Category: Global News & Politics

U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. The Justice Department has accused a group of five people, some in the U.S., of one count of conspiracy and 20 counts of providing material support to the terrorist group Shabab. (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg) By Michael Muskal Three people have been arrested and two are being sought...

Saado Ali Warsame was shot to death by members of the Shebab insurgent group in Mogadishu Saado Ali Warsame … Murdered. Photograph: Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP The prominent Somali singer-songwriter turned politician Saado Ali Warsame was shot dead Wednesday in the capital Mogadishu in the latest attack by Shebab insurgents against the government, police and witnesses...

Innes Bowen’s study reveals how the government’s attitude towards British Muslims has been defined in part by ignorance Christopher Bellalgue i The minaret of Birmingham Central Mosque. Photograph: Martin Godwin Along with the “Trojan Horse” controversy about the imposition of a strict Islamic ethos on a number of Birmingham schools, the disclosure that several hundred...

By Shukri Mohamed in Mogadishu Imports of qat into Mogadishu from Kenya have soared in recent weeks, ever since the British government implemented a ban on the stimulant last month. Prior to the ban, the United Kingdom was Kenya’s biggest export market for qat, known locally as miraa. Now, Kenyan qat traders have diverted most...

The Federal Government of Somalia has taken another step in joining the international community, appointing an ambassador to the United States and opening an embassy in Washington. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud shake hands before a meeting. (May 3, 2014.) The Federal Government of Somalia has taken another...

An Ethiopian was sentenced to seven months in jail for trafficking khat to China, marking the first such case in the country, which classed the plant as an illegal drug this year. The verdict was handed down earlier this month by the Intermediate People’s Court of Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province. The defendant,...

Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed tells international donors to be more accountable and work more closely with the government. James Brownsell Somalia’s Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed: ‘We have to allow our citizens to feel safe’ [James Brownsell/Al Jazeera] Mogadishu, Somalia – A country whose very name is almost enough of an introduction, Somalia’s reputation of unfathomable violence...

By Joseph Akwiri Mombasa – Gunmen killed at least four people and injured several others in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa on Sunday, police said. Witnesses said gunmen went on a shooting rampage on the edge of Kenya’s second-largest city and scattered leaflets saying the attack was retribution for last month’s raid on Mpeketoni,...

By Geoffrey Mosoku and Cyrus Ombati Muslim leaders have pressed the Government to lift the dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed in Lamu County. The leaders have argued that the timing will affect Muslims observing the holy month of Ramadhan. Yesterday, the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (Supkem) said the hours between 6.30pm and 6.30am, when the curfew...