By Moses Michira GARISSA, KENYA: Detectives in troubled Garissa town say a booming black market could be the main cause of the incessant violence. The illegal trade is on household products such as sugar, which is imported tax-free. Investigations into the recent wave of killings in Garissa town that have claimed dozens of Government workers...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A most-wanted American jihadi in Somalia said Friday that the leader of Islamic extremist rebels in Somali was starting a civil war, just hours after an assassination attempt left the Alabama native with a neck wound. Omar Hammami posted on Twitter about what he labeled an assassination attempt late Thursday as...
GENEVA (Reuters) – Somalis may soon be receiving letters from abroad for the first time in more than 20 years after a deal was struck with the United Nations’ postal agency, the latest step towards ending Somalia’s isolation following two decades of civil conflict. But the challenges to bringing the Horn of Africa country back...
The question in the minds of many Somalis today is: has Turkey’s Somalia policy—which is on steroids— veered into a troubling new, uncharted territory? Consider the subversive “Somali Mediation” meeting that was concluded in Ankara on April 13, 2013 under the auspices of the Turkish State. It was attended by the heads of two unrepresentative...
By Richard Lough MOGADISHU (Reuters) – In a sign of growing optimism that Somalia is winning a struggle against pirates and al Qaeda-linked insurgents, Britain opened an embassy on Thursday in a set of four metal cabins at Mogadishu airport. It was the first such move by a Western power since Somalia began to emerge...
New York, (HRW) – The government of Chad should arrest Abdelraheem Mohammed Hussein, the defense minister of Sudan, Human Rights Watch said today. He is expected to attend a conference in Chad on April 25 and 26, 2013, according to news reports. Hussein is sought by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimes...
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time Abraham Lincoln Ronald Reagan was a great communicator and I would like to borrow his famous words in a debate with Jimmy Carter ““There you go again”. ...
By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia will withdraw its troops from Somalia soon, its prime minister said on Tuesday, voicing frustration with the Mogadishu government and African Union peacekeeping forces that are also battling Islamist militants there. After waging an ill-fated war in Somalia in 2006-2009, Ethiopia in 2011 once again rolled troops...
I just came across the speech of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, dated April 21, 2013, which he delivered at the second TANA HIGH LEVEL FORUM BOARD. Despite that the press release could have used some competent editing (Like catching the President’s name in lower case) the message conveyed is crystal clear. To those unsuspecting presidential...
Nairobi, ( HRW) – Kenya’s new administration should take urgent steps in four key areas to address longstanding human rights challenges, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The administration should ensure that abusive security forces are held to account, protect independent voices, accelerate key police and land reforms, and cooperate fully with the...