By Paul Richardson and Hans Nichols Somalia expects to complete an assessment of its oil and gas potential this year as security gains in the battle against al-Qaeda militants enable foreign investors to return, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud said. Seismic studies are being conducted onshore and off the coast of the Horn of Africa nation....
By Paul Richardson and David Malingha Doya Kenya is determined to do whatever it takes to eradicate al-Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia to prevent EastAfrica’s biggest economy from becoming enmeshed in fighting a Nigeria-type insurgency, President Uhuru Kenyatta said. The government is boosting spending on security after decades of “severe underinvestment” and wants to work more...
By Ismail A Mohamed Politics and Politicians change with circumstances but pervasive lack of leadership among Somalia’s political elite is a prevalent trend. There is no cohesive and coherent grass roots level of civil society to fill the power vacuum of the Somali peculiar situation. The incumbent president Hassan Sheikh symbolizes predicament; he was selected...
By MERON AHADU AND LULIT MESFIN When Secretary of State John F. Kerry traveled to Ethiopia last year, he met a young blogger named Natnael Feleke. When he returned a few months ago, Kerry found that Feleke, along with five other bloggers and three journalists, had been arrested — the latest in a long line of...
By Kyle Potter MINNEAPOLIS — In a neighborhood dubbed “Little Mogadishu,” Mohamud Noor can’t walk more than a block without being stopped by someone who wants to shake his hand. Juggling two cell phones and a stack of campaign fliers, he chats them up on his bid for a seat in Minnesota’s House of Representatives....
Mogadishu – Three suspected Shebab Islamic militants were executed by firing squad in Mogadishu on Sunday, Somali police said. All three had been condemned to death for murder, police chief Abdi Mohamed told AFP, with one of the men allegedly taking part in an assault on the presidential palace last month. The executions come three...
Berlin (AFP) – Israel eavesdropped on US Secretary of State John Kerry during doomed peace talks with the Palestinians last year, German news weekly Der Spiegel reported Sunday. The article said the Israelis and at least one other secret service listened in on Kerry’s conversations as he tried to mediate, in a development that Der...
By Mia De Graaf The BBC has enraged Muslim staff after holding a hog roast to celebrate the Commonwealth Games – under the windows of the Arabic TV service. An entire pig was spit-roasted in the courtyard of New Broadcasting House, central London, with wafts of meat drifting up to the predominantly Muslim office. Staff...
The Labour leader launches attack on the PM as Lib Dems fall out over ‘frequently irresponsible’ tweets of party whip By Mark Leftly David Cameron and Ed Miliband launched into a bitter public row over the situation in Gaza last night, even as Israel continued its offensive into the territory. The Labour leader accused the...
BY AARON MAASHO AND PASCAL FLETCHER U.S. President Barack Obama signs into law S. 517, Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, August 1, 2014. CREDIT: REUTERS/LARRY DOWNING Ask Major-General Wayne W. Grigsby Jr., the top U.S. military officer in Africa, how he thinks U.S. and...