ABUJA, Nigeria/ISTANBUL– In Nigeria, where US President Donald Trump recently raised the threat of military intervention, citing attacks on Christians, terrorist attacks also target Muslims, who make up half the population, drawing reactions to Trump from various parts of the country. If the Nigerian government “continues to allow the killing of Christians,” Washington would immediately...
By Osman H. Yusuf Brief introduction: In the past people complained more about dictatorship than security but nowadays they are grumbling about the concentration of power in the hands of elected ruling elite and mismanagement of public resources. But when it comes to electing representatives they miserably fail to elect people of good background and...
By Abdikarim Buh Scandinavia has long been painted as the world’s utopia of equality: clean streets, strong welfare systems, and a commitment to social justice. But for many non-white residents, the story is far less idyllic. Beneath the picturesque facades and progressive rhetoric, subtle—but persistent—racism shapes daily life, quietly drawing invisible lines that separate insiders...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — In the Ugandan newsroom where he appeared one day as an intern, Zohran Mamdani looked shy and unassuming. His father had arranged for him to spend time at the Daily Monitor newspaper with hope that the teenager would show more interest in current affairs. “He told me himself: He had to go every evening and...
(ERGO) – Hundreds of people with mental illnesses in need of specialised care and assistance are being locked up, left to roam, or otherwise abandoned in the Somali refugee camps in Dadaab in Kenya, where there are no facilities to help them and families are overwhelmed. Two brothers, Ali Isaaq Ali, 40, and Mohamed Isaaq Ali,...
(Reuters) – Fighters riding camels rounded up a couple of hundred men near the Sudanese city of al-Fashir at the weekend and brought them to a reservoir, shouting racial slurs before starting to shoot, according to a man who said he was among them. One of the captors recognized him from his school days and...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The woman remembers when she first moved to the neighborhood more than 20 years ago, and the streets were full of empty storefronts and seemingly relentless poverty. Today, Minneapolis’ Lake Street corridor is jammed with businesses, many owned by Somali refugees. “Look at what we did around here,” said Nasra Hassan, a...
By Dayib Sheikh Ahmed Having worked on three U.S. presidential campaigns two as a field organizer and one as an African-American and immigrant outreach director I have witnessed firsthand what motivates voters. Every successful campaign, no matter its scale, rests on three fundamental pillars the economy, ideology, and issues. Voters support what they understand and...
(ERGO) – Dozens of families forcibly evicted from an internal displacement camp near Baidoa, southern Somalia’s Bay region, have had their property and sources of income violently torn away from them. The landowners, who had allowed the families to settle there in the first place, suddenly ordered them to leave Weel-eyle camp on 1 September because...
By Abdisaid Muse Ali The chain that links Bosaso to El Fasher is not made of ideology or coincidence. It is built from logistics. In October 2025, Ilyushin IL-76s flew a fixed loop from the United Arab Emirates to Bosaso, then to Kufra and eastern Libyan fields, before returning along the same route, and the...