Category: Global News & Politics

By FRED OLUOCH Insufficient troops and the growing divergence in the interests by regional countries are posing a major challenge to plans by the government of Somalia and African peacekeepers to launch a major offensive against Al Shabaab. Investigations reveal that differences in perspectives among the troop contributing countries of Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia continue to...

Food security worsens as drought looms in Somalia. Photo: FAO A United Nations human rights expert today urged the international community to “act now” to avert a humanitarian disaster in Somalia, where a widening hunger crisis has sparked fears of a repeat of the 2011 famine that devastated the war-ravaged country. “The food shortage situation...

By Kate Lyons An Indonesian girl has been reunited with her family 10 years after she was swept away by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, her mother claims. Four-year-old Raudhatul Jannah and her seven-year-old brother were separated from their parents while holding onto a floating piece of wood in the tsunami waters, when it hit...

Kenya has agreed to Somalia’s request to extradite a Somali citizen believed to be senior al-Shabaab member Hassan Haji Hanafi, a Somali official told Sabahi Thursday (August 7th). Somalia’s Ambassador to Kenya Mohammed Ali Nur told Sabahi that the suspect was arrested August 3rd in Nairobi’s Eastleigh neighbourhood for his alleged role in the killing of...

By Matthew Miller MASON — A 29-year-old Mason man has been charged with ethnic intimidation and assault and battery in connection with a July 19 assault on a Muslim woman at the Meridian Mall in Okemos. Jonathan Patrick Deuel was arrested Wednesday and arraigned today in 55th District Court in Mason. Meridian Township Police Lt. Greg...

By Edith Honan Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta listens to opening remarks at the start of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Session One on ‘Investing in Africa’s Future’, at the U.S. State Department in Washington August 6, 2014. Also pictured is Guinea-Bissau’s President Jose Mario Vaz (R). CREDIT: REUTERS/JONATHAN ERNST L Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, in Washington...

By Dave Lazzarino When Jibril Ibrahim came to Canada from Somalia in 1989, it was a tough transition. He had to learn the language and top up his high school credits before being able to get into university and pursue a goal of becoming a mechanical engineer. Today, Ibrahim says the situation for young Somalis...