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Records Of Thousands Of Doctors To Be Reviewed After Fake Psychiatrist Practiced For 23 Years

Zholia Alemi, 56, was convicted of fraud and theft offences at Carlisle Crown Court last month.Thousands of NHS doctors are to have their records reviewed after a woman with fake qualifications was found to be working as a consultant psychiatrist for 23 years. Zholia Alemi, 56, was jailed for five years in October after she

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How Kenyan police let in Somalia’s Shabaab bombers

Police officers at the Kenya-Somalia border let in five Al-Shabaab suicide bombers in February this year after receiving bribes, a new United Nations report says. The report lays bare how Kenyan security forces routinely accept cash bribes from as low as Ksh2,000 ($20) from terror militants to wave them through. The Somalia Report 2018, released

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Mogadishu Flights Delayed As Fire Guts Down Aden Abdulle Airport Restaurant

Mogadishu-Hundreds of travellers remained stranded at Mogadishu’s Aden Abdulle Airport after an inferno forced flights to be delayed. The fire gutted down a section of a restaurant within the Airport that serves travellers. Firefighters arrived at the scene to put out the inferno that had threatened to spread to other parts of the airport. A

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Somali security forces conduct search operations in Mogadishu

Somali police officers have been conducting search operations overnight in Mogadishu, where over the last few days the killings. The forces have explored the KM13 and Garasbeley camps in Mogadishu and searched every house. Residents say the troops were searching a house, asking questions. Some reports indicate that the operation was carried out by different

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Somali President orders army commanders to complete a comprehensive report on the security and bombings Friday

The President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, has called on the Force Commander to come up with a complete report on the security and the recent explosions that occurred on Friday. Dead rises 60 innocent people, Commander-in-Chief of the National Constituent Assembly, Chief of the Army Major General Dahir

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Suicide car bombers kill at least 17 near hotel in Somali capital city

Suicide attackers set off two car bombs at a hotel near the headquarters of Somalia’s Criminal Investigations Department in Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least 17 people, police said.Guards at Hotel Sahafi and CID officers opened fire after the blasts, police added. Then, about 20 minutes later, a third explosion hit the busy street, witnesses

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Somali regional South West State governor resigns,

Somalia’s South west State governor has resigned and pulled out his governor’s race Wednesday, just days before the region holds the much-awaited election slated to take place by Nov. 17, officials said. Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden, who had been in power since 2014 has announced his resignation in Baidoa, the regional state’s administrative capital. His

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UN Calls for Consensus on Credible and Peaceful Governors Election in Somalia’s South West State

The events unfolding in the last few days, including the divisions among the stakeholders, ahead of the upcoming Governors election in Somalia’s South West State has the potential to lead to violence. The United Nations Mission in Somalia calls on all parties and stakeholders to work together to ensure that these Somali-owned electoral process proceeds

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South west election Chief resigns, made allegations against former Al-Shabab leader

The chairman of Somalia’s South west state election commission has resigned Monday made allegations of “blatant and unabashed’ attempts by some candidates to manipulate the outcome of the forth coming governor elections in the region, officials say. Afro Ibrahim, who had held the post of the regional state’s election commission for months and has been

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One of the ministers of prime minister of Khaire resigned

Mogadishu-The Energy and water minister of Somalia Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed has announced his resignation from the government of Somalia. He said he had resigned as minister after the conditions of the Governor candidates in South West State Election were supposed to resign if he had another position. “Following the demands of the South West Election

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