Two people were killed when a car bomb exploded near the Somali parliament building on Saturday, a few hundred metres from the presidential compound, a lawmaker said. Police said soldiers guarding the building prevented it from reaching its target. “The suicide car bomb was targeting the parliament entrance but it was fired on from all...
Addis Ababa – Ethiopia said on Thursday it wanted to extradite the leader of an outlawed opposition group arrested in Yemen to face terrorism charges. “He is a criminal, and he definitely will have his day in court,” government spokesperson Getachew Reda told AFP. Andargachew Tsige, secretary general of Ginbot 7 – labelled a terrorist...
British Muslims urged not to travel to Syria and Iraq as fears grow over homegrown involvement in terrorism A Briton who claims he has been fighting alongside jihadist militants in Syria has told the BBC he would not return to the UK until he could raise “the black flag of Islam” over Downing Street and Buckingham Palace. The...
THE Mpeketoni killings on June 15-16 that left 65 people dead was a terrorist attack and not politically instigated, according to a report by a Coast human rights organization. The detailed, 17-page report released yesterday by Haki Africa said investigations on the ground showed that the killings were carried out by the Somali al Shabaab...
SANA’A, The Ginbot-7 Movement for Justice, Freedom and Democracy, an outlawed political organization in Ethiopia, claimed on Monday that the movement’s secretary general Andargachew Tsegie has been detained in Yemen since June 23. According to the organization’s website, Tsegie was arrested at Sana’a International Airport while in transit from Ethiopia to London. Tsegie is an...
Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab claimed responsiblity for shooting dead a lawmaker and wounding another, the latest in a surge of attacks in Mogadishu during Islam’s holy month of Ramadan. “This was a targeted assassination. We also wounded another MP and two body guards,” Shebab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP. A witness said MP Ahmed Mohamud...
US Presidential Barack Obama speaks on immigration reform in the Rose Garden of the White House on June 30, 2014 in Washington, DC. A new poll Wednesday found President Barack Obama, who is enduring a tough second term, topping a list of the worst US leaders since World War II. PHOTO/AFP WASHINGTON, A new poll Wednesday...
ONE serves a multi-cultural community with a growing number of Somali families in east Bristol. The other takes its pupils from a predominantly white, working-class neighbourhood in the south of the city. Now plans for Hareclive Academy, a high-flying primary school in Hartcliffe, to take over the running of the under-performing Barton Hill Primary School have provoked...
A senior officer of the Self-Defense Forces will take over the rotating command of the multinational anti-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia, a government source said Thursday. The Abe administration determined there are no legal problems with an SDF officer commanding troops of other countries despite Japan’s very strict rules on the use of...
BY BERNARDO VIZCAINO A woman walks past a branch of Noor Islamic Bank along Khalid Bin Al-Waleed Street in Dubai in this May 30, 2010 file photo. CREDIT: REUTERS/MOSAB OMAR/FILES Islamic banking is based on core principles of the religion. So it is striking that some banks are removing the word “Islam” from their names...