Kenya has no interest in Somalia, says IGAD special envoy
By ADOW JUBAT SOMALIA, KENYA: Intergovernmental Authority on Development Special envoy to Somalia Ambassador Mohammed Abdi Affey has dismissed claims that Kenya is keen on creating Jubbaland in Somalia...
View ArticleHarassment haunts Somalis after Westgate
Nairobi – Mass arrests, extortion, deportation and suspicion: one year since Somali gunmen staged a four-day massacre in Nairobi’s Westgate mall, Somalis in Kenya say the attack has left their...
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Looking at this life from grave?
HARUN YAHYA Life flies by in the blink of an eye. One moment you are in your 20s, the next you are in your 40s; then you are at death’s door. While life flies by so fast, death comes when a person is...
View ArticleWarka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka aan idiin hayno waxa ka mid ah: Maamulka Puntland oo u ogalaaday in ay ka kaluumeystaan deegaannadiisa in ka badan 400 oo doonyood: Ra’iisul wasaaraha Soomaaliya oo Birtayn kaga qayb galay...
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Three years after Somali famine, new hunger crisis looms
Somali boys play with their toy guns after attending Eid al-Fitr prayers to mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, July 28, 2014. REUTERS/Feisal Omar By Abdi...
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A new low in anti-Muslim American bias
By Dean Obeidallah Dean Obeidallah says Oklahoma Rep. John Bennett, seen at a 2013 press conference, has unfairly attacked the loyalty of Muslim Americans. Editor’s note: Dean Obeidallah, a former...
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Girl power: Meet the Spice Girls of Ethiopia
PANASHE CHIGUMADZI Women’s rights activists Yegna have established themselves as the Spice Girls of the Horn of Africa “Women are sisters, women are mothers, women are wives. Let’s respect them. Tell...
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Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta summoned by ICC to hearing
The case against Uhuru Kenyatta has angered many African leaders The International Criminal Court (ICC) has summoned Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to appear before the tribunal on 8 October. Judges...
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Sick pilgrims coming with wish to die in KSA criticized
In this Oct. 19, 2012 file photo, Saudi paramedics carry a pilgrim on a stretcher during Friday prayers in the Grand Mosque at the annual Haj pilgrimage in the holy city of Makkah. (Reuters) JEDDAH:...
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3 Somali engineers killed in Mogadishu
There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack By Nour Geidi MOGADISHU, Three Somali engineers were killed in a drive-by shooting in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday. “Masked gunmen opened...
View ArticleUganda uses taxi operators, salonists to gather intel
By JULIUS BARIGABA More than four years since the July 11, 2010 twin bombings in Kampala, which claimed 79 lives, Uganda’s security has worked on processing intelligence information faster and used it...
View ArticleJubbaland to set up assembly
By FRED OLUOCH The Somali government has finally given in to pressure and allowed the formation of a self-administered region of Jubbaland. On Tuesday, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud commissioned the...
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Wararka aan idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah: Madaxweynaha Soomaaliya oo furay fadhiga shanaad ee Barlamaanka Soomaaliya, Maareeyihii garoonka Xamar oo kooxo hubeysan ay saakay ku dhaawaceen Muqdisho iyo...
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Donors will fail Gaza again
By Nicole Nasser On 12 October, Cairo is due to host a conference, sponsored and chaired by Egypt and Norway, of international and Arab donors for the reconstruction of Gaza. This is their ostensible...
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Kenya’s Somali community ‘isolated, scapegoated’ following last year’s...
By Martin Cuddihy The Westgate attack killed almost 70 people last year. (Credit: Reuters) Africa correspondent Martin Cuddihy writes that in the security crackdown following last year’s Westgate mall...
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Former head of human rights charity accused of leading double life as...
Abdul Rahman al-Nuaimi accused of sitting at centre of web of funding for al-Qaeda affiliates in countries ranging from Yemen to Syria, to Iraq to Somalia. Abdul Rahman al-Nuaimi is accused of helping...
View ArticleRaadRaac: Wareysi gabdho Soomaalyeed oo ku aadan eedaynaha AMISOM
Barnaamijka RaadRaac waxaanu ku eegaynaa aragtida gabdhaha Soomaaliyeed ee faraxumayntii lagu eedeeyay ciidamada AMISOM. Wareysi aanu la yeelanay gabdho Soomaaliyeed oo ku sugan magaalada Muqdishu iyo...
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Kenya to stay course in quest to stabilize Somalia: President
BY GEORGE OBULUTSA Harish Daria and his son light candles at the first anniversary memorial service of the Westgate shopping mall terrorist attack in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, September 21, 2014....
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Trio prosecuted for hate attack against Somalis
Somali nationals taking part in a demonstration against deportations in Stockholm. File photo:Björn Larsson Ask/SvD/ TT Three young men in southern Sweden suspected of attacking Somali refugees with...
View Article2 AL-SHABAB SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN FRANKFURT
BERLIN, German authorities have arrested two suspected members of the Somali-based extremist group al-Shabab after they landed at Frankfurt airport Saturday. The federal prosecutors’ office said in a...
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