Latest NewsWhy is Uber abandoning Africa’s biggest market after twelve years of operations?
Photo Credit: File By The African Exponent Global ride-hailing pioneer Uber officially ended its services across Nigeria, concluding a twelve-year run that began in Lagos back in 2014. Corporate
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By Kenyans The World Bank, through the International Finance Corporation (IFC), is undertaking an impact assessment of the Hustler Fund to establish how the credit programme has helped Kenyans.
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By The Associated Press The United Arab Emirates’ air force intercepted an Iranian drone over its territorial waters Monday, the Defense Ministry said, an attack that comes after the United
Read MoreSomalia’s economic fraud exposed-rising poverty and falling growth a fantasy budget
File Photo/Somali Times By MP Dr Abdillahi Hashi Abib Former Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire warned that Somalia was entering a dangerous economic downturn. The Ministers of Finance, Planning
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Why is Uber abandoning Africa’s biggest market after twelve years of operations?
Photo Credit: File By The African Exponent Global ride-hailing pioneer Uber officially ended its services across Nigeria, concluding a twelve-year run that began in Lagos back in 2014. Corporate
Read MoreGerman police report sabotage attack on power grid near Cologne
By Anadolu Agency An electric substation near Cologne was the target of a sabotage attack, police said Wednesday. “Based on the current state of the investigation, we do not believe this was a
Read MoreWorld Bank launches probe into Ruto’s multi-billion loan programme
By Kenyans The World Bank, through the International Finance Corporation (IFC), is undertaking an impact assessment of the Hustler Fund to establish how the credit programme has helped Kenyans.
Read MoreUAE says it intercepted an Iranian drone after weekend US strikes on rocket launchers in Iran
By The Associated Press The United Arab Emirates’ air force intercepted an Iranian drone over its territorial waters Monday, the Defense Ministry said, an attack that comes after the United
Read MoreSomalia’s economic fraud exposed-rising poverty and falling growth a fantasy budget
File Photo/Somali Times By MP Dr Abdillahi Hashi Abib Former Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire warned that Somalia was entering a dangerous economic downturn. The Ministers of Finance, Planning
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Featured ArticlesWhy is Uber abandoning Africa’s biggest market after twelve years of operations?
Photo Credit: File By The African Exponent Global ride-hailing pioneer Uber officially ended its services across Nigeria, concluding a twelve-year run that began in Lagos back in 2014. Corporate
Why is Uber abandoning Africa’s biggest market after twelve years of operations?
Photo Credit: File By The African Exponent Global ride-hailing pioneer Uber officially ended its services across Nigeria, concluding a twelve-year run that began in Lagos back in 2014. Corporate
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By Reuters Emirates airline said on Thursday it had rejected demands by London’s Heathrow Airport to cut capacity despite being threatened with legal action, and intended to continue
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Credit Photo AA By Reuters Hong Kong police arrested the bosses of a construction company on suspicion of manslaughter on Thursday over the city’s worst fire in nearly 80 years, which
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In face-off with London Heathrow, Emirates airline says it won’t cut capacity
By Reuters Emirates airline said on Thursday it had rejected demands by London’s Heathrow Airport to cut capacity despite being threatened with legal action, and intended to continue
Read MoreThe Minister Jamal Lobby boy says, ”Governor Deni is a presidential candidate, let him stay out of the election.”
Photo/Somali Times The Federal Government of Somalia’s Minister of Planning, Jamal Mohamed Hassan, has called on Puntland’s ”Governor Said Abdullahi Deni to step down in the
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Blog PostsPrinces William, Harry unveil Princess Diana’s statue
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Trump’s company braces for expected unveiling of criminal tax charges on Thursday
File – This file photo from Wednesday Jan. 11, 2017, shows President-elect Donald Trump, left, his chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, center, and his son Donald Trump Jr., right,
Over 1,100 unmarked graves found so far at Indigenous schools in Canada
By Barry Ellsworth Another 182 graves revealed at St. Eugene’s Mission in British Columbia As Canada prepares to commemorate its birth as a nation on July 1, it will be a bleak anniversary
Bill Cosby freed from prison, his sex conviction overturned
File – In this Sept. 24, 2018 file photo, Bill Cosby arrives for his sentencing hearing at the Montgomery County Courthouse, in Norristown, Pa. Pennsylvania’s highest court has overturned
Somali government, World Bank sign $445 million projects
Photo/Somali Times The Minister of Finance of the Federal Government of Somalia, Abdirahman Duale Beyle, met with Kristina Svenssn, Somalia’s Representative to the World Bank, at the
Crash in international tourism may cut $4T in global GDP
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Tigray forces seize regional capital, say Ethiopian-led troops are on the run
Credit Associated Press Photo Ben Curtis/Fighters loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) greet each other on the street in the town of Hawzen, then-controlled by the group, in
Thousands of EU citizens may lose legal status to live in UK
File – In this file photo dated Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, an anti-Brexit campaigner waves European Union and British Union flags outside Parliament in London. Millions of Europeans who have
Exclusive: Camera ‘switched to catch Matt Hancock’
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Suldaan Said Ahmed, first Somalia-born Finnish MP
Finnish politician and incoming Member of Parliament Suldaan Said Ahmed. Photo: Twitter/@suldaansaid. “I’m the first, but I’m certainly not the last,” he emphasized
Princes William, Harry unveil Princess Diana’s statue
Britain’s Prince William, left and Prince Harry unveil a statue they commissioned of their mother Princess Diana, on what woud have been her 60th birthday, in the Sunken Garden at
Trump’s company braces for expected unveiling of criminal tax charges on Thursday
File – This file photo from Wednesday Jan. 11, 2017, shows President-elect Donald Trump, left, his chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, center, and his son Donald Trump Jr., right,
Over 1,100 unmarked graves found so far at Indigenous schools in Canada
By Barry Ellsworth Another 182 graves revealed at St. Eugene’s Mission in British Columbia As Canada prepares to commemorate its birth as a nation on July 1, it will be a bleak anniversary
Bill Cosby freed from prison, his sex conviction overturned
File – In this Sept. 24, 2018 file photo, Bill Cosby arrives for his sentencing hearing at the Montgomery County Courthouse, in Norristown, Pa. Pennsylvania’s highest court has overturned
Somali government, World Bank sign $445 million projects
Photo/Somali Times The Minister of Finance of the Federal Government of Somalia, Abdirahman Duale Beyle, met with Kristina Svenssn, Somalia’s Representative to the World Bank, at the
Crash in international tourism may cut $4T in global GDP
File Photo/Somali Times Tourism unlikely to recover to pre-pandemic levels within next year or 2, UN body projects Pandemic’s blow to international tourism has cost the global economy more
Tigray forces seize regional capital, say Ethiopian-led troops are on the run
Credit Associated Press Photo Ben Curtis/Fighters loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) greet each other on the street in the town of Hawzen, then-controlled by the group, in
Thousands of EU citizens may lose legal status to live in UK
File – In this file photo dated Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, an anti-Brexit campaigner waves European Union and British Union flags outside Parliament in London. Millions of Europeans who have
Exclusive: Camera ‘switched to catch Matt Hancock’
An internal investigation is seeking to discover if the camera was moved accidentally / REUTERS By Joe Murphy CCTV ‘deliberately turned from balcony to door where minister kissed aide’ The
Suldaan Said Ahmed, first Somalia-born Finnish MP
Finnish politician and incoming Member of Parliament Suldaan Said Ahmed. Photo: Twitter/@suldaansaid. “I’m the first, but I’m certainly not the last,” he emphasized