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UNHCR_More than 4,800 Somali refugees have now returned home from Yemen since UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, commenced an Assisted Spontaneous Return (ASR) programme in 2017. In the latest departure, a boat carrying 114 Somali refugees left the Port of Aden on Monday and arrived at the Port of Berbera in Somalia today. With Yemen […]

Top finance moguls and political leaders are attending a Davos-style Saudi investment summit in contrast to last year when outrage over critic Jamal Khashoggi’s murder sparked a mass boycott. Organisers say 300 speakers from 30 countries, including US officials and heads of global banks and major sovereign wealth funds, will attend the annual summit that […]

LONDON_Britain looked set Today for a pre-Christmas election after the main opposition Labour party backed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s push for an early vote to try to overcome the lengthening political deadlock caused by Brexit. Conservative leader Johnson — overseeing a minority government — is trying to lead Britain out of the deep crisis engulfing […]

South Korea’s newly appointed Justice Minister Cho Kuk, mired in a corruption scandal involving his family, announced he is stepping down, after a little over a month in the position. Cho was officially appointed by South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Sept. 9 to lead the reform of the country’s prosecutors’ office. His appointment, amid […]

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has strongly condemned the attack on a mosque in northern Burkina Faso, which killed at least 15 worshipers, said his spokesman on Saturday. The attack took place in the village of Salmossi in the northern province of Oudalan on Friday evening, but was not reported until Saturday. The Secretary-General expressed his […]

At least eight people were killed when a house collapsed in northern India following heavy monsoon rain which has left more than 85 dead across South Asia, officials said on Monday. Floods and landslides caused by torrential downpours have killed at least 67 people across Nepal while 30 more are missing, police said. In overcrowded […]

  Uganda plans to repatriate the two patients with Ebola to Congo, saying they can get better treatment in specialized facilities there. Three more family members, who are so far healthy, will also be repatriated, a health ministry spokesman said. The family must consent to all repatriations, he said. “This epidemic is in a truly […]

Ciidanka amaanka Dalka Ghana ayaa soo badbaadiyay labo dumar ah Oo ka soo jeeda wadanka Canada kuwaa Oo horaantii bishan laga afduubtay gudaha dalkaasi. Howlgalka soo badbaadinta dumarka la afduubay ayaa dhacay Maanta Oo Arbaca ah, warbixin ay soo saartay dawladda ayaana lagu sheegatay in Maagaalada kumasi Oo ah Caasimada labaad ee Ugu weyn dalkaasi […]

Two Canadian women who were kidnapped in Ghana earlier this month have been rescued by security forces. The rescue operation took place in the early hours of Wednesday, the government said in a statement, in Kumasi, Ghana’s second city, which is about 200 kilometers northwest of the capital Accra. The women, aged 19 and 20, are […]

Afghan officials say there have been three explosions in the capital, Kabul, including a sticky bomb attached to a bus carrying university students that killed at least one person. Ferdus Faramarz, spokesman for the Kabul police chief, has confirmed that two other blasts were later heard from the same area, but couldn’t provide more details. […]

Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions. The 47-year-old was found guilty of breaching the Bail Act last month after his arrest at the Ecuadorian Embassy. He took refuge in the London embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, which […]

Turkish officials have denied reports that two Turkish nationals who were captured by forces loyal to renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar  in Libya are spies. Restaurant workers Mehmet Demir and Volkan Altinok were arrested by Haftar’s eastern-based forces in Tripoli’s southern Qasr bin Gashir district on April 12. They have since been sent to Grenada prison in […]

Kenya Airways launched direct flights to Somalia’s capital Mogadishu from Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. KQ’s Chief Executive, Sebastian Mikosz said, “I’m very happy that we started this route! I believe that we’ll quickly increase our presence in Mogadishu.”Mikosz observed that the new route will ease travel for thousands of Somalis who live in Kenya […]

Five adults at a desert compound in New Mexico have been arrested by the FBI weeks after a judge received death threats for granting them bail. The two men and three women, residents at a site where 11 starving children and the buried remains of a toddler were found, face conspiracy charges. Child abuse charges […]

The United States is ending all funding for the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, the US State Department says. It described the organisation, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa), as “irredeemably flawed”. The US administration has “carefully reviewed” the issue and “will not make additional contributions to Unrwa,” spokeswoman Heather Nauert said. A spokesman […]

Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo appointed Bashe Yusuf Ahmed as chairman of the Supreme Court, as he overhauls the war torn nation’s judiciary. President Farmajo says that latest change of guard part of his initial campaign pledge to have a proper and functioning justice system that caters for the needs of the country’s citizens. Bashe […]

The Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations [CECAFA] sent a congratulatory message to the president of Somali Football Federation Abdiqani Said Arab for attaining the Football Achievement Award from the president of the federal republic of Somalia H.E Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. “Dear President Abdiqani Said Arab,I take this opportunity to congratulate you for […]

Polls have opened in Lebanon for the first parliamentary elections in almost a decade. The last elections in the country were in 2009, for what was supposed to be a four-year term. But parliament extended its term twice due to instability in neighbouring Syria, and to reform the country’s electoral laws. It changed the voting […]

Two hundred and seven child soldiers have been released by armed groups in South Sudan, part of a series of planned discharges that should see nearly 1,000 children return home over the coming months. The move, facilitated by United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), follows the release of 300 children by armed groups in early February. “No child […]

The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) held a one-day training for partners in Jowhar, the administrative capital of HirShabelle state, to familiarize them with the Somalia Country Specific Humanitarian Civil-Military Guidelines, which guides the interaction between partners and the Mission. “Humanitarian challenges call for increased coordination and dialogue between AMISOM and partners operating in […]