ETHIOPIA’S BORDERLESS CYBERESPIONAGE
Chinese- and European-made spyware is enabling Addis Ababa to silence dissentby Felix HorneI met Abdi (not his real name), a 32-year-old primary school teacher from Ethiopia’s Oromia region, last July...
View Article4,000 arrested so far in terror crackdown – Lenku
By JEMIMAH WANGUI Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph ole Lenku said that officers from the police and Immigration Department were still scrutinising documents presented by some of the suspects for...
View ArticleSenior officials voice outrage at killing of two UN consultants in Somalia
UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov. Photo: UNODCSenior United Nations officials today voiced outrage at the killing of two consultants working for the world body’s arm dealing with drugs and crime...
View ArticleI drive Muslim dead on their final journey on this earth
With 32 years of experience driving a Muslim hearse, Ibrahim proudly talks about his career saying that its all about dedication. As others may consider his job to be that of a mere driver, what they...
View ArticleUN Seeks to Help Refugees, Asylum Seekers Held at Kenya Stadium
By David Malingha DoyaThe United Nations Refugee Agency appealed for access to Somali refugees and asylum seekers who have been detained by Kenyan authorities as part of an investigation into...
View ArticleHundreds of immigrant kids sent abroad to study
Hundreds of Norwegian-Somali children are being sent to study in Somalia, Kenya, Egypt and Britain, because their parents are concerned that they are struggling to prosper inside the Norwegian system,...
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Wararka aan maanta idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah :Xaalad cabsi oo soo wajahday shaqaalaha QM ee deegaannada Maamulka Puntland, Barlamaanka oo maalintii labaad ka doodaya qaadasha kaarka muwaadininimada...
View ArticleBritish and French UN workers killed in Somalia named
The pair were shot in Galkayo, on the border with PuntlandThe UN has identified two of its workers killed in Somalia on Monday as UK citizen Simon Davis and French citizen Clement Gorrissen.Mr Davis,...
View ArticleSomaliland authorities shut down independent papers
The front page of an old edition of Haatuf newspaper. A court on Thursday ordered the paper to be shut down. (Guleid Hussein)Nairobi, Police in the semi-autonomous republic of Somaliland on Thursday...
View ArticleBribery claims rock MPs’ Somalia trip
BY SADAB KITATTA KAAYAA visit by MPs to Somalia last month has run into trouble, with the Uganda police at the centre of ‘bribery’ allegations.Some MPs claim that the trip, with ‘all expenses paid’ by...
View ArticleNYPD hunts for man who threatened to kill Muslim teen
By Jamie Schram Muslims pray together.Photo: AFP/Getty ImagesThe NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is hunting for a middle-aged white man who called a 15-year-old Muslim girl a “terrorist” and threatened to...
View ArticleSecurity downturn in Mogadishu
Photo: Ahmad Mahmoud/IRINA crowd gathers after an explosion in front of Mogadishu’s national theatre in March 2013MOGADISHU, 9 April 2014 (IRIN) – Three years after Al-Shabab insurgents withdrew from...
View ArticleKenya sends back ‘illegal’ Somalis after Nairobi raids
The security operation was launched after explosions in a mainly Somali neighbourhoodKenya has sent back 82 Somalis to Somalia after launching a massive security force operation to flush out illegal...
View ArticleEthiopian oil marketer says Africa needs to refine its oil
ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s leading private oil marketer plans to expand into neighbouring east African economies and is interested in part financing a refinery after commercial discoveries in...
View ArticleFaisal Roble: Post civil war Somalia
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Wararka aan idiin heyno manta waxaa ka mid ah:Qarax ka dhacay Kismaayo oo lala eegtay AMISOM, dibad bax Muqdishu ka dhici lahaa oo loogaga soo horjeedo halwgalkii Kenya lagu qabqabtay Somali iyo warar...
View ArticleSajid Javid: son of Muslim immigrant bus driver breaks Tory mould
Culture secretary was brought up in Rochdale, rose to top at Deutsche Bank, and keeps portrait of Lady Thatcher on his wallBy Patrick Wintour Sajid Javid has replaced Maria Miller as culture secretary....
View ArticleJubilee pact seals my position, defiant Duale tells his critics
National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale threatened to withdraw support for the Jubilee government over what he termed arbitrary arrests of “his people.” PHOTO | FILE NATIONMajority Leader Aden...
View Article4,000 immigrants reach Italy by boat in 48 hours – as minister calls for EU help
Boats from Africa and Middle East are arriving at the fastest rate since a naval operation to handle influx began last yearMigrants after a January rescue operation by the Italian navy off the coast of...
View ArticleReal Images of the Despised, Debased Somali Lot
By Faisal A. RobleTwo things do not add up together: On the one hand, the internet has been replete with images of Somalis being harassed, maimed and humiliated in Kenya. It became omnipresent in the...
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