared President Trump’s administration to Somalian dictatorships she witnessed growing up. “As a little girl, I witnessed what happens when you do not have a peaceful transfer of power,” the Minnesota Democrat tweeted Thursday. “It leads to instability, violence,

Officials in Kenya say three non-Muslim bus passengers were abducted by suspected Islamic extremists in Kenya’s northern Mandera county that borders Somalia. Armed gunmen, believed to be Somalia’s al-Shabab rebels, stopped a bus about 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Lafey town and ordered everyone out. The attackers picked three passengers from 54 on the bus

Photo: Credit Pinterest By Priyanka Motaparthy The U.S. military is seeking new authorities to expand its program of lethal drone strikes into Kenya, in order to target al-Shabab fighters in the region, the New York Times reported last week. The request reportedly comes in response to the January 5 al-Shabab attack on the Manda Bay

The UAE has long voiced interest in the F-35 jets and were promised a chance to buy them when agreeing to normalise ties with Israel (AFP/File photo) David Friedman told the Jerusalem Post that Israel’s military edge in the region is a ‘matter of law, not a matter of policy US Ambassador to Israel David