Category: Global News & Politics

The six Zone9 bloggers and three journalists held arbitrarily since 25 and 26 April have not been formally charged within the 80-day limit allowed by Ethiopia’s draconian terrorism law. The hearings that should have been held on 12 and 14 July to charge them were simply cancelled. Reporters Without Borders was disappointed but not really surprised to...

Muslim students from Maina Wanjigi Secondary School in Nairobi’s Eastleigh 4th Street area were Monday morning barred from entering the school following a religious dispute. Trouble started at the school last week on Thursday after a Christian girl was converted to Islam which is against Ministry of Education regulations. The student’s parents reported to school...

Villagers say they are being forcibly relocated from Ethiopia’s Gambella region A legal battle has been launched by an Ethiopian citizen who claims the UK has helped to fund a “brutal” resettlement programme in his country. The man, who can only be referred to as “O”, won permission to seek a judicial review at London’s...

The United States on Monday welcomed a new ambassador from Somalia the first in over two decades. The State Department said the government of the troubled east African nation had sent Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke. “We are pleased to announce the arrival of Ambassador Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, the first Somali ambassador to the United States...

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...