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Mandera Governor Ali Roba has raised an alarm over the resurgence of the Somalia terror-based group al Shabaab. Roba on Friday said he has been forced to go public about the deteriorating security situation in North Eastern Kenya and particularly Mandera County because people are now living in fear after a return of the Al […]

 The crisis facing Britain this winter is depressingly familiar: Stay-at-home orders and empty streets. Hospitals overflowing. A daily toll of many hundreds of coronavirus deaths.The United Kingdom is the epicenter of Europe’s COVID-19 outbreak once more, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government is facing questions, and anger, as people demand to know how the […]

Eighty-sixed permanently from his personal account by Twitter for propelling his mob to attack and occupy the Capitol, President Donald Trump transferred his carping to the official @POTUS account early Friday evening. His four tweets there, since deleted by Twitter, complained of being gagged by the “Democrats and Radical Left” and pledged he would explore “building out our own […]

Coordinator of the Search and Rescue of Basarnas Rasman deployed divers team in JICT II Terminal, North Jakarta on Sunday (Jan 10, 2021). ANTARA/Andi Firdaus/sh Jakarta (ANTARA) – The National Search and Rescue Team (Basarnas) has readied divers to locate debris of the ill-fated Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed in the waters of Seribu Islands […]

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks at the ruling party congress in Pyongyang, North Korea, Jan. 8, 2021. (AP Photo)  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened to expand his nuclear arsenal as he disclosed a list of high-tech weapons systems under development, saying the […]

More than 36,000 people have been killed and three million people have fled their homes since Boko Haram launched its attack in northeast Nigeria in 2009 [File: Issouf Sanogo/AFP] At least a dozen civilians, including eight children, were killed in a village in northern Cameroon on Friday when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in […]

  Twitter Inc said on Friday that it has permanently suspended U.S. President Donald Trump’s account due to the risk of further incitement of violence following the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.The suspension of Trump‘s account, which had more than 88 million followers, silences his primary megaphone days before the end of his term and follows years […]

President Donald Trump is facing mounting calls for his removal after the US Capital was stormed by his supporters on Wednesday. © Tasos Katopodis, AFP President Donald Trump is facing mounting calls for his removal after the US Capital was stormed by his supporters on Wednesday. © Tasos Katopodis, AFP US President Donald Trump said on Friday he would not […]

The tattoo-chested man in a horned headdress, the middle-aged intruder with his foot on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk and the woman shot dead by police: Their images have been beamed around the world but who are the Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol? Jake Angeli, second from right, is a prominent supporter of the […]

This year, Somalia is going into enormously consequential elections that will determine the fate of the country, its geopolitical role and its significance in the Horn of Africa region. Already, the Federal Indirect Electoral Commission (FIEC) has produced the voting timetable: parliamentary elections by Jan. 6, 2021, and presidential elections by Feb. 7, 2021. Given […]