Heavy fighting has broken out near the presidential palace in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. Gunfire and explosions can be heard and suspected Islamist militants are attacking the palace from two directions, witnesses told the BBC. The BBC’s Mohammed Moalimu says President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is not at the palace. The al-Qaeda-aligned al-Shabab group lost control of...
IT is ironical the cantonment in Abuja where a blast killed and injured people in a 2010 pre-New Year revel is named Mogadishu after the capital of Somalia, which has had no central government since General Mahammad Siad Barre was over thrown in 1991. Scores of secessions saw to disintegration of a territory Ethiopians, French,...
by MATT SEPIC Somali-Americans rally in Minnesota in 2012, after the only bank that supported the money-exchange system called hawala withdrew from those transactions. Other banks eventually stepped in to fill the demand, but one of the last to facilitate the transfers plans to stop doing so at the end of the month.Jim Mone/AP Somali-Americans may...
Eamon Bradley from Derry on horseback in the Middle East BY MICHELLE SMYTH A man from Northern Ireland who joined a Syrian rebel group has said that Islam saved him from destroying his life with drugs. Eamon Bradley from the Creggan area of Londonderry told his family he was going on holiday to Turkey a...
Yemen Unlawfully Deported Andargachew Tsige, Concerns over Possible Mistreatment (London) – An exiled Ethiopian opposition leader unlawfully deported by Yemen back to Ethiopia is at risk of mistreatment including torture. Andargachew Tsige is secretary-general of Ginbot 7, a banned Ethiopian opposition organization, and was convicted and sentenced to death in absentia in separate trials in Ethiopia in 2009 and...
Saudi Gazzette Editorial At a time when Kenya is at war with terrorism, the last thing that it needs is to go to war with itself. Nairobi’s intervention in neighboring Somalia helped to oust the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab from much of the territory it had seized. However as regular armies the world over have always...
By Eric Roper and Maya Rao Legal challenges are mounting in a contentious state house race that has divided Minneapolis‘ Somali community. Rep. Phyllis Kahn’s campaign filed a petition with the state Supreme Court Monday alleging that acity election judge was biased toward Kahn’s opponent, Mohamud Noor. The filing comes just days ahead of a hearing on the eligibility...
Reuters / Adrees Latif After refusing to meet for drinks with the head of the Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus Foundation, the organization told the Hispanic student she was not eligible for a scholarship given she was Muslim, the young woman claims in court. Moriah Elusta has sued the Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus Foundation (ILLCF) and...
By GALGALO BOCHA Attackers who butchered more than 10 men at Hindi killed their victims depending on their ages. According to eyewitnesses, they killed men because “they will one day join the military, go to Somalia to kill and rape” their women. “They removed girls’ trousers to check their genitals and establish if indeed they...
An unidentified severely malnourished Somali refugee child rests inside a ward at the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital at the Dagahale refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border. File photo. Image by: THOMAS MUKOYA / REUTERS War-torn Somalia is sliding back into an acute hunger crisis with parts of the capital facing emergency levels just...