Category: Global News & Politics

Bristol council is helping people in the community to adjust to government’s decision to make khat illegal ILLEGAL IN THE UK: A Somali man chewing khat at a social gathering HEALTH WORKERS and council officials in Bristol are working with the city’s Somali community to help it deal with the recent ban on the drug...

By Paul Richardson Djiboutian opposition leader Abdourahman Boreh blamed his rivalry with President Ismail Omar Guelleh for the government’s decision to cancel DP World (DPW)’s concession at the country’s port. Boreh, a presidential candidate in elections in 2011, also denied any wrongdoing during his tenure as chairman of the Djibouti Ports and Free Zones Authority. Djibouti’s...

Ultra-nationalists face difficult choice between ‘enemy’ networks but most people seem only to care about not missing the game Patrick Kingsley Egyptian football fans are watching the Holland v Argentina semi-final in a bar in Cairo. Photograph: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images Egyptian football fans are in a fix: they are forced to choose between watching the World...

By Charles Onyango-Obbo Once you have to negotiate with a pirate, it means he has the possibility to set his price for the release of hostages and ship I just love our Somali brothers and sisters. On Tuesday, South Africa’s National Defence Force Intelligence Division offered what has been described as a “blunt” assessment of the...

Omar Hasan is wanted in connection with the 2012 murder of a 21-year-old law student at the Kødbyen nightclub Sekyere was studying law at the University of Copenhagen before he was fatally stabbed (Photo: Facebook) The Danish government has issued a formal request to to Somaliland authorities to hand over a citizen suspected of a...

Refugees in Nairobi are appealing against a controversial ruling that would force thousands of Somalis from their homes to live in squalid overcrowded camps in north Kenya, Amnesty International said today. “This outrageous ruling affects the entire refugee population of Nairobi. Using the pretext of protecting national security, the Kenyan authorities have cracked down on...

y 11, 2014 at 6:59am The attack occurred Thursday night at Pandanguo village, where six people were killed and houses torched two weeks ago/FILE NAIROBI Kenya, A fresh attack was reported in Lamu on Friday, barely hours after police boasted of a major breakthrough when they arrested two suspects of Somali origin. The attack occurred...

A map showing Shabelle Province, Somalia.  GOOGLE MAPS A Mombasa-bound ship has run ashore near a small seaside village in Shabelle Province, Somalia. MV Semlow had dropped off cargo in Mogadishu and was sailing back to Mombasa when it experienced technical problems. It drifted towards the village that is about 120 kilometres east of Mogadishu,...

The Ethiopian authorities must halt their continuing onslaught on dissent, Amnesty International said today, after the arrest of four more opposition party members this week, who are believed to be at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. All four were arrested on 8 July in the capital Addis Ababa and the northern city of Mekele...

Somali soldiers stand guard at the main gate of the presidential palace in Mogadishu, July, 9, 2014. By Dan Joseph Somali government radio says Tuesday’s attack on the presidential palace was led by a man who had access to the compound and had passed information to militant group al-Shabab. Radio Mogadishu identified the suspect by...