Category: Global News & Politics

By Dan Hughes (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images) Somalia has appointed the country’s first ambassador to the United States in more than two decades. Omar Abdirashid Ali Shamarke had his diplomatic credentials accepted today at the White House, where he is expected to attend President Obama’s Iftar celebration this evening, a dinner marking the breaking of the...

A church in Charlottetown is reuniting four young Somali refugees with the rest of their family after more than four years trying. Nasro Awil Adhar and her three younger siblings came to P.E.I. in 2008 through a sponsorship from the Muslim Association of P.E.I. In 2010 Trinity United Church decided to sponsor the rest of...

Shipping security consultant says 9 times out of 10 pirates turn tail when they seem armed guards on the boats. But the war against piracy isn’t entirely over. By Mike Pflanz MOMBASA, KENYA — When they speed up to a lumbering ship, the main thing Somalian pirates do not want to see are armed guards. With...

EAMON QUEENEY | DISPATCHElmi Nur, 65, holds his right arm, which was injured when he was attacked and beaten about two months ago by four men steps from his home in the Capital Park Apartments. He still wears a brace on the arm. By Mark Ferenchik & Theodore Decker Hamdi Yusuf was sitting in her second-floor bedroom at...

Security has been tight in Mombasa where a number of prominent Muslims have been murdered recently Two gunmen have shot dead a prominent Muslim businessman facing terrorism charges in the Kenyan city of Mombasa. Mohamed Shahid Butt was driving back from the airport on Friday evening when his car was blocked by another vehicle and...

Security Council meets on situation in Somalia.(file photo) UN Photo/Evan Schneider The members of the United Nations Security Council have condemned “in the strongest terms” the recent attacks by the insurgent group Al-Shabaab in Mogadishu against the presidential palace and seat of Government, as well as on the Somali Parliament and its members. The 8...

By FRED OLUOCH   Suspected Al-Shabaab fighters are paraded at the Uganda Force Contingent headquarters in Mogadishu on February 28, 2014. AFP The increased Al Shabaab attacks on Somali government figures and the African Union peacekeepers have raised concerns about the mission’s control of the war-torn nation. After successful advances by the African Union Mission in...

Bristol council is helping people in the community to adjust to government’s decision to make khat illegal ILLEGAL IN THE UK: A Somali man chewing khat at a social gathering HEALTH WORKERS and council officials in Bristol are working with the city’s Somali community to help it deal with the recent ban on the drug...

By Paul Richardson Djiboutian opposition leader Abdourahman Boreh blamed his rivalry with President Ismail Omar Guelleh for the government’s decision to cancel DP World (DPW)’s concession at the country’s port. Boreh, a presidential candidate in elections in 2011, also denied any wrongdoing during his tenure as chairman of the Djibouti Ports and Free Zones Authority. Djibouti’s...

Ultra-nationalists face difficult choice between ‘enemy’ networks but most people seem only to care about not missing the game Patrick Kingsley Egyptian football fans are watching the Holland v Argentina semi-final in a bar in Cairo. Photograph: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images Egyptian football fans are in a fix: they are forced to choose between watching the World...