Rania Badawy of the private satellite station Tahrir hung up on Ethiopia’s ambassador to Cairo during a live call-in over the contested Grand Renaissance Dam Ayat Al-Tawy Egyptian broadcaster Rania Badawy An Egyptian broadcaster has been suspended for arguing with Ethiopia’s ambassador to Cairo during a live TV phone-in about Addis Ababa’s ongoing Nile dam...
November 15, 2026
Category: News
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Cannabis look-alike puts man in jail
A 28-year-old Somali was today jailed for nine months and fined €700 for trying to give ‘weed’ to Danish tourists – even though it eventually turned out that the substance was not cannabis. Quoting case law, Magistrate Natasha Galea Sciberras said that the fact that the substance was not actually cannabis was irrelevant. What mattered...
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Kenyan killings deepen divide between government and opposition
Kenya’s veteran opposition leader, Raila Odinga, has called for national dialogue and a timetable for the withdrawal of Kenyan troops from Somalia, hours after a fresh attack on the coast killed five people. Kenyan Red Cross workers carry a body of a victim killed in an attack outside the village of Witu Raila Odinga, who...
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka aan idiin heyno maanta waxaa ka mid ah:Beesha Hawiye oo sheegtay in ay go’aan ka qaadatay dowlada Soomaaliya kadib hishiiskii Maamulka KG ee shalay ka dhacay Muqdisho, 20 ruux oo rashiin ay cuneen ku sumoobay oo Muqdisho lasoo gaarsiiyay iyo warar kale.
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Stimulant khat banned as illegal class C drug in UK
Possessing khat, a plant used as a stimulant by Somali communities, has been made illegal in the UK. The ban comes after members of Cardiff’s Somali community previously called for khat to be outlawed while others say it does not have a negative effect. But opponents to the ban say alcohol has a wider effect...
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Kenya: Toxic Lead Threatening Lives
Nairobi, – Thousands of people in a poor urban district outside Mombasa face serious health consequences from toxic lead from a battery recycling plant, Human Rights Watch said today. The crisis is the result of the Kenyan government’s failure to adequately regulate the lead smelter in the Owino Uhuru district. Human Rights Watch released a...
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I love Kagame more than my president -Somalia ambassador
By staff writer newsdesk@greatlakesvoice.com Kigali, Rwanda- Somalia`s envoy to Rwanda has expressed his love of President Paul Kagame saying “I wish he was Somalia’s President.” Cabdullahi Sheikh Maxamed, speaks more of Kagame than the country and the President he represents. Ambassador Cabdullahi told Great Lakes Voice in an exclusive interview at his offices in Kigali...
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MN measles outbreak traced to single child in Somali community fearful of vaccine myth
By Scott Kaufman [Image via AFP] A new study published in the journal Pediatrics identified Patient Zero in the new measles epidemic as a 30-month-old child from Minnesota who had recently traveled to Kenya. The unvaccinated child of Somali descent lived within an immigrant community in Minneapolis that had a low rate for measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination, and contracted the...
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Qat ban: UK police officers told to use their discretion in enforcement
Policing the ban on the mild herbal stimulant, used by Somali, Yemeni and Ethiopian people in the UK, poses challenges Alan Travis It will be illegal to possess qat (also known as khut, khat, kat, qut or xat) in the UK from Tuesday, but it will be difficult for police officers to enforce the rule....
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Dowladda Mareykanka Waxay soo dhaweyneysaa Shirka Baydhaba ee Heshiiska Saddexda Gobol lagu Ansaxiyay
War Saxafadeed Ergeyga gaarka ah dowladda Mareykanka u qaabilsan Arrimaha Soomaaliya (SRS) James P. McAnulty ayaa soo dhoweyyey 23da June Saxiixa Heshiiska dhexmaray maamulada Saddexda iyo Lixda gobol ee Koonfur Galbeed, si loo meel mariyo xalka dhismaha maamlka saddexda gobol ee Bay, Bakool iyo Shabeelada Hoose ee koonfurta Soomaaliya. Dowladda Mareykanka waxay ku ammaaneysaa hoggaanka...