By Hussien Mohamed Yusuf Drought is a deficiency in precipitation over an extended period, usually a season or more, resulting in a water shortage causing adverse impacts on vegetation, animals, and/or people. It is a normal, recurrent feature of climate that occurs in virtually all climate zones, from very wet to very dry. Drought is...
By Lawrence Pintak ” Islam hates us.” That was a recurring theme of your campaign, Mr. President-elect. And who can blame you? After all, your top advisors on Muslim affairs — Ann Coulter, Frank Gaffney, and Walid Phares — are card-carrying Islamophobes. Your incoming national security advisor, retired Army Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, wants Muslim...
By Muawiya Muhumed Burale The Government of Kenya has established a Northern Collector Tunnel that will gather water at the source in the Aberdare forest and divert it to Thika’s Ndakani dam for use in Nairobi, according to opposition leader Raila Odinga. Raila said that the tunneling of the project in Murang’a poses danger to...
By Hassan M. Abukar Background: A well-placed Somali businessperson sent me this letter via e-mail. It is poignant and bold, straddling between hope and despair, frustration and relief, boom and bust. It is also a testament to the miracles taking place in the capital as well as the maladies it is suffering. ______ Dear Hassan:...
By Nina Lakhani in Tapachula, Mexico, The Guardian The sun has barely risen and already hundreds of migrants are gathered outside the vast white and green immigration detention centre, hoping to get through its gates. Most have travelled thousands of miles on foot, by boat and bus from South America, but few here speak Spanish....
W.Q. Siciid Jaamac Xuseen Hadday jiraan malyuun qof oo Hadraawi yaqaan, waxaa hubaal ah in mid waliba sidiisa u yaqaan oo halkaas aad ugu tegaysid malyuun. Aniguna malyuunkaas ayaan ka mid ahay. SIDAAN U AQAAN: Waa qof, waa abuur insi ah, waa nolol giraan ah, oo xilkeeda, xiskeeda, xanuunkeeda iyo xariirteedu waqti xaddidan leeyihiin., oo...
By MaanHadal In a small room filled with light, softsmoke blowing from a finely crafted incense burner, a group of men are chewing mouth-watering, bitter-tasting tender stems of Kenyan Miraa – cheerfully tucking handfuls of the stuff into their mouths – displaying swollen cheeks – and squinting with one eye. The scene at the chewing...
Photographs by Amnon Gutman In July, photographer Amnon Gutman spent 12 days on board a 50-year-old 100-foot trawler in Libyan coastal waters with a team of Sea Watch volunteers — a crew comprised of doctors, engineers, and a cook, among others. Other rescue boats h elp ferry migrants the rest of the way on their...
By Abdirahim Saeed & Deirdre Finnerty BBC World Service Farhiya was separated from her father when she was a baby She didn’t see him for nearly 40 years They were reunited thanks to a stranger on social media “Congratulations! We found your dad!” read an email in Farhiya’s inbox. “I couldn’t believe it when I...
By Abdullahi Mohamed In every nation, there are people whose worth is belittled unfairly or whose potential is undermined unjustly. People, who do not have enough educational background or solid experience, develop myths against disabled individuals in society. Here is the story of Sheikh Salah Ahmed who overcame the challenges and barriers that disabled people...