An irrigation canal being reinforced near the Kabasa displacement site, outside Doolow in southern Somalia. The work is supported by the World Food Programme. Photo: FAO/Frank Nyakairu Urgent action is needed to prevent a worsening of the humanitarian crises in both Somalia and Yemen, senior United Nations relief officials warned today, as they urged donors to help...
October 23, 2026
Category: Global News & Politics
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CHINA BANS RAMADAN FAST IN MUSLIM NORTHWEST
BEIJING (AP) — Students and civil servants in China’s Muslim northwest, where Beijing is enforcing a security crackdown following deadly unrest, have been ordered to avoid taking part in traditional fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Statements posted Wednesday on websites of schools, government agencies and local party organizations in the Xinjiang region...
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The search for Samantha Lewthwaite
By Adam Wishart Samantha Lewthwaite was married to one of the 7/7 bombers On 22 September last year, smoke billowed over the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Troops and police ducked between buildings amidst sporadic gunfire as militants from Somalia’s al-Shabab network carried out an assault that left dozens dead. I’d landed a few...
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Mogadishu bound cargo plane crashed in Nairobi
BY PROF. DR. WOLFGANG H. THOME, ETN AFRICA Breaking news from Nairobi talk of a turboprop cargo plane, reportedly a converted Fokker 50, crashing after takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport with a full load of Miraa on board, bound for the Somali capital of Mogadishu. Though feedback is still very sketchy it is confirmed...
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French Muslim women on burqa ban ruling: ‘All I want is to live in peace’
Rights organisations and Muslim women shocked at European court ruling that France has right to ban full-face veil in public Kim Willsher A woman wears a burqa at a market in Paris despite it being banned in France. Photograph: Philippe Lissac/Photononstop/Corbis Anti-discrimination organisations have expressed shock after the European court of human rights ruled that France has...
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Kenya relocates over 2,700 refugees to camps
The Kenyan government has relocated 2,760 refugees and asylum seekers to the refugee camps in northern Kenya, while another 360 people including five refugees were deported to Mogadishu, the UN said on Tuesday. The latest report from the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Eastern Africa says the relocation or deportation of refugees...
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Al-Shabaab threatens more attacks in Mogadishu over Ramadan
A Somali soldier patrols at the Karan market in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu on June 30, 2014, after a bomb exploded. Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab has vowed to increase attacks during the fasting month of Ramadan. PHOTO/AFP PHOTO Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for a string of attacks in the capital Mogadishu and warned that...
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Kenya: Terre des hommes assists more than 19’500 Somali refugees
@tdh Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Since October 2012, Terre des hommes (Tdh), alongside 18 other main aid agencies, has been involved in a major emergency response operation in favour of Somali refugees in the North-eastern part of Kenya. According to UNHCR (2014),...
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Barking Somali women celebrate the ban of ‘family-destroying’ drug khat
Khat By Anna Silverman Almost a year after home secretary Theresa May announced she intended to ban it, khat is now an outlawed class C drug. This week, Somali women in the borough celebrated the news as they wave goodbye to the plant blamed by many for unemployment, poverty and abuse. “We’re really happy because...
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A year after Morsi, Egypt’s revolution is not over
Many have fallen for the false choice between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood, but the country’s activists are still fighting for an alternative Ha Hellyar An Egyptian court has sentenced three Al-Jazeera journalists, Australian Peter Greste, Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, and Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed, to seven years in jail for ‘aiding the outlawed...