Category: Global News & Politics

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...

Saudi Gazzette Editorial At a time when Kenya is at war with terrorism, the last thing that it needs is to go to war with itself. Nairobi’s intervention in neighboring Somalia helped to oust the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab from much of the territory it had seized. However as regular armies the world over have always...

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...