South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit, centre, attends the IGAD summit in State House Entebbe, in Entebbe, Uganda, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) member states arrived in Uganda to discuss tension between Ethiopia, Somalia and fighting in Sudan. (AP Photo/Patrick Onen) By The Associated Press The African Union, European Union, and

By Anadolu Agency Yemen’s Houthi group said Thursday that they struck a US vessel in the Gulf of Aden. Speaking to Al-Masirah television, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the attack was in response to US and UK aggression against Yemen and also to aid the Palestinian people. Sarea said the assault was carried out

File Photo/Somali Times The Somalia government has said that there is no place to mediate the conflict between Ethiopia, unless Addis Ababa cancels the controversial agreement it entered into with the Hargeisa administration. Read: Somalia’s president warns the aggressor Ethiopia prime minister Abiy Ahmed “There will be no mediation until Ethiopia reverses the illegal agreement

The summit of the IGAD regional organization was concluded, and a press release was issued in support of Somalia. The leaders of IGAD have turned away from the violation of the territorial independence of Somalia by the Ethiopian government. This emergency summit will be the 42nd of the IGAD Regional Organization, it was held today

File Photo/Somali Times Addis Ababa has tested its maritime ambitions in Somalia earlier this month, with Muse Bihi signing a 20 KM off the coast of Lughaya area in Awdal region northern of Somalia. This issue has greatly damaged the relationship between the two countries. Mogadishu has started a strong diplomatic battle, and the meeting

By Anadolu Agency The US military confirmed Wednesday that Yemen’s Houthi group targeted a US-owned carrier ship in the Gulf of Aden with a drone. “At approximately 8:30 pm (Sanaa time) Jan. 17, an assessed one-way attack UAS (unmanned aircraft system) was launched from Houthi controlled areas in Yemen and struck M/V Genco Picardy in

The federal government of Somalia has today taken a serious step against Ethiopia as it recently banned the Ethiopian Airlines from Somalia, according to official sources told Somali Times. Reports say that the order was issued by the Somali Civil Aviation Authority based in Mogadishu, which turned back the plane that was carrying the Ethiopian

Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a ministerial statement titled “Defending the UK and our allies in a more dangerous world” in the House of Commons, in London, Britain January 15, 2024. UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/Handout via Reuters/File Photo By Reuters British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces a major parliamentary showdown on Wednesday over his plan

Mohammed Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, son of Somalia’s President, was convicted on Tuesday of causing a fatal traffic accident in Istanbul and sentenced to a fine, concluding a high-profile case that drew international attention. Mohamoud’s diplomatic car collided with a motorcycle courier, Yunus Emre Gocer, on a highway in Istanbul on November 30th. Gocer died six

By Anadolu Agency Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at positions of “terrorist groups” in Syria and Iraq late Monday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement. The IRGC said a “spy headquarters” and a “gathering of anti-Iran terrorist groups” in Syria were destroyed with ballistic missiles, as cited by state