Category: Global News & Politics

Al Sissi, Ethiopian PM in ground-breaking talks on dam row By Ramadan Al Sherbini Cairo: Addis Ababa has pledged to Egypt that Ethiopia’s construction of a controversial dam, which has strained ties between the two African countries, will not “harm Egyptian water interests”, the official news agency (Mena) reported Friday. The pledge came at landmark...

Algeria booked their place in the last 16 of the World Cup for the first time in their history with a 1-1 draw against Russia in Curitiba. Aleksandr Kokorin gave Russia a sixth-minute lead, which would have earned Fabio Capello’s team a clash against Germany in Porto Alegre on Monday. However, Islam Slimani netted on...

By Alix Culbertson The two-year-old was taken by police in a ‘horrifying raid’ after a neighbour allegedly called police saying he was neglected About 50 Somali people campaigned outside Hammersmith Town Hall today A Somali community campaigned today after a toddler was pulled out of his family home by undercover police after a neighbour allegedly told...

BY ABDI GULED MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A suicide bomber and gunmen killed three people, including two soldiers, on Thursday when they attacked a hotel housing African Union and Somali forces, officials said. The attack began when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the Amalow Hotel in Bulo-Burte town before gunmen tried to force their...

Stewart  Bell A Toronto man convicted of attempting to join the Somali terrorist group Al Shabab should serve no more than four years in prison, his lawyer argued Wednesday, claiming his client had engaged only in “non-violent terrorism.” But federal prosecutors are seeking the 10-year maximum sentence for Mohamed Hassan Hersi, a 28-year-old former security...

New UN report says Somalia-based radicals operate off lucrative, illegal trade in charcoal, one of Africa’s main source of cheap energy. By Ryan Lenora Brown Khalil Senosi/AP NAIROBI, KENYA — Every year, hundreds of boats leave Somali ports bound for the Gulf states, packed full of contraband goods whose profits line the coffers of the Somalia-based extremist group Al...