Category: Global News & Politics

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has been mired in scandal Jack Hill/The Times The United Nations has accused two advisers to the Somali president of sending arms to al-Shabaab in a shipment which arrived just weeks after the Islamist militant group’s fighters stormed a shopping mall in Nairobi last September and killed at least 64 people. One of...

Traders sell charcoal in Kismayu in May 2013. The Kenya Defence Forces has been accused of colluding with Al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia’s illegal multi-billion-shilling charcoal trade. FILE  NATION MEDIA GROUP By MUGUMO MUNENE The Kenya Defence Forces has been accused of colluding with Al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia’s illegal multi-billion-shilling charcoal trade. A damning new report...

Riyadh, An Ethiopian housemaid has hanged herself in Tabarjal province at her employer’s house, local media reported. Family members said the maid did not emerge from her room at her usual hour, prompting them to inform police in Tabarjal, who broke down the door to her room, sources told local media. The housemaid, in her...

By Makau Mutua CORD leader Raila Odinga has called on Kenya to cut and run from Somalia. Mr Odinga wants Kenyan combat troops to return home with their tails between their legs. That’s right — Agwambo would have the Kenya Defence Forces throw in the towel and flee the fight against al-Shabaab, the primitive rag...

Mogadishu – Over 350 000 people in Somalia’s war-ravaged capital are in acute need of food aid as government and charities struggle to cope, the UN warned on Saturday, with other cities also in crisis. “The food security situation has worsened as early warnings highlight drought conditions in parts of Somalia,” a report from the...

NAIROBI – The government plans to station an intelligence officer at the Self-Defense Forces base in Djibouti to deal with antipiracy operations and gather information on terrorist activities and other security matters, a source familiar with Japan-U.S. relations said Saturday. Arrangements are under way for the officer to work in coordination with U.S. military intelligence, the...

By John R. Platt Did you know there are two species of ostrich? Don’t worry if this is news to you—scientists didn’t know that for sure either until this year, when the Somali ostrich(Struthio molybdophanes) of Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti and Kenya was declared a separate species from the common ostrich (S. camelus). Previously considered a subspecies,...

By Mark Brunswick Saado Ali Warsame, a member of the Somali parliament and a well-known figure in Minnesota, was mourned Thursday after drive-by shooting. Saado Ali Warsame Photo: Farah Abdi Warsameh, Associated Press Saado Ali Warsame’s songs and poems urged unity in a country known for its tumult and division. Between the lines, they also reflected...

By Colin Berkel Tyler Anderson/National PostAn Ontario Superior Court jury had convicted Mohamed Hassan Hersi in May on charges of attempting to participate in the activities of a terrorist group and providing counsel to a person to participate in terrorist activity. (Tyler Anderson/National Post) (For National story by Stewart Bell) //NATIONAL POST STAFF PHOTO The...

Saado Ali Warsame (Photo: Somali Refugee Awareness Project) Tributes have flowed for prominent Somali lawmaker and popular singer-songwriter Saado Ali Warsame, who was gunned down in the capital Mogadishu Witnesses said armed men ambushed Warsame’s car, sparying it with bullets, as it was travelling in the south of the capital, killing her and her driver....