US Presidential Barack Obama speaks on immigration reform in the Rose Garden of the White House on June 30, 2014 in Washington, DC. A new poll Wednesday found President Barack Obama, who is enduring a tough second term, topping a list of the worst US leaders since World War II. PHOTO/AFP WASHINGTON, A new poll Wednesday...
ONE serves a multi-cultural community with a growing number of Somali families in east Bristol. The other takes its pupils from a predominantly white, working-class neighbourhood in the south of the city. Now plans for Hareclive Academy, a high-flying primary school in Hartcliffe, to take over the running of the under-performing Barton Hill Primary School have provoked...
A senior officer of the Self-Defense Forces will take over the rotating command of the multinational anti-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia, a government source said Thursday. The Abe administration determined there are no legal problems with an SDF officer commanding troops of other countries despite Japan’s very strict rules on the use of...
BY BERNARDO VIZCAINO A woman walks past a branch of Noor Islamic Bank along Khalid Bin Al-Waleed Street in Dubai in this May 30, 2010 file photo. CREDIT: REUTERS/MOSAB OMAR/FILES Islamic banking is based on core principles of the religion. So it is striking that some banks are removing the word “Islam” from their names...
An irrigation canal being reinforced near the Kabasa displacement site, outside Doolow in southern Somalia. The work is supported by the World Food Programme. Photo: FAO/Frank Nyakairu Urgent action is needed to prevent a worsening of the humanitarian crises in both Somalia and Yemen, senior United Nations relief officials warned today, as they urged donors to help...
BEIJING (AP) — Students and civil servants in China’s Muslim northwest, where Beijing is enforcing a security crackdown following deadly unrest, have been ordered to avoid taking part in traditional fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Statements posted Wednesday on websites of schools, government agencies and local party organizations in the Xinjiang region...
By Adam Wishart Samantha Lewthwaite was married to one of the 7/7 bombers On 22 September last year, smoke billowed over the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Troops and police ducked between buildings amidst sporadic gunfire as militants from Somalia’s al-Shabab network carried out an assault that left dozens dead. I’d landed a few...
BY PROF. DR. WOLFGANG H. THOME, ETN AFRICA Breaking news from Nairobi talk of a turboprop cargo plane, reportedly a converted Fokker 50, crashing after takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport with a full load of Miraa on board, bound for the Somali capital of Mogadishu. Though feedback is still very sketchy it is confirmed...
Rights organisations and Muslim women shocked at European court ruling that France has right to ban full-face veil in public Kim Willsher A woman wears a burqa at a market in Paris despite it being banned in France. Photograph: Philippe Lissac/Photononstop/Corbis Anti-discrimination organisations have expressed shock after the European court of human rights ruled that France has...
The Kenyan government has relocated 2,760 refugees and asylum seekers to the refugee camps in northern Kenya, while another 360 people including five refugees were deported to Mogadishu, the UN said on Tuesday. The latest report from the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Eastern Africa says the relocation or deportation of refugees...