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By Sirad Shirdon A few months ago, I met with a vibrant Somali mother who runs a community organization which serves newly arrived refugees. She expressed concerns regarding the lack of understanding newcomers had regarding their children’s medical conditions. One of her greatest challenges in serving refugees was in improving health literacy. She mentioned that...
BY ERIC JOHNSTON YOKOHAMA – Meeting on the eve of the fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development, African leaders discussed a number of concerns with the Somalian leader, including immediate basic security issues, as well as more mid- and long-term economic and social needs. Mohamud, in turn, identified his government’s goals: security, meeting basic human needs,...
A leading academic has claimed that religious fundamentalism could soon be treated in the same way as mental illness. Kathleen Taylor, a science author and research scientist at the University of Oxford, told the Hay Literary Festival techniques were already under development to help curb radicalised beliefs. She also claimed behaviours such as hitting children could...
New York, May 30, 2012–Ethiopian authorities have detained since Friday a reporter who sought to interview people evicted from their homes in a region where the government is building a contentious hydro-electric dam on the Blue Nile, according to a news report and the reporter’s editor. The Committee to Protect Journalists said today that the case highlights...
A Somali woman who lied about her identity when she came to New Zealand six years ago may be deported after serving a home detention sentence. A woman going by the name of Raha Ali Abdi, 30, was sentenced to nine months’ home detention when she appeared in Auckland District Court this week, after being...
CAIRO — Ethiopia’s construction of Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam on the world’s longest river threatens to affect flows of water to Nile-dependent, water-starved Egypt, where there is growing outrage, anger and fear. Egypt in the past has threatened to go to war over its “historic rights” to Nile River water but diplomats from both countries...
By Secunder Kermani BBC News, London Concern has been raised over the ease with which a Londoner killed in a drone attack in Somalia was able to attend militant Islamist camps in the country. Bilal Berjawi, from St John’s Wood, was reportedly operating at a senior level within the Islamist group Al Shabab until he...
By Frankline Sunday More Kenyan companies are forging business ties with Somalia as rebuilding of the war-torn country gathers momentum. They want to take leading role in its reconstruction as world powers scramble for the resources and opportunities in the country.Somalia has faced civil strife for the last three decades with State security agents and international forces battling armed militia...
By Muktar M Omer WardheerNews Contributor Email: muktaromer@ymail.com The cause and effect debate As the dispute between the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) and the self-declared Jubaland Regional State (JRS) intensified, the national debate reverberated with matching intensity. Pro-Jubaland politicians and media traced the source of the impasse to the ambitions of an overbearing central...
Dane McDonald, News24 Cape Town – All the Somali-owned shops in Port Elizabeth’s Booysen Park have been burned or looted and owners have evacuated the area, police say. “All remaining Somali shop-owners have packed up and left the Booysen Park area,” police spokesperson Stanley Jarvis told News24. “Police are in control of the situation, but...