By Luke Oluoch wanga on target as Banadir falls (Photo: www.voiceofsports.net) A marauding El Merreikh side found their groove in the ongoing CECAFA Kagame Cup games after thrashing Banadir 4-0 in a one sided match played at Nyamirambo stadium in Kigali starting 1400 hours. Allan Wanga, Ahmed El Basha, Malian Mohamed Traore and Serge Wawa...
October 24, 2026
Category: Global News & Politics
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UAE issues travel warnings for South Sudan, Afghanistan and Somalia
ABU DHABI // The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued travel warnings for South Sudan, Afghanistan and Somalia on Sunday. The authority advised Emiratis to avoid travelling to the countries due to ongoing “security situations”. MoFA took to its official Twitter account to spread the message. “We warn Emiratis from travelling to Somalia, Afghanistan and South Sudan due...
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A MUST WIN FOR EL MERREIKH
by Andrew Oryada Sudanese League Champions El merreikh need to bag maximum points when they face Somalia’s Banadir FC in a Group C match as the 2014 Cecafa Kagame Club Championship enters Day 4 today. The star studded El merreikh side lost their opening match 1-0 to Police FC of Rwanda last Saturday. “We have reorganized...
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Government faces Supreme Court ire over Indians held captive by Somali pirates
Harish V. Nair Somalian pirates have held the Indian seamen hostage since 2010. Concerned at the external affairs ministry’s failure to secure the release of seven Indian seamen held captive by Somali pirates since 2010, the Supreme Court has questioned on why there is no arrangement with that country to handle such incidents. Many...
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Djibouti’s Telecom shock KCCA
by Usher Komugisha Telecom of Djibouti secured a 2-1 victory against Ugandan champions KCCA in their opening game at the ongoing Cecafa Kagame Cup on Sunday afternoon at the Amahoro Stadium in Kigali. A 44th-minute goal from Mustapha Mohamed gave the Djibouti side a 1-0 lead at half time before KCCA’s William Wadri equalised in the...
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Somali president calls on diaspora to denounce al-Shabaab
By Mukhtar Ibrahim Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud speaks to the crowd at Northrop Auditorium. Mukhtar Ibrahim/For MPR News Standing in the same place he did a year and a half ago, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud urged Somali-Americans gathered Saturday night at the University of Minnesota’s Northrop Auditorium not to raise money for al-Shabaab,...
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Erdogan wins Turkey’s first presidential election
BY NICK TATTERSALL AND TULAY KARADENIZ Supporters of Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan celebrate his election victory in front of the party headquarters in Ankara August 10, 2014. CREDIT: REUTERS/UMIT BEKTAS Tayyip Erdogan secured his place in history as Turkey’s first directly elected president on Sunday, sweeping more than half the vote in a result his...
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‘Please don’t shoot me’: Evidence of a summary execution in Gaza
Members of a family in Khuza’a say an Israeli soldier shot their relative point blank as he waved a white flag, tried to negotiate exit of women and children from home Raghad Qudeh stands outside her uncle’s home in Khuza’a where she says an Israeli soldier executed him on 25 July (MEE/Mohammed Omer) By Mohammed...
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Can ethnic democracy in Kenya succeed where Bill of Rights failed?
By Makau Mutua Democrats like to imagine that core human identities – like race, ethnicity, tribe, and gender – can be vanquished by a culture of individual rights. Post-modern and post-colonial theorists – of which I am a version – argue that these “core” identities shouldn’t be “essentialised”. The point is that there isn’t a...
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Turks vote in 1st direct presidential election
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turks were voting in their first direct presidential election Sunday, a watershed event in the 91-year history of a country where the president was previously elected by Parliament. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has dominated Turkey’s politics for the past decade, is the strong front-runner to replace the incumbent, Abdullah Gul,...