Lu Xinsheng says ivory smuggling and selling counterfeit goods hurts Chinese reputation in African countries By Jonathan Kalman Oil workers for the China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corp. in South Sudan. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images China‘s foreign ministry has condemned the behaviour of some Chinese citizens in Africa following its ambassador to Tanzania giving an uncommonly frank newspaper...
Kenya’s Catholic bishops sued after canceling lease for Muslim-run restaurant
By Fredrick Nzwil NAIROBI, Kenya — The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops is facing a lawsuit over the cancellation of a rental contract for a restaurant operated by a Somali Muslim. Al-Yusra Restaurant Ltd. had signed a six-year lease starting in 2013 to operate a restaurant in a section of Waumini House where the bishops’...
Every day of the holy month is filled with merit, worthiness
IN OBEDIENCE OF ALMIGHTY ALLAH: Muslims give thanks to their Lord for every blessing in this blessed month and seek forgiveness of their sins. HARUN YAHYA The Muslim world is experiencing another Ramadan, a month that rains down goodness on the body and soul. By our Lord’s leave, we are fulfilling this fine observance with...
Erdoğan lambasts Muslim world, UN over Gaza ‘genocide’
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. (Photo: DHA) Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan lashed out at the United Nations and Muslim countries for not taking action to stop a deadly Israeli aerial campaign targeting Gaza, which he said has amounted to “systematic genocide.” During a speech in front of Muslim scholars attending a meeting in İstanbul,...
Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka aan idiin hayno waxa ka mid ah: Dagaal ka dhacay Jubbada Hoose iyo maamulka Jubba oo guullo ka sheegtay, Qarax lagu dilay Sarkaal ka mid ahaa ciiddanka dowlada Soomaaliya iyo Warar kale. Warka oo dhan hoos ka dhegeyso
PRESS STATEMENT : Allegations by The UN Monitoring Group Report
By Hon. Fawzia Y. H. Adam Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister, Somalia Regarding Allegations by The UN Monitoring Group Report Allow me at the outset to thank you all for attending this critical press Conference to respond to the UN Monitoring Report False Allegations. It has come to my attention once more that...
Muslim girl spat at and racially abused in Bristol city centre – and no one came to help
Muslim girl was spat at in Corn Street in Bristol ATEENAGE girl walking home from school through Bristol’s city centre was spat at in one of the busiest streets in the centre – a place where she should have been safe. And while the incident took place, leaving the 17-year-old feeling humiliated, nobody stopped to...
Lawyer for detained Ethiopia bloggers challenges detention
The six members of the blogging collective Zone Nine and three journalists were arrested in April and accused by the government of unspecified “serious crimes“. File photo. Image by: SUHAIB SALEM / REUTERS The lawyer for a group of detained Ethiopian bloggers and reporters said Thursday he was filing a civil suit against the country’s police...
IN KENYA, SOMALIS AT REFUGEE CAMP LANGUISH WITH LIMITED OPTIONS
By Kate Linthicum At night he dreams of the sea. As a young man, Noor Hassan Shanglo spent years working on cargo ships that carried apples and oranges from South Africa to ports across Europe and the Middle East. He fell in love with the blue waves and the bright streets of Sicily, Durban and...
Mubadala signs cooperation deal with Somalia
Abu Dhabi, Mubadala Petroleum has signed a cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of the Federal Republic of Somalia. During the first half of 2014, a high level engagement took place between the UAE and the Federal Government of the Republic of Somalia and its territories to consider ways in which...

