Al-Shabaab warn of Mogadishu attacks during Ramadan
Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab militants have warned they will step up attacks in the Somali capital Mogadishu during the holy month of Ramadan, which started on Sunday.In an audio message released on the...
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Women more vulnerable to Islamophobia: Traditional dress makes wearer...
There has been a surge of anti-Islamic attacks following the murder of Drummer Lee RigbyJonathan BrownMuslim women are more likely to fall victim to Islamophobic hate crimes than men, with many of the...
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Wararka aan idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah: Dilal loo geystay askar ka tirsan ciiddanka dowladda Soomaaliya oo maanta siyaaba kala duwan ugu dhacay Muqdisho, Shabaab oo sheegtay in ay kordhin doonto...
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My visit to the Horn of Africa region
By Hamse WarfaIt has been almost 20 years since my family and I left the Horn of Africa region fleeing from violence in Somalia’s civil war and the degrading conditions of the refugee camps (Dhadhab...
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OROMIA REGION: STATE BROADCASTER FIRES 20 JOURNALISTS FOR “NARROW POLITICAL...
photo : Muktar Kedir, President of the Oromia regional stateReporters Without Borders condemns last week’s politically-motivated dismissal of 20 journalists from Oromia Radio and Television...
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A Muslim American journalist explains how she became the story at a Texas GOP...
BY HEBA SAIDHeba Said (Adrian Gandara)The frustration kept me awake the first time I read the comment. It is difficult to understand how, in a land that each year honors a man who marched for...
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A year after Morsi, Egypt’s revolution is not over
Many have fallen for the false choice between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood, but the country’s activists are still fighting for an alternativeHa HellyarAn Egyptian court has sentenced three...
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Barking Somali women celebrate the ban of ‘family-destroying’ drug khat
KhatBy Anna SilvermanAlmost a year after home secretary Theresa May announced she intended to ban it, khat is now an outlawed class C drug.This week, Somali women in the borough celebrated the news...
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Kenya: Terre des hommes assists more than 19’500 Somali refugees
@tdhAny views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.Since October 2012, Terre des hommes (Tdh), alongside 18 other main aid agencies, has been involved...
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Al-Shabaab threatens more attacks in Mogadishu over Ramadan
A Somali soldier patrols at the Karan market in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu on June 30, 2014, after a bomb exploded. Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab has vowed to increase attacks during the...
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Wararka aan idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah: Madaxda dowladda Soomaaliya oo ka qayb galay xuska munaasibadda 1da Luulyo oo xalay iyo saakay ka dhacday Muqdisho, Gobollada Dalka oo sidoo kale iyana laga...
View ArticleCOSTLY PROTOCOL IRREGULARITIES OF PUNTLAND ADMINISTRATIONS
By Ismail H. WarsameIt has become an intoxication fashion for Puntland successive administration leaders to indulge in prohibitively expensive state receptions and send-off of the head of the...
View ArticleKenya relocates over 2,700 refugees to camps
The Kenyan government has relocated 2,760 refugees and asylum seekers to the refugee camps in northern Kenya, while another 360 people including five refugees were deported to Mogadishu, the UN said on...
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French Muslim women on burqa ban ruling: ‘All I want is to live in peace’
Rights organisations and Muslim women shocked at European court ruling that France has right to ban full-face veil in publicKim WillsherA woman wears a burqa at a market in Paris despite it being...
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Mogadishu bound cargo plane crashed in Nairobi
BY PROF. DR. WOLFGANG H. THOME, ETN AFRICABreaking news from Nairobi talk of a turboprop cargo plane, reportedly a converted Fokker 50, crashing after takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport...
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Saudi establishes camel milk firm in California
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWSA young Saudi has established a company selling camel’s milk in the United States, despite the animals reportedly being the source of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)...
View ArticleClan warlordism: The case of Somaliland, Puntland, et al
By Mohsin MahadFor those who grew up under European colonialism, it was the accepted conventional wisdom that domination was a product of foreign rule, something alien to us as Somalis. Little did we...
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The search for Samantha Lewthwaite
By Adam Wishart Samantha Lewthwaite was married to one of the 7/7 bombersOn 22 September last year, smoke billowed over the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Troops and police ducked between...
View ArticleCHINA BANS RAMADAN FAST IN MUSLIM NORTHWEST
BEIJING (AP) — Students and civil servants in China’s Muslim northwest, where Beijing is enforcing a security crackdown following deadly unrest, have been ordered to avoid taking part in traditional...
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Wararka aan maanta idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah: Shabaab oo gaari qaad ah ku gubtay maanta Galgaduud dadkii saarnaa gaarigana dishay, Dilal salka ku hayo aanooyin oo ka dhacay Hobyo iyo warar kale.Warka...
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