Photo: Credit Reuters Days before the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the Islamic world is grappling with an untimely paradox of the new coronavirus pandemic: enforced separation at a time when socialising is almost sacred. The holiest month in the Islamic calendar is one of family and togetherness – community, reflection, charity and prayer.

Photo: Credit Daily Nation The CS said this when he announced that the total number of coronavirus cases in Kenya had clocked 262 out of which 12 were deaths and 60 recoveries.”There are models that say that we could lose up to 28,000 Kenyans as a result of this disease,” said Kagwe who insited on

Photo: Credit Reuters By: Michael Horton Arms trafficking via the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea has a long history. However, the wars in Yemen and the vast number of arms and materiel provided by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have ushered in a golden age for regional arms traffickers. The

Former al-Shabaab commander and current Somali spy chief Fahad Yasin A senior official is the main contact person and is in constant communication with the militant group Report says top Shabaab and NISA leaders are in contact to derail the ongoing peace processes and target Kenyan forces in Somalia. Other NISA officials and their agents

Princess Basmah Bint Saud speaking at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC on 12 April 2017 (AFP) Princess Basmah says she is being detained without explanation or charges, and her health is deteriorating A Saudi princess, who has been missing for over a year, has spoken out publicly for the first time, pleading with

By Vanda Felbab-Brown For the past three decades, militia groups have been a defining feature of Somalia’s conflict landscape. Communities create or join such groups to respond to conditions of insecurity and vulnerability. Somali powerbrokers, sub-federal authorities, the national government, and external interveners also turn to armed groups as a tool for pursuing their own

Turkey’s parliament passed legislation on Thursday allowing the sovereign wealth fund to take over companies in distress. The Turkiye Wealth Fund, chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, will be able to inject cash or acquire controlling stakes in firms considered to be of strategic importance, according to the new law, state-run Anadolu news agency reported.

Executive order will not initially include civil penalties but that could change, Andrew Cuomo warns New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday he is ordering all residents to wear masks when they are unable to maintain social distancing in public as the hard-hit state moves to a “new normal” in the coronavirus pandemic. Cuomo’s executive

Helsinki city councillor Suldaan Said Ahmed Image: Mårten Lampén / Yle Left Alliance councillor notes that Somali-background residents often work in low-paying jobs and live in close quarters. Helsinki city councillor Suldaan Said Ahmed says a major increase in Covid-19 cases in the Somali community is in part the result of class differences in Finland.

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz reading documents at the royal palace in the capital Riyadh on 8 March 2020 (AFP) Saudi Arabia has carried out the 800th execution of King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s five years of rule, human rights organisation Reprieve said on Tuesday. According to the British nonprofit, which campaigns against the death penalty,