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BY Fauxile Kibet Kenyan immigration officials Monday barred two opposition politicians from attending the funeral of Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai who died last week after a long battle with…

A military court in Mogadishu Tuesday sentenced to death a navy officer found guilty of killing his senior Admiral Sa’id Adan Yusuf. The first degree court condemned Abdinasir Hosh to…

The elder and spokesman of the Hawiye clan Ahmed Diriye passed on in Mogadishu Monday night following ill-health, the family has said. The outspoken elder aged 75 was known for…

Lack of capacity and skills remains a major challenge to mobilizing domestic revenue collection, Finance Minister Abdirahman Beileh has said. Beileh said the government was not in a position to…

Presidential elections for South West state will take place November 17 this year, the State Assembly declared Monday as it closed its fourth session today. The Assembly also passed a…

Deputy police commissioner Bashir Abdi Mohamed has been promoted to head the police while former intelligence chief Gen. Bashir Mohamed Goobe will head the prisons as health assistant Hussein Osman…

The drought situation in parts of Puntland has worsened with locals forced to travel distances to find drinking water, a government official has said. Karkar regional governor Abdullahi Mohamed Barre…

The UN has warned the drought situation in Somalia still remains critical warning of a ‘strong possibility that famine-type conditions would develop’. UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Peter de Clercq…

By Associated Press West Africa’s extremist threat has moved into a new part of the vast Sahel region, with a previously calm area of Burkina Faso facing the kinds of…