Category: Global News & Politics

By Moses Michira Money from illegal sugar imports from Somalia is allegedly bank-rolling activities of the terrorist group, Al-Shabaab. The militia has been causing death on Kenyan soil, in what the group says is retaliation for the Kenya Defence Forces’ continued stay in Somalia. A truck driver with knowledge of the illegal trade says the...

By Kukil Bora Members of the New York Police Department join in prayer at the Islamic Cultural Center of New York in the Manhattan borough of New York on Aug. 26, 2010. The Islamic Cultural Center was the first mosque built in New York City and was completed in 1991. Reuters/Lucas Jackson The National Security Agency,...

Andargachew Tsege, a UK national, leads the banned Ginbot 7 movement Opposition leader Andargachew Tsege has appeared on Ethiopian state television, following his disappearance from Yemen last month. His UK-based wife Yemi Hailemariam told the BBC she was shocked to see him on television. Yemen arrested Andargachew while he was in transit at Sanaa airport,...

By Mohamed Sheikh Nor and Michael Gunn Somalia’s government fired the country’s police commissioner and head of national security after Islamist militants attacked the presidential compound in the capital yesterday. Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab insurgents entered the compound in Mogadishu before Somali armed forces alongside African Union peacekeepers repulsed the attack, killing three of the assailants and...

By: Abdi Guled MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s government said its troops have retaken the presidential palace in the capital of Mogadishu Tuesday, after Islamic militants forced their way in and exchanged heavy gunfire with troops and guards. Loud explosions and gunfire could be heard inside the heavily fortified compound, which has been the subject of...

Heavy fighting has broken out near the presidential palace in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. Gunfire and explosions can be heard and suspected Islamist militants are attacking the palace from two directions, witnesses told the BBC. The BBC’s Mohammed Moalimu says President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is not at the palace. The al-Qaeda-aligned al-Shabab group lost control of...

IT is ironical the cantonment in Abuja where a blast killed and injured people in a 2010 pre-New Year revel is named Mogadishu after the capital of Somalia, which has had no central government since General Mahammad Siad Barre was over thrown in 1991. Scores of secessions saw to disintegration of a territory Ethiopians, French,...

by MATT SEPIC Somali-Americans rally in Minnesota in 2012, after the only bank that supported the money-exchange system called hawala withdrew from those transactions. Other banks eventually stepped in to fill the demand, but one of the last to facilitate the transfers plans to stop doing so at the end of the month.Jim Mone/AP Somali-Americans may...

Eamon Bradley from Derry on horseback in the Middle East BY MICHELLE SMYTH A man from Northern Ireland who joined a Syrian rebel group has said that Islam saved him from destroying his life with drugs. Eamon Bradley from the Creggan area of Londonderry told his family he was going on holiday to Turkey a...

Yemen Unlawfully Deported Andargachew Tsige, Concerns over Possible Mistreatment (London) – An exiled Ethiopian opposition leader unlawfully deported by Yemen back to Ethiopia is at risk of mistreatment including torture. Andargachew Tsige is secretary-general of Ginbot 7, a banned Ethiopian opposition organization, and was convicted and sentenced to death in absentia in separate trials in Ethiopia in 2009 and...