Politics

The Somali government says it has killed more than 130 fighters from the Islamist militant group al-Shabab – including top commanders. It says a joint operation was carried out with Somalia’s international partners, which include the US military. The group has recently lost swathes of territory as the result of …

Supported by intelligence experts and based on content available in open source, the specialized media Numerama was able to analyze an ingenious practice of the Ukrainian army: transforming commercial drones from the Chinese brand DJI into kamikaze devices. On January 16, Ukrainian Digital Minister Mykhailo Fedorov again called for drone …

Egypt on Thursday unveiled four tombs of pharaonic dignitaries and a more than 4,000-year-old mummy at Saqqara near Cairo, the latest of discoveries announced with great fanfare by a country keen to bring tourists back. It was in the necropolis of Saqqara, known for the famous step pyramid of Pharaoh …

US President Joe Biden, who plans to run for a second term, will meet wealthy Democratic Party supporters at two fundraising events next week. The octogenarian leader will be in New York next Tuesday, then in Philadelphia on Friday, meeting wealthy supporters to fill his party’s coffers. Joe Biden has …

Kenya’s deputy president has ordered government administrators in the country’s central region to enforce a one-pub-per-town directive that was issued last week. Rigathi Gachagua also wants entertainment joints in the region to only operate between 17:00 to 23:00 in new measures meant to deal with alcoholism. There are fears the …

France is recalling its ambassador to Burkina Faso, a day after it announced that its military mission there was to end. The French foreign ministry said Luc Hallade was returning for consultations on the state of relations between Paris and its former West African colony. There have been weeks of …

North Korea has ordered a five-day confinement in its capital Pyongyang due to a “respiratory illness”, reported a South Korean specialized site. The move appears to be the first citywide measure taken since the country declared victory over Covid-19 in August 2022. Residents of Pyongyang have been ordered to stay …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday approved emergency aid of $105 million for Haiti, which is plunged into a humanitarian crisis aggravated by inflation. The funds should enable the Caribbean country to “support those most affected by rising food prices through food distributions and payments to the most vulnerable …

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has called on his supporters to resist the government of President William Ruto, saying its disputed election last August had robbed it of legitimacy. Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza coalition eked out a narrow victory over Odinga in the election, whose result announcement was accompanied by chaotic …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denounced the attitude of Volodymyr Zelensky’s allies including the United States and the West, during his trip in South Africa on Monday. “Russia does not refuse negotiations with Ukraine,” said Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, on Monday during a trip to Pretoria, South Africa. Almost …