Africa

Somalia's Foreign Minister Abdisalam Omer says that as a result of successful joint operations by the Somali military and the African Union's peacekeeping force "we have militarily defeated the evil that is al-Shabab." He said the al-Shabab extremist group controls less than 10 percent of...

By ELKANA JACOB @elkana_jacob A bullet was recovered from one of the female terror suspects gunned down in Mombasa's Central police station, in an autopsy led by government pathologist Johansen Oduor at Coast General hospital. According to Oduor, the exercise was minimal as was agreed with...

By CIUGU MWAGIRU After decades of hopeless entrapment in an economic, social and political quagmire, the volatile Federal Republic of Somalia on Saturday embarked on an elaborate electoral programme. The presidential election slated for October 30 is eagerly awaited. The formal launch of the elections ushered in...

A new railway line connecting Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa to the port city of Djibouti is set to be officially inaugurated next month. A government-organized media tour Saturday touted the flagship project, mostly funded by China, and set to officially open in October. The railway line,...

By CALVIN OSARIGO @kalvohonsa Haniya Said Sagar, the widow of slain muslim cleric Aboud Rogo, on Friday was charged with withholding information that could have prevented the attack at the Mombasa Central Police Station on September 11. According to the charges, Sagar (pictured) had information prior...

The goal of Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to have an election based on universal suffrage by 2016 was ambitious at best. Many called it naive. Indeed, at the end of last year, it became clear that ongoing disputes between himself and his prime...

Somalia’s Attorney General Ahmed Dahir put up a spirited case at the International Court of Justice against Kenya’s attempts to discredit a border row case it has petitioned the court to resolve. Kenya’s Attorney General Githu Muigai slammed Somalis as ‘ingrates’, accusing them of reneging...

Somalia says an agreement it signed with Kenya in 2009 was not specific on how to resolve the maritime boundary dispute between the two countries. In its submissions before the International Court of Justice, Mogadishu argued that the memorandum of understanding (MoU) only dealt with...

The Somali Republic (Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Somaliyeed, Arabic: جمهورية الصومال ) was formed as new nation, following the union of the former Italian Somalia, today’s Somalia, and British Somaliland, today’s Republic of Somaliland. The high-profile one-day 28th extra-ordinary session of Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) summit...

Kenya has called at the United Nations General Assembly for more funding for its plan to repatriate more than 300,000 Somali refugees living in a vast camp on its border, citing world leaders' commitment to burden-sharing. In May, Kenya announced its plans to close the...