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10-July-2024 Ciidamada sida gaarka ah u tababaran ee Danab iyo kuwa Daraawiishta Jubbaland ayaa maanta howlgal culus oo ka dhan ah Al-Shabaab ka sameeyay qaybo kamid ah gobolka Jubbada Hoose ee koonfurta dalka Soomaaliya. Howlgalkan oo ahaa mid qorsheysan ayaa waxaa ciidamada huwanta ay kula wareegeen deegaanka Harboole oo ah mid istaraatiiji ah, iskuna xira gobollada Jubbooyinka. Ciidamada ayaa gudaha u galay deegaankaasi, waxayna kadib isku fidiyeen tuulooyinka u dhow, si ay uga hortagaan soo rogaal celinta maleeshiyaadka kooxda Al-Shabaab. Deegaankan ayaa u dhexeeyo degmada Afmadow iyo deegaanka Janaay Cabdalle, waxaana marta waddo muhiim u ah oo isku xirta gobolka Jubbada Hoose iyo gobolka Jubbada Dhexe. Sa犀利士 raakiil u hadashay milatariga Soomaaliya ayaa sheegay in...

9-July-2024 An officer of the Ugandan army operating in Somalia has died and six other soldiers have been injured after the military convoy they were traveling with exploded in a roadside mine. The man who was killed was a captain of the Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF), and his name is Patrick Opio Away. The explosion that killed the officer took place in the village of Eel-warigow, which is about 70 km south-west of the capital city of Mukidsho, according to Ibrahim Kasule Sekitto, the spokesman of the Ugandan army who spoke to Reuters news agency. Al-Shabaab was accused of being behind the attack. Awany was commanding the convoy, which was heading from Mogadishu to Ceeljale in the Lower Shabelle region, Sekitto told Reuters. "This attack won't deter us, it wil...

2 Jul 2024 World Benchmarking Alliance says companies should take greater responsibility for UN Sustainable Development Goals. More than 90 percent of the world’s 2,000 most influential companies, including Amazon, BMW, Nestle, Rio Tinto, Pfizer, Shein, and Standard Chartered, are failing to meet societal expectations towards human rights, working conditions and corporate ethics, a first-of-its-kind assessment has found Despite commanding revenues equal to 45 percent of the global economy, the world’s top companies are missing the opportunity to positively affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people, the nonprofit World Benchmarking Alliance said in a report released on Tuesday The companies have resources and influence equivalent to some of the biggest countries, im...

1-July-2024 Why is July the hottest month of the year? The world has faced its 12th straight month of historic heat, with this summer on track to be among the hottest yet. While summer has only just begun in the Northern Hemisphere, heatwaves have already gripped many parts of the world including across the United States, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East and South Asia. Extreme heat has led to more than a thousand deaths, urgent health warnings and school closures July is historically the hottest month of the year, where in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, temperatures regularly exceed 40C (104F). According to the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO), July 2023 was the warmest month ever recorded, likely the hottest for at least the past 120,000 years, with th...

29-June-2024 Kenya's President William Ruto, bowing to pressure from an angry public, rejected the contentious Finance Bill 2024 in its entirety and called for austerity measures to compensate for the potential revenue shortfall in his Ksh3.99 trillion ($30.93 billion) budget for the 2024/2025 fiscal year. The decision came in the crescendo of a public outrage over high taxation.The Parliamentary Committee on Finance had put the amount to be raised from the taxation measures contained in the bill at Ksh302 billion ($2.34 billion). The withdrawal of the proposed revenue law came even after the government announced on June 18 the shelving of several new taxes and suspension of others costing the exchequer an estimated Ksh200 billion ($1.55 billion). Public demonstra...

28-June-2024 The current president was perceived as stumbling over his words while the Republican Trump repeated numerous falsehoods. President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have squared off in the first debate of the 2024 United States presidential race, seeking to pull ahead in a match-up that has, so far, been in a dead heat. But despite delivering the opening salvo in Thursday’s event, Biden struggled to articulate his points at several moments, appearing to fumble for his words Meanwhile, Trump took the opportunity to redirect the conversation at several points to Biden’s perceived weaknesses, drumming up fears about immigration and the state of the economy. He also attempted to dodge questions about whether he would honour the results of November 5’s presidential elec...

10-June-2024 More armed conflicts took place in 2023 than in any other year since the end of World War II, a new study has found. The Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO) said 59 armed conflicts took place worldwide last year, led by the wars in Ukraine and Gaza Twenty-eight of the conflicts were in Africa, followed by Asia with 17 and the Middle East with 10. Just three conflicts were recorded in Europe and a single example in the Americas. Although the number of conflicts grew last year, the number of countries that experienced conflicts declined from 39 in 2022 to 34. The increase in the number of conflicts can partially be attributed to the spread of ISIL (ISIS) across Asia and the Middle East and the involvement in general of a growing number of non-state actors....

European countries accused of complicity in deaths due to migration policies after charity vessel retrieves 11 corpses in Mediterranean, rescues more than 160. The aid group Doctors Without Borders has reported recovering 11 bodies and rescuing dozens of people off the coast of Libya as it criticised the migration policies of the North African country and European countries In a statement on Friday, the group, known by its French initials MSF, said its Geo Barents rescue vessel managed to recover the bodies following a search operation lasting more than nine hours after being alerted by German nongovernmental organisation Sea-Watch, which also rescues refugees and migrants “As we cannot 壯陽藥 determine the reason behind this tragedy, we know that people will continue to take danger...

6-June-2024" Norway says it never interfered with a legal challenge mounted by Somalia against Kenya over a maritime boundary dispute. Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide, while speaking generally of the Kenya-Norway ties, used the occasion to clarify his country’s role when Kenya and Somalia fought at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the Indian Ocean border. The case was decided in October 2021, favouring largely, Somalia’s arguments that there had been no definitive maritime boundary between the two countries. The court ordered a re-demarcation of that boundary, drawing a line between the two sides’ contested flow of the boundary. Read: ICJ verdict fresh test for shaky Kenya-Somalia ties But Norway had been involved in the dispute, at one time lea...