By Edmund Blair (Reuters) – Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, is expected to visit London at Britain’s invitation next week for a conference on Somalia. It will be his first trip to a Western capital since his election in March. Britain and other countries...
Somali president expected to present plans for rebuilding military, police and justice systems, as civil society calls on nascent government to empower women and provide jobs By Mark Tran On Tuesday next week, the UK hosts yet another big conference on Somalia, bringing together officials from 50 countries and organisations, including the UN, African Union...
Massive reduction in pirate attacks on ships put down to greater co-operation, use of armed guards and harsh jail terms Associated Press The fight against Somali pirates has been so effective that they have not been able to mount a successful hijacking in nearly a year, the chair of the global group trying to combat...
Somalia, where almost 260,000 people — half of them young children — died of hunger in a 2010-2012 famine, according to a UN report on Thursday, is an impoverished country in the Horn ofAfrica. It has been ravaged by a civil war since the fall of the regime of Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991: –...
By RACHEL REILLY Children who spend more time playing outside are less likely to suffer from short-sightedness. Two new studies have added to the body of evidence that daylight plays an important role in preventing the condition. It is not known why daylight is important but some experts believe levels of the brain chemical dopamine play...
A strategic port is booming yet politically vulnerable A RED shipping container is suspended from a crane above a tandoori-hot dock alongside the freighter on which it has just crossed the Indian Ocean. Suddenly something goes slightly wrong. The container slips, maybe by a foot: no harm done. Perhaps a mechanical fault is to blame,...
By Peter Martell MOGADISHU: Not yet named but much loved by watchful parents, a newly born baby boy is a small symbol of change: a birth, not a death for Somalia’s key war hospital. After over two decades of bloody civil war, Somalia remains a very dangerous place, but security has slowly improved, with Islamist fighters linked to Al-Qaeda on...
Muqdisho, May 02 , 2013 (WDN)- Madaxweynaha Soomaaliya Md. Xasan Sheekh Maxamuud iyo wafti uu hogaaminayo oo maanta ka ambabaxay magaalada Muqdisho ayaa gaadhay magaalada Addis Ababa oo ay kaga qaybgalayaan shir madaxeedka waddamada ku bahoobay urur goboleedka IGAD. Madaxweynaha iyo waftigiisa, ayaa waxaa garoonka dayaaradaha ee magaalada Addis Abab si diirran ugu soo dhaweeyay...
Muqdisho, May 02, 2013 (WDN)- Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya Md. Xasan Sheekh Maxamuud, ayaa maanta hortagay barlamaanka Soomaaliya, halkas oo uu ka jeediyay qudbad dhinacyo badan taabaneysay. Md. Xasan Sheekh oo hadalkiisa ku billaabay booqashadiisii Puntland, ayaa waxa uu sheegay in maamulka Puntland uu yahay maamul ku dayasha mudan oo khibrad u leh hannaanka federalka,...
Rammah Al-Jubari SANA’A, The Passport Authority says they are working on the case of around 60 Ethiopian migrants who having been sitting outside the authority’s building for about a week, asking to be repatriated to their home country. “I don’t have [enough] money to pay for a smuggler to take me to Saudi Arabia, and...