By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU, May 17 (Reuters) – Somalia’s prime minister is expected to face a vote of confidence next week, lawmakers said on Friday, and backers of the challenge said they were frustrated with the pace of political reform. Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon Saaid heads a fledgling government Western capitals say is the...
By Nima Elbagir, CNN Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) — In a classroom tucked away from the world in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, students practice spelling. Ranging in age from 6 to 11, these girls all have one thing in common: They have either been raped or suffered through the rape of a loved one. Even the 6-year-old is a rape...
By OLIVE BURROWS NAIROBI, Kenya, May 17 – Deputy President William Ruto has called on the African Union to increase its military presence in Somalia in order to ensure regional stability. Speaking as he represented President Uhuru Kenyatta on a tour of four African nations, the deputy president said the political instability in Somalia has led...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two Minnesota women convicted of conspiring to send money to the terrorist group al-Shabab in Somalia are to be sentenced in federal court. Amina Farah Ali and Hawo Mohamed Hassan are the last of nine defendants sentenced this week in federal investigations into recruiting and financing for al-Shabab. Authorities say the women...
Mogadishu – A warlord in southern Somalia’s Jubaland region has declared himself “president” of the region, leaders said on Thursday, shortly after the election of another militia commander to the post. With tensions already high, the move raised the risk of clashes between rival factions in the southern port city of Kismayo, a former stronghold...
By ANNA EDWARDS and JAMES RUSH This is the first picture of an 11-year-old girl who was killed by a lorry on her way home from school. The devastated relatives of Hani Haji Hassan today said she was a ‘lovely girl’ who wanted to be a doctor. Her family have described how they had to take the agonising...
New York, May 15, 2013–Ethiopian police in Addis Ababa questioned an editor for several hours today in connection with a story published in October about the widow of the late Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi, according to news reports. Officers in the Ethiopian Federal Police Crime Investigation Department interrogated Ferew Abebe, the former editor-in-chief of the...
Low vaccination rates in multiple African countries could doom global eradication efforts From Afghanistan to Somalia, the struggle to eradicate polio continues to lurch along in fits and starts. The past few days have brought a modicum of good news and some potentially quite bad news. On May 13, the Taliban issued a statementdeclaring that it...
Ahmed Madobe is key ally of Kenya, and his appointment risks opening rift between Nairobi and Mogadishu. NAIROBI – Former Islamist warlord Ahmed Madobe has been elected “president” of Somalia’s volatile southern Jubaland region following weeks of tense negotiations between rival factions, officials said Wednesday. The vote in the southern port city of Kismayo was...
PRESS RELEASE The people and Government of Puntland State of Somalia warmly welcome the election of the new President of Jubaland State of Somalia, His Excellency Ahmed Mohamed Islam, who was elected by a majority of community delegates at the Jubaland Constitutional Conference in Kismayo. Puntland congratulates the people of Jubaland State and the new...