By Amelia Nierenberg and Hussein Mohamed. New York Times Hussein Mohamed reported from Mogadishu, Somalia Somalia’s leader said Wednesday that it was “better not to respond” a day after President Trump called Somali immigrants “garbage” during a xenophobic tirade. “We are not the only country that Trump insults,” Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre told an audience at an innovation...
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has been orchestrating an illegal grab of public land in Mogadishu—seizing state-owned property meant for schools, hospitals, public institutions, and redirecting it into private hands through opaque and unlawful deals. While these land grab is taking place ministries are residing in rented houses. The below is the list public lands sold thus...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal authorities are preparing a targeted immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota that would primarily focus on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S., according to a person familiar with the planning. The move comes as President Donald Trump again on Tuesday escalated rhetoric about Minnesota’s sizable Somali community, saying he did not want immigrants from the...
By Isha Qarsoon Somalia’s public debates tend to focus on individuals and the daily turbulence around them. But behind these arguments, a more serious problem is developing. The country is drifting into a governance trap that will shape its future far more than any single president or cabinet. This trap is not the result of...
ADDIS ABABA (Xinhua) – Senior African Union (AU) officials and development partners on Monday called for urgent and widespread adoption of digital technologies to revolutionize the continent’s agricultural sector. They made the remarks during the opening session of the inaugural AU Conference on Digital Agriculture, held under the theme “Shaping Agricultural Policy for Africa’s Future:...
KIGALI, Rwanda- At least 37 people are missing after a boat capsized on a river in the southern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kasai province, authorities said Monday. The accident occurred on River Luangatshimo last Wednesday but was only confirmed to media on Monday. The boat was carrying 42 passengers from Lovua town, heading to Nangalula,...
By Dr. Adam I. OHirsi They were born into a country that had already vanished from their parents’ hands. The Somali Democratic Republic collapsed in 1991, and the idea of one meaningful and cherished shared home collapsed with it. Thirty-four years later, the state still hasn’t come back—not in any way that feels solid. In...
NAIROBI, Kenya– Seven people, including National Police Service reservists, were killed Saturday in coordinated cattle-rustling attacks that hit multiple villages in upper eastern Kenya, authorities said. The area lies roughly 270 kilometers (168 miles) northeast of Nairobi, across the Meru–Isiolo border region, where communities in both counties live in close proximity and often share grazing...
By Eng Mohamed Ali Mirreh It was a quiet afternoon in August 2024 when my phone buzzed with a simple WhatsApp notification—yet that vibration carried the weight of half a century. A group had been created under the name “1971 Class – Amoud Secondary,” and I had been added. The initiator was none other than...
PARIS (AP) — In a dimly lit office in a corner of the French National Institute for Art History, Sudanese archaeologist Shadia Abdrabo studies a photograph of pottery made in her country around 7,000 B.C. She carefully types a description of the Neolithic artifact into a spreadsheet. As the war between the Rapid Support Forces...