Muqdisho (WDN)- Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya Md. Xasan Sheekh Maxamuud, ayaa booqsho ku tagey dalka Kenya kadib casuumaad rasmi ah oo uu ka heley dhiggiisa Kenya Md. Uhuru Kenyata. Madaxweyne Xasan ayaa dhiggiisa Kenya Md. Uhuro Kenyata la yeelan doona wada hadallo ku saleysan sidii loo xoojin lahaa sarena loogu qaadi lahas iskaashiga iyo xiriirka u dhexeeya labada dal, iyadoo...
Saudi Arabia opens airspace to Israeli flights
(CNN) Saudi Arabia on Friday opened its airspace to all civilian carriers, including all flights to and from Israel, in a step toward normalizing relations between the two nations as US President Joe Biden tours the Middle East. In a statement shared hours before he was due to fly directly from Israel to Saudi Arabia, Biden hailed the kingdom’s decision, saying...
Why the WHO chief has attracted the Ethiopian government’s fury
by Samson Mulugeta When the pandemic struck in late 2019, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization, became the face of the global response. Largely unreported, however, is Tedros’s estrangement with the government of his native Ethiopia. That government lobbied furiously in May to thwart his second five-year term as the global health leader. Tedros stepped onto the world...
Police release corruption list allegedly linked to disaster risk management chief
Addis Abeba – The federal police have released a list of suspected corruption practices allegedly committed by The Federal police has detained Mitiku Kassa, Commissioner of the Ethiopian National Disaster Risk Management Commission (NDRMC), who has been detained on 13 June. Upon his detention, Tadesse Ayalew, deputy commissioner of the Federal Police’s Criminal Investigation Department, told state media that the commissioner was...
Operation Dudula distances itself from attacks on Somali shopkeepers in Khayelitsha
Nomalanga Tshuma Cape Town – The Somali business community in Site B and Kuyasa, Khayelitsha, is begging the police to rescue them from targeted attacks by people claiming to be members of the anti-illegal immigrant movement Operation Dudula. One of the victims, Abdi Mamahed Molim, said that since Saturday, Somali-owned spaza shops in several local communities in Khayelitsha have been...
Mo Farah: Police investigate trafficking revelations
By Christy Cooney The Metropolitan Police say they have opened an investigation into Sir Mo Farah’s revelation that he was trafficked to the UK as a child. The force says specialist officers will assess information the former Olympic athlete gave in a BBC documentary. Sir Mo said he arrived under a false name after escaping war in Somalia. The runner,...
The Financial System Africa Needs
By Vera Songwe, project syndicate ADDIS ABABA – For African economies that have yet to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s war in Ukraine could not have come at a worse time. The economic wounds of the previous crisis had been stitched up, but more time was needed for them to heal, let alone for the scars to fade. Now,...
Ethiopia holds first meeting of peace committee
A body charged by the Ethiopian government to look into possible peace negotiations with Tigrayan rebels has held its first meeting, a top aide to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said. The seven-member committee, headed by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen, “has started work”, Redwan Hussein said on Twitter after Tuesday’s meeting. “It has decided on its internal...
Madaxweyne Xasan Sheekh oo dalka dib ugu soo laabtey kadib booqasho uu ku tagey Ereteriya heshiisna la saxiixday
Muqdisho (WDN)- Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya Md.Xassan Sheekh Maxamuud ayaa maanta dalka dib ugu soo laabtey, kadib booqasho maalmo qaadatey oo uu ku tagey dalka Ereteriya. Madaxweyne Xasan ayaa heshiisyo dhinacyo badan taabanaya kusoo saxiixey dallkaasi Ereteriya, isagoo sidoo kale soo kormeerey ciidamada xooga dalka oo tababarka loo geeyey dalkaasi. Heshiiska labada madaxweyne ay saxiixeen oo si rasmi ah ah...
Ethiopia tasks UN to help rebuild Tigray infrastructure
Aid convoys by road to Tigray resumed in April after three months The Ethiopian government said on Tuesday it was tasking a UN agency with helping to rebuild infrastructure in Tigray that was destroyed in the conflict between rebels and federal forces. The reconstruction is part of a project financed by the World Bank, which in April gave Ethiopia a...