By Xinhua News Agency, China’s permanent representative to the UN Zhang Jun on Monday called for continued international support for Somalia’s efforts to achieve political stability, security transition, and economic and social reconstruction. The attention and support of the UN and the international community for Somalia must not waver, as 2024 is critical for the

File Photo/Somali Times By Elham Ishmael Catriona Laing’s comments at the UNSC were a clear violation of the impartiality of UNSRSG and are an affront to the people and government of Somalia. She diminished the actions of Ethiopia and their attempts to annex parts of Somalia by saying “Ethiopia and Somaliland announced an MOU which

By Anadolu Agency Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva recalled his country’s ambassador to Israel on Monday, hours after Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz declared Lula persona non grata in the country as tensions between the two countries continued to mount. Foreign ​​​​​​​Minister Mauro Vieira called the Brazilian ambassador in Tel Aviv, Frederico Meyer,

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan with her Kenyan counterpart William Ruto in Dar es Salaam By Business Daily Africa Kenya’s imports from Tanzania fell by Sh10.23 billion last year on the back of renewed trade barriers, which largely hit the flow of grains from the agriculturally endowed country, official trade numbers show. Traders trucked in

File Photo Somali Times/Psychopath Ethiopia PM Abiy Ahmed Abiy Ahmed’s administration, along with the exploitation of the Union’s headquarters to gain political leverage against other member states, emphasizes the ethical obligation of each member state to confront this unruly behaviour. This situation also highlights the critical need to move the HQ to an African country

By The East African Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan have supported Kenya’s move to offer end-to-end logistics services, even as clearing and forwarding agents protested the move that potentially locks them out of business. In the latest efforts to make Northern Corridor more efficient and serve landlocked countries to compete with Dar es Salaam port,

File Photo/Somali Times By Xinhua News Agency The 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) has called for augmenting Africa’s voice on the global stage, supported by structural reforms to address inequalities in the current international system. The two-day meeting, which opened Saturday and

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, center, arrives for the Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. The 60th Munich Security Conference (MSC) is taking place from Feb. 16 to Feb. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) The Associated Press By Jill Lawless Foreign Secretary David Cameron will visit

German right-wing conservative group Werteunion (Values Union) Chairman Hans-Georg Maassen, attends a press conference, after attending a meeting to found a “conservative-liberal” party, in Remagen, Germany February 17, 2024. Photographer Jana Rodenbusch By Reuters A former German spy chief who was sacked after being accused of averting his eyes to the threat posed by the

Photo/Somali Times The Federal Government of Somalia said Ethiopia made a “provocative attempt” to disrupt the Somalia President’s delegation to the African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa. Read: Why is Somalia an unfortunate country? A press release issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Government of Somalia strongly condemned