Category: Global News & Politics

By Eric Roper and Maya Rao Legal challenges are mounting in a contentious state house race that has divided Minneapolis‘ Somali community. Rep. Phyllis Kahn’s campaign filed a petition with the state Supreme Court Monday alleging that acity election judge was biased toward Kahn’s opponent, Mohamud Noor. The filing comes just days ahead of a hearing on the eligibility...

Reuters / Adrees Latif After refusing to meet for drinks with the head of the Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus Foundation, the organization told the Hispanic student she was not eligible for a scholarship given she was Muslim, the young woman claims in court. Moriah Elusta has sued the Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus Foundation (ILLCF) and...

By GALGALO BOCHA Attackers who butchered more than 10 men at Hindi killed their victims depending on their ages. According to eyewitnesses, they killed men because “they will one day join the military, go to Somalia to kill and rape” their women. “They removed girls’ trousers to check their genitals and establish if indeed they...

An unidentified severely malnourished Somali refugee child rests inside a ward at the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital at the Dagahale refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border. File photo. Image by: THOMAS MUKOYA / REUTERS War-torn Somalia is sliding back into an acute hunger crisis with parts of the capital facing emergency levels just...

JEDDAH: IRFAN MOHAMMED Pilgrims and visitors are becoming hard-pressed to find bottled Zamzam water with the influx of worshippers flocking to the Grand Mosque during Ramadan and the lack of availability at points of sale. While Zamzam water, which comes from the Zamzam well at Makkah, is available in abundance in the coolers inside the...

It’s 30 years since Ethiopia’s famine came to attention in the UK. Now, a farmer plans to sue Britain for human rights abuses, claiming its aid has funded a government programme of torture and beatings as villagers have been removed from their homes By David Smith i One of hundreds of families in the Gambella...

By Standard Editorial Kenya: Yet again, Kenya woke up to the gruesome news that criminals had once more killed over 20 people on Saturday night. These suspected terrorist attacks were in the Hindi and Gamba areas of Lamu. Indeed, this is very depressing news, especially considering that the Cabinet Secretary for the Interior has consistently...

While official UK figures show a decline in hate crime generally, anti-Muslim abuse appears to be bucking that trend. By Simon Hooper Muslims attend Friday prayers on a rainy first day of Ramadan in East London [Reuters] London, UK – The number of reported instances of anti-Muslim hate crime in the UK has risen sharply since...

MOMBASA, Kenya – Gunmen killed at least 29 people in raids on two separate areas on the Kenyan coast, the interior ministry said on Sunday. The Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab, which attacked the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi last September, said it had staged an attack on Saturday evening in the coastal area.Nine...