Andargachew Tsege, a UK national, leads the banned Ginbot 7 movement Opposition leader Andargachew Tsege has appeared on Ethiopian state television, following his disappearance from Yemen last month. His UK-based wife Yemi Hailemariam told the BBC she was shocked to see him on television. Yemen arrested Andargachew while he was in transit at Sanaa airport,...
November 15, 2026
Category: News
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Yearly iftar at the Prophet’s Mosque
HOLY TASK: For many years, citizens of Madinah have been making preparations for iftars during Ramadan by decorating the Grand Mosque and equipping it with essential supplies. MADINAH: YOUSUF MOHAMMED The Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah during Ramadan is a beautiful place where Muslims imbued with the spirit of tolerance and forbearance can be seen coming...
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Somalia Fires Security Heads After Presidential Villa Attack
By Mohamed Sheikh Nor and Michael Gunn Somalia’s government fired the country’s police commissioner and head of national security after Islamist militants attacked the presidential compound in the capital yesterday. Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab insurgents entered the compound in Mogadishu before Somali armed forces alongside African Union peacekeepers repulsed the attack, killing three of the assailants and...
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Somali troops retake presidential palace after ‘shameful attack’ by militants
By: Abdi Guled MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s government said its troops have retaken the presidential palace in the capital of Mogadishu Tuesday, after Islamic militants forced their way in and exchanged heavy gunfire with troops and guards. Loud explosions and gunfire could be heard inside the heavily fortified compound, which has been the subject of...
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Weerar Culus oo Lagu Qaaday Madaxtooyada Soomaaliya
Albaabka weyn ee Villa Somalia Rasaas culus iyo qaraxyo ayaa lagu weeraray dhismaha madaxtooyada Soomaaliya ee Villa Somalia. Dablayda weerarka qaadday ayaa la sheegay inay ka tirsan yihiin ururka al-Shabab. Warar hordhac ah oo aan helnay ayaa sheegaya ilaa ugu yaraan 6 ka tirsan ururka al-Shabab aay dhinteen, iyo tiro kale oo ka tirsan ciidamada...
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Gunmen in major attack Somalia’s presidential palace: Police
Mogadishu: Somalia’s Islamist Shebab rebels launched a major bomb attack and armed assault against the country’s presidential palace late Tuesday, penetrating the heavily-fortified complex and fighting a major gunbattle with security guards. Security sources said Somalia’s internationally-backed President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, was unharmed and safe with guards from the African Union’s 22,000-strong AMISOM force. “There...
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Somali president’s palace under attack
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...
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka aan idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah: Madaxda sare ee dalka oo xalay yeeshay kulan looga hadlayay ammaanka eedeynna isku tuu tuuray, Xukuumadda Soomaaliya oo warbaahinta ka dalbatay in ay gacan ka siiso dagaalka Shabaab iyo warar kale. Warka oo dhan hoos ka dhegeyso
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Nursed by same woman, couple face separation after 8 children
RIYADH: ARAB NEWS Another Saudi couple has been ordered to separate after more than 35 years of marriage in the wake of claims they had been breastfed by the same woman at infancy, local media said. A Yemeni woman in her 80s had told a public court in Najran that the man and wife, who...
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Remembering Mogadishu
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,...