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Should cell phones be jammed inside Haram?
DISTRACTION: Worshippers have frequently complained about some camera-obsessed people at the Grand Mosque in Makkah. (AN photo) The government should ban worshippers from using social networking sites...
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Qatar Airways is set to be the newest airline to expand its presence the East...
Washington ( WDN) A delegation led by Somalia’s Prime Minister Omer Abdirashid Ali, who is currently touring the gulf oil rich country of Qatar, on March 17, 2015 has attended a bilateral business...
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Nairobi (Reuters) – The U.S. Embassy in Djibouti closed its doors to the public on Thursday to review security in the tiny Horn of Africa state that hosts an American military base, the embassy said in...
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Mara Group ebulliently positive about the outlook for business in Africa
By Simeon Kerr, Financial Times Ashish Thakkar is wearing large sunglasses as he swings open the doors to his 73rd floor penthouse in Dubai’s financial district. Casually turned out as if he were in...
View ArticleGERMANY CHARGES 6 MEN OVER ALLEGED LINKS TO AL-SHABAB
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have charged six men over alleged links to the Somali-based Islamic extremist group al-Shabab. The federal prosecutors’ office on Friday charged five of them with...
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer ee an idiin heyno waxaa kamid ah: Ra’iisul Wasaaraha Soomaaliya oo sheegay in ay dowladu ku hawlan tahay sidii sanadka 2016, Soomaaliya ay ugu dhici laheyd doorasho,...
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600 Students Expelled for Cheating on School Exams in India
PATNA, India (AP) — About 600 high school students in eastern India have been expelled for cheating on pressure-packed 10th grade examinations this week, education authorities said Friday. More than...
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Girls’ education in Somaliland: The start of a quiet revolution
There is a corner in a part of the world commonly associated with the worst kinds of upheaval that is quietly making some surprising positive change happen, while all around it there is turmoil. A...
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‘Stability, democracy or no EAC for you’
President Kikwete said democracy, good governance, human rights and rule of law are critical tenets of the EAC. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP By Christabel Ligami and Havyarimana Moses South...
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Somalis upset as racial unrest builds at St. Cloud Tech High
BY MAYA RAO Somali students say the school’s officials haven’t done enough to stop harassment by classmates. Somali students try to negotiate with a St. Cloud police officer guarding the front door of...
View ArticleETHIOPIAN COURT JAILS PILOT FOR 19 YEARS FOR HIJACKING PLANE
BY ELIAS MESERET ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, An Ethiopian court on Friday sentenced co-pilot Hailemedhin Abera to 19 years in prison for hijacking a plane bound for Rome and taking it to Geneva. The court...
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Somalia auditor general’s report to detail corruption in ministries
A teller counts U.S. notes at the Dahabshill money transfer office in capital Mogadishu February 16, 2015. REUTERS/Omar Faruk By Drazen Jorgic NAIROBI, March 21 (Reuters) – Somalia’s corruption...
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Presidential candidate fears for the “Somaliasation” of Nigeria
By Adrienne Klasa As Nigeria waits for delayed polls for a hotly contested national election to open, opposition presidential candidate General Muhammadu Buhari says he fears for the “Somaliasation” of...
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Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali floats conversion to Judaism
Hirsi Ali says obama is naïve in his attempt to negotiate a nuclear arms deal with Iran. Ayaan Hirsi Ali . (photo credit:REUTERS) Controversial Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali said that she had previously...
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Minnesota and the 2015 Somali Region’s Elections in Ethiopia
By Karamarda Group Note: Five years ago this month Karamarda’s first article appeared on Wardheernews analyzing the 2010 Ethiopian election. Since then, the Karamarda Group published various articles...
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Bringing African Shoppers to the Global Mall
By CLAIRE MARTIN The New York Times Last year, when Tunde Adebayo needed three inflatable bouncy castles for KidzPlay, his event-planning business in Lagos, Nigeria, he turned to an online shopping...
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INTERVIEW: Ethiopia aims for climate neutrality by 2025
By E.G. Woldegebriel Kare Chawicha heads Ethiopia’s Ministry of Environment and Forest. The ministry has a key role in trying to harmonise the country’s push for rapid economic growth with efforts to...
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From Minneapolis to ISIS: An American’s Path to Jihad
By SCOTT SHANE New York Times MINNEAPOLIS — Reading back over Abdi Nur’s Twitter feed, his chilling progression from the basketball courts of South Minneapolis to the battlefields of Syria is clear....
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St. Cloud officials meet with Somali students over treatment
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — St. Cloud school officials have met with Somali parents, community elders and students after Somali-American students walked out to protest their treatment. The meeting happened...
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