By Katy Migiro In a 2007 file photo, a child arrives to the church for the traditional Orthodox mass for the New Year to mark the Ethiopian Millennium in Addis Ababa. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When 10-year-old Wube-Enat was asked, on the eve of her engagement party, if she knew her husband-to-be,...
October 24, 2026
Category: Global News & Politics
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No heart surgery for ailing girl
By Aarti J Narsee Today the girl and her brother will approach the Pretoria High Court to force the Steve Biko Academic Hospital to urgently admit her to its paediatric cardiology ward for “assessment and treatment” and hopefully to save her. File photo Image by: AFP Relaxnews ©Steve Cukrov/shutterstock.com The 10-day journey from war-torn Somalia to...
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China-Africa relations hurt by bad Chinese behaviour, says ambassador
Lu Xinsheng says ivory smuggling and selling counterfeit goods hurts Chinese reputation in African countries By Jonathan Kalman Oil workers for the China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corp. in South Sudan. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images China‘s foreign ministry has condemned the behaviour of some Chinese citizens in Africa following its ambassador to Tanzania giving an uncommonly frank newspaper...
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Kenya’s Catholic bishops sued after canceling lease for Muslim-run restaurant
By Fredrick Nzwil NAIROBI, Kenya — The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops is facing a lawsuit over the cancellation of a rental contract for a restaurant operated by a Somali Muslim. Al-Yusra Restaurant Ltd. had signed a six-year lease starting in 2013 to operate a restaurant in a section of Waumini House where the bishops’...
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Erdoğan lambasts Muslim world, UN over Gaza ‘genocide’
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. (Photo: DHA) Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan lashed out at the United Nations and Muslim countries for not taking action to stop a deadly Israeli aerial campaign targeting Gaza, which he said has amounted to “systematic genocide.” During a speech in front of Muslim scholars attending a meeting in İstanbul,...
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PRESS STATEMENT : Allegations by The UN Monitoring Group Report
By Hon. Fawzia Y. H. Adam Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister, Somalia Regarding Allegations by The UN Monitoring Group Report Allow me at the outset to thank you all for attending this critical press Conference to respond to the UN Monitoring Report False Allegations. It has come to my attention once more that...
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Muslim girl spat at and racially abused in Bristol city centre – and no one came to help
Muslim girl was spat at in Corn Street in Bristol ATEENAGE girl walking home from school through Bristol’s city centre was spat at in one of the busiest streets in the centre – a place where she should have been safe. And while the incident took place, leaving the 17-year-old feeling humiliated, nobody stopped to...
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Lawyer for detained Ethiopia bloggers challenges detention
The six members of the blogging collective Zone Nine and three journalists were arrested in April and accused by the government of unspecified “serious crimes“. File photo. Image by: SUHAIB SALEM / REUTERS The lawyer for a group of detained Ethiopian bloggers and reporters said Thursday he was filing a civil suit against the country’s police...
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IN KENYA, SOMALIS AT REFUGEE CAMP LANGUISH WITH LIMITED OPTIONS
By Kate Linthicum At night he dreams of the sea. As a young man, Noor Hassan Shanglo spent years working on cargo ships that carried apples and oranges from South Africa to ports across Europe and the Middle East. He fell in love with the blue waves and the bright streets of Sicily, Durban and...
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Mubadala signs cooperation deal with Somalia
Abu Dhabi, Mubadala Petroleum has signed a cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of the Federal Republic of Somalia. During the first half of 2014, a high level engagement took place between the UAE and the Federal Government of the Republic of Somalia and its territories to consider ways in which...