Category: Global News & Politics

JEDDAH: IRFAN MOHAMMED Pilgrims and visitors are becoming hard-pressed to find bottled Zamzam water with the influx of worshippers flocking to the Grand Mosque during Ramadan and the lack of availability at points of sale. While Zamzam water, which comes from the Zamzam well at Makkah, is available in abundance in the coolers inside the...

It’s 30 years since Ethiopia’s famine came to attention in the UK. Now, a farmer plans to sue Britain for human rights abuses, claiming its aid has funded a government programme of torture and beatings as villagers have been removed from their homes By David Smith i One of hundreds of families in the Gambella...

By Standard Editorial Kenya: Yet again, Kenya woke up to the gruesome news that criminals had once more killed over 20 people on Saturday night. These suspected terrorist attacks were in the Hindi and Gamba areas of Lamu. Indeed, this is very depressing news, especially considering that the Cabinet Secretary for the Interior has consistently...

While official UK figures show a decline in hate crime generally, anti-Muslim abuse appears to be bucking that trend. By Simon Hooper Muslims attend Friday prayers on a rainy first day of Ramadan in East London [Reuters] London, UK – The number of reported instances of anti-Muslim hate crime in the UK has risen sharply since...

MOMBASA, Kenya – Gunmen killed at least 29 people in raids on two separate areas on the Kenyan coast, the interior ministry said on Sunday. The Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab, which attacked the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi last September, said it had staged an attack on Saturday evening in the coastal area.Nine...

Special Representative for Somalia Nicholas Kay. Photo: AU/UN/IST/Ilyas Abukar Condemning this morning’s attempted attack on Somalia’s Parliament, the United Nations envoy to the country has called on all Somalis to unite with the authorities to thwart future attacks and “bring to justice those behind this murderous campaign” of terror that has intensified since the start...

By BARBARA AMONG Greek carrier SkyGreece Airlines last week began commercial flights between various European cities and Mogadishu, two years after the first major commercial airline flew into the Somali capital. The airline’s maiden Mogadishu flight from Athens was the second international carrier to enter Somalia from outside East Africa since the country descended into war....

An Ethiopian opposition leader, who was sentenced to death while in exile for plotting a coup, has been extradited from Yemen to Ethiopia, his group says. Andargachew Tsege, who is also a British national, is secretary-general of the banned Ginbot 7 movement. The Ethiopian government allegedly requested his extradition after he was arrested in Yemen...

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Friday informed the Supreme Court that Somali pirates were still holding seven Indian seafarers as hostage and that it was holding extensive talks with the new Somali regime as well as neighbours of the terror ravaged country to seek their early release. In an affidavit, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) said...