Brig Michael Kabango. COURTESY PHOTO By JULIUS OCUNGI GULU/KAMPALA. The Army has appointed Brig Michael Kabango, the 5th Division Commander in Northern Uganda as the new Uganda People’s Defence Forces [UPDF] Contingent Commander in Somalia. Brig Kabango will now replace Brig … Continued
Kenya Airways CEO Sebastian Mikosz. FILE PHOTO | NMG By BONFACE OTIENO National Carrier Kenya Airways is finally set to start direct flights from Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to Somali capital Mogadishu today after postponing the launch twice. … Continued
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The United Nations appealed for $2.7 billion to help South Sudanese refugees on Tuesday, saying a funding shortfall for Africa’s biggest refugee crisis had left many short of food, water and medicine. The appeal follows … Continued
ADDIS ABABA, (Xinhua) — Inter-clan clashes in Ethiopia’s Southern Regional State has left 43 people dead since September, state affiliated media outlet Fana Broadcasting Corporate (FBC) reported on Tuesday. In a press statement, Police Commission of Southern Regional State, said … Continued
ABU DHABI, (WAM) — H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, has received Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs Workneh Gebeyehu, currently visiting the country, and discussed ways of consolidating cooperation in areas of … Continued
By ABDIMALIK HAJIR Jubaland leader Sheikh Ahmed Madobe met with senior politicians and elders in Garissa County on Sunday ahead of the upcoming polls in the semi-autonomous region in Somalia. Sources told the Nation that Mr Madobe had come to lobby for … Continued
NAIROBI (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Monday it had killed 62 militants in six air strikes on Saturday and Sunday in the vicinity of Gandarsh in Somalia’s south-central Banaadir province. The military’s Africa Command (Africom) said four strikes … Continued
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Somalia has closed an underground prison where the government has held extremist suspects and journalists amid allegations of abuses against inmates, the security minister said Sunday. Ahmed Abukar said that Godka Jilaow prison, which held hundreds … Continued
Doha: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, participated in the 18th edition of Doha Forum in the opening plenary session, The Global Order Revisited: Old Actors, New Alliances, with Hassan Ali … Continued
Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo. The president is likely to survive an impeachment motion. PHOTO | AFP By FRED OLUOCH Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed “Farmajo” is likely to survive an impeachment motion, but he is not sitting pretty … Continued
Mogadishu – The Special representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia (SRCC) and Head of AMISOM, Ambassador Francisco Madeira, has been following closely the events in South West State of Somalia that culminated in the arrest of … Continued
A section of Maka-al-Mukarrama Avenue in Mogadishu. ABDULKADIR KHALIF | NATION MEDIA GROUP By ABDULKADIR KHALIF Maka-al-Mukarrama Avenue easily passes for the stretch in Mogadishu that has absorbed the most violence unleashed by the Al-Shabaab jihadists in the past decade. … Continued
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