Dar es Salaam – A former top UN envoy said Wednesday that Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab rebels will be defeated if foreign governments stay the course in backing the fragile government in Mogadishu.Speaking at Land Forces East Africa, a two-day regional defence conference and military technology exhibition, the former envoy to Somalia played down a recent...
By Joseph Burite Kenyan security forces are searching a forest near the border with Somalia for attackers who killed at least 87 people near the country’s coast over the past month. Kenya’s military destroyed at least four camps being used by the assailants in Boni Forest, the Nairobi-based Daily Nation newspaper reported, citing people it didn’t identify....
A shift in method of delivery rescued an interpretation programme for Dadaab camp inhabitants from closure SOURCE: GETTY Camp hope: places on the course will be divided among inhabitants of the Dadaab refugee camp and local residents A course developed by two universities that was intended to be delivered in a refugee camp in Kenya...
By John Lichfield In the severest sentence of its kind ever handed down in France, a former far-right local politician has been sentenced to nine months in prison for comparing a black cabinet minister to a chimpanzee. Anne-Sophie Leclère, a senior Front National municipal candidate in northern France, posted adjacent images on Facebook of a...
FILE – Muslims faithfuls carry a coffin with the body of Sheikh Mohammed Idris, chairman of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK), who was gunned down by assailants near his home in Mombasa, June 10, 2014. Mohammed Yusuf MOMBASA — Some Muslim leaders in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa have called on security officials...
Republic of Congo’s president spent almost £1million on suits and shirts in Paris shopping sprees, French investigators have reportedly found. In drawing up a list of assets, they were intrigued to discover that Mr Sassou-Nguesso spent 1.18 million euros between 2005 and 2011 on shirts and suits Photo: AFP By Henry Samuel President of the Republic...
By Sophia Sleigh Mr Thompson described some Somali women as looking like ‘proverbial herdswomen from some Saharan oasis’ (Photo: Youtube) A volunteer for Wandsworth’s school admissions panel has been dismissed after publishing an offensive blog describing Somali women as buck-toothed herdswomen from a Saharan oasis. Retired journalist Hugh Thompson, from Putney, will no longer sit on...
By Katy Migiro Suspected Somali illegal migrants and refugees arrive at a holding center after being arrested in a police swoop in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, April 7, 2014. Kenya last month ordered all Somali refugees living in urban areas to return to their camps in a bid to end attacks by Islamist militants carried out...
BY LOUIS CHARBONNEAU AND DRAZEN JORGIC Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of Somalia, addresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 26, 2013. CREDIT: REUTERS/JUSTIN LANE/POOL A United Nations panel that monitors compliance with U.N. sanctions on Somalia has accused the country’s president, a former minister, and a U.S. law firm of...
Tesco have issued an apology to Julie Cottle By Lorraine King A supermarket giant has issued an apology after a Muslim worker refused to serve a customer buying ham and wine saying he was fasting for Ramadan. Julie Cottle, has lodged a complaint with Tesco after the employee at the manned till inside the Express...