A Somali soldier patrols at the Karan market in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu on June 30, 2014, after a bomb exploded. Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab has vowed to increase attacks during the fasting month of Ramadan. PHOTO/AFP PHOTO Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for a string of attacks in the capital Mogadishu and warned that...
@tdh Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Since October 2012, Terre des hommes (Tdh), alongside 18 other main aid agencies, has been involved in a major emergency response operation in favour of Somali refugees in the North-eastern part of Kenya. According to UNHCR (2014),...
Khat By Anna Silverman Almost a year after home secretary Theresa May announced she intended to ban it, khat is now an outlawed class C drug. This week, Somali women in the borough celebrated the news as they wave goodbye to the plant blamed by many for unemployment, poverty and abuse. “We’re really happy because...
Many have fallen for the false choice between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood, but the country’s activists are still fighting for an alternative Ha Hellyar An Egyptian court has sentenced three Al-Jazeera journalists, Australian Peter Greste, Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, and Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed, to seven years in jail for ‘aiding the outlawed...
BY HEBA SAID The frustration kept me awake the first time I read the comment. It is difficult to understand how, in a land that each year honors a man who marched for everyone’s equality, people could not want the same for me, a fellow American. The comment that suggested I was responsible for reversing the work...
Reporters Without Borders condemns last week’s politically-motivated dismissal of 20 journalists from Oromia Radio and Television Organization (ORTO), the main state-owned broadcaster in Oromia, Ethiopia’s largest regional State. The 20 journalists were denied entry to ORTO headquarter on 25 June and were effectively dismissed without any explanations other than their alleged “narrow political views,” an assessment the...
MONTH OF SHARING: Pilgrims break fast with dates at the Grand Mosque in Makkah on Monday. (AN photo by Ahmed Hashad) Philanthropists will distribute more than 7.5 million packets of iftar meals among worshippers at the Grand Mosque in Makkah throughout Ramadan. “Everyday they supply 250,000 iftar meals, of which 80,000 meals are distributed in...
BEIJING (AP) — China is re-opening its embassy in Somalia some 23 years after evacuating its diplomats as the East African nation plunged into civil war. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Monday the decision came after Somalia established its first government and parliament in 21 years. He said Beijing would send a delegation to...
Algeria coach Vahid Halilhodzic has been angered by media questions as to whether his players are observing Ramadan. Algeria coach Vahid Halilhodzic has turned on reporters repeatedly asking whether his players are observing Ramadan on the eve of their World Cup clash with Germany. Germany take on the Algerians in Porto Alegre on Monday (Tuesday...
KARACHI: The 12 Pakistanis out of 20, who were trafficked from Pakistan to Somalia by cruel agent for slavery, returned to Pakistan on Saturday with the kind efforts of former Federal Minister for Human Rights Ansar Burney and Ansar Burney Trust International. The Ansar Burney Trust International that was endeavouring hard to save the lives...