ISTANBUL-Iran on Thursday dispatched two warships to the Gulf of Aden, where for the last week fighting has raged between the Yemeni army and Houthi rebels over Yemen’s Al-Hudaydah province. According to Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency, Iran has sent both a helicopter-carrier and a naval destroyer to the region.A highly strategic waterway, the Gulf

Kenya is perceived as one of the world’s most corrupt countries. It ranked 143 out of 180 countries on Transparency International’s 2017 corruption perception index. The only African countries that scored worse – among them Somalia, South Sudan, Libya, Eritrea, Burundi, and Zimbabwe – were either politically unstable or in conflict. This poor showing shouldn’t

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said foreign debt is becoming a burden to his country.We have reached a point where debt servicing has become very hard for the national economy,” Ahmed said in an annual performance report presentation to parliament according. to the prime minister, The country has taken $1.3 billion in loans during

Last month, two dozen Somali youths swarmed and attacked two Maine residents in a park in Lewiston, beating them with sticks while laughing, as video of the incident shows.One of the victims was hospitalized, but no charges were filed. Then, last Tuesday, a group of Somalis fired pellet guns at non-Somalis in the same park.

State Rep. Ilhan Omar won the DFL Party endorsement on Sunday in the crowded race to fill U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison’s seat in Congress.Omar, a first-term state lawmaker from Minneapolis who has quickly gained national media attention as the first Somali-American to serve in a state legislature, won the three-way endorsement contest after two rounds

Today, Finnish passports are issued to foreigners six times more often than in the 90s, and almost all new holders are dual citizens. This is more than in any given year since Finland’s independence, a development the leader of the right-wing Finns Party finds worrisome. Over the past two decades, the number of new citizens

Mogadishu-Somalia and Swedish Governments are working issues on general management of economics statistics, social statistics and dissemination of data based on the facts about Somalia as the country is going to establish National Statistics Agency soon. Minister of Planning, Investment and Economic Development of the Federal Government of Somalia, Mr jamal Mohamed Hassan held talks

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi  meet in Cairo on Sunday with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali to discuss regional issues namely Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam GERD which Ethiopia is building and Cairo fears its effects on its share of the Nile waters. Prime Minister Ahmed  arrive in Cairo in a two-day visit, during which he

Turkey – The Turkish government has begun training Somali police officers and officers for a period of time in Turkey for the training of various levels of military and law enforcement. More than 60 Somali officers trained the beginning of this year, with more than 60,000 Somali police officers and officers trained by soldiers from

Tunisia’s Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has sacked Minister of the Interior Lotfi Brahem, a statement by the government said on Wednesday.Mr Brahem will be replaced by Justice Minister Ghazi Jeribi who will act on an interim basis until a replacement is found, according to the statement. While no reason was given for the dismissal, Prime