FILE – In this Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018 file photo, Britain’s Defence Minister Gavin Williamson stands in the main chamber during a gathering of NATO defence ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels. British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson has been fired Wednesday, May 1, 2019 after an investigation into leaks from a secret government meeting about

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves Southwark Crown Court after being sentenced in London, Britain, May 1, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison by a British court on Wednesday for skipping bail when he holed up in Ecuador’s London embassy for seven years until police dragged him out

Mogadishu, Somali Armed Forces on Wednesday morning captured the strategic town of Barire in Lower Shabelle. During the 7:30am operation, the brave Somali forces successfully liberated the town from the terrorist group, ending their ruthless control of the town. Barire is a key town and its liberation serves as a big blow to the terrorist

The renaming of the airport in honour of Sayid Mohamed was greeted with joy by many Somalis on social media who hailed Sayid Mohamed as a revolutionary. Kismayo Airport will from now henceforth be known as Sayid Mohamed Abdille Hassan International Airport in honour of Somalia’s hero by the same name. The airport is an

Elizabeth White The United Nations can sometimes be a figure of fun for its breathless commitment to the dullest of minutia, but spare a thought for the members of the UN Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group (SEMG) as they solemnly submit hundreds of pages of reporting each year on the illicit Somali charcoal trade. Charcoal

Photo (AP) People’s 2018 Sexiest Man Alive is off the market – Idris Elba is married! The actor, 46, married model Sabrina Dhowre on Friday during a three-day ceremony in Morocco, according to British Vogue, who exclusively covered their wedding for the magazine’s July 2019 issue. The magazine reports the couple exchanged vows at the

Garowe, Former Puntland Governor Abdirahman Mohamed Farole, the Senator of the Upper House of the Federal Republic of Somalia, first addressed the Federal and Puntland Conflicts, calling for a variety of allegations against the official Somali government. The former Puntland governor, Mr Abdirahman Mohamed Farole forget the crime he committed while he is in office

A pregnant asylum seeker has won the first step in her battle to remain in Britain She had been trying to live on £10 a week after the Home Office said it was ‘safe’ for her to return to Somalia, despite her fears it would be a death sentence A heavily pregnant woman who feared

Who will Kenya back in the elections in the Somali federal state of Jubbaland this August? The Foreign Affairs Ministry says Kenya’s policy remains “to work with Mogadishu and ensure the stability of Somalia”. Foreign Affairs PS Macharia Kamau told the Nation that Kenya worked with Jubbaland President Sheikh Islam Madobe, then as leader of

Two Canadian women detained in Somaliland since January have been freed, according to sources. Maymona Abdi, 28, and Karima Watts, 23, were arrested more than three months ago in Hargeisa, the most populous city in the self-declared state in the Horn of Africa. They had faced the prospect of 40 lashes each as part of