Category: Global News & Politics

Mogadishu – UN Security Council ambassadors met with Somalia’s president on Wednesday under heavy security in the war-ravaged capital Mogadishu, the presidency said in a statement. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and top government officials met the UN envoys “to discuss progress in Somalia”, the presidency said in a statement. The UN-mandated African Union force provided...

Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal, center, Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, right, and OIC Secretary-General Iyad JEDDAH: SIRAJ WAHAB | ARAB NEWS STAFF Saudi Arabia has said that the actions of the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, cannot be equated with Israel’s mass killings. Addressing a press conference after chairing an extraordinary meeting of the foreign...

Ethiopia’s justice ministry has announced that it is bringing criminal charges ranging from “dissemination of false rumours with the intent of overthrowing the government” to “undermining public trust in the government and attempts at fostering ethnic and religious divisions” against six news weeklies. In a communiqué released on 5 August, the ministry accused the six...

Article by: AHMED THARWAT Somali foreign fighters sparked closed scrutiny from the FBI. Jewish ones? Well, who knows?  Photo: NewsArt, John Overmyer On June 3, the Star Tribune covered the issue of “foreign fighters” (“FBI fears Somalis may fight in Syria”). The article was entirely about Somali-American fighters who allegedly traveled to fight abroad in foreign...

The aim is to build a new and peaceful Somalia Mogens Jensen arriving in Mogadishu yesterday to discuss security and development issues in the embattled east-African nation (Photo: um.dk) The trade and development minister, Mogens Jensen, has agreed to send 19 million kroner in aid to Somalia to aid the government and African Union troops...

by: Maya Rao Voters streamed in and out of the Brian Coyle Center this morning to cast ballots in a competitive House race that’s likely to end either with Rep. Phyllis Kahn being elected to a 23rd term or Mohamud Noor becoming Minnesota’s first Somali-American state legislator. A campaign worker for Kahn complained about a Noor...

The security situation in the region is on the trade minister’s agenda Mogens Jensen met with 60 Danish companies and business people who are active in the region (Photo: Scanpix) by Christian Wenande The trade and development minister, Mogens Jensen, is currently in Nairobi, Kenya as part of his travels around east Africa promoting Danish...

By Fu Jing In the green highlands on the outskirts of Ethiopia’s second-largest city, Adam, more than 100 three-blade wind turbines can be seen. When the two-phase wind farm goes into full operation soon, it will become this country’s largest wind generating project. Local people are still planting crops and raising cows and horses beneath...

This brief aims at describing the ICRC viewpoint on the food security situation in Somalia. The report is based on information gathered through secondary data analysis, ICRC monthly market assessments, direct observations by ICRC field staff and interviews with key informants, among them livestock traders, FSNAU (Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit) field staff, elders...