Scores of resident gathered in Church Road to contest the ban Myron Jobson Members of the Somali community in Willesden have divided over new laws which will make the use of khat illegal in the UK. Police offiers were on hand to answer questions about the khat ban which will be enforced from Tuesday Supporters...
Somalia war exported across East Africa as Al Shabaab wreaks havoc
By DANIEL K. KALINAKI The EastAfrican A week ago, Mpeketoni was a small, sleepy town near Lamu Island on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coastline. Today it is at the heart of a loud argument about the changing face of terrorism and extremist violence in Kenya and the wider East African region. Gunmen swept through Mpeketoni on...
Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka aan isiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah: Wariye Yuusuf Abuukar Axmed Keynaan oo maanta Muqdisho lagu aasay xili saakay miino gaarigiisa loogu xiray ay sababtay geeridiisa, Haween lagu laayay duleedka Marka iyo warar kale. Warka oo dhan hoos ka dhegeyso [/audio
Wasiirka Arrimaha Dibadda Soomaaliya oo kula kulmay Istanbul dhiggiisa Turkey, kana qeybgalay Xaflad qalin jabin.
Istanbul, Wasiirka Arrimaha Dibadda iyo Dhiirigelinta Maalgashiga H.E. Dr. Abdirahman Dualeh Beileh ayaa kula kulmay Magaalada Stanbul dhiggiisa dalka Turkey H.E. Dr. Ahmet Davutoğlu oo ay ka wada hadleen xiriirka taariikhiga ah ee labada dal ka dhaxeeya , iskaashiga iyo xaaladihii ugu dambeeyay Soomaaliya, gobolka bariga Afrika iyo isbadalada ka soconaya bariga dhexe . Kulankani oo looga hadlay arrimo...
Azerbaijani student attempts to commit suicide as protest against Somali events
Fuad Jafarov Baku, APA. A 20-year-old girl attempted to commit suicide. Narimanov Police Department told APA that the incident was recorded in the apartment 46, Hidayatzada Street 37a. Baku resident, student of Baku State Social-Economic College, 20-year-old Gunel Hasanova attempted to throw herself out of her apartment on the 14th floor. Hasanova was forced to change her...
Uganda opposition demands removal of army from South Sudan, Somalia
UPDF soldiers man Juba International Airport. The Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Mr Wafula Oguttu, told the Ugandan government to withdraw the country’s army from Somalia and South Sudan. Photo/FILE By Solomon Arinaitwe and Nelson Wesonga The Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Mr Wafula Oguttu, told the government to withdraw the country’s army from Somalia and...
Somali journalist killed in bomb attack
MOGADISHU: A Somali journalist died in Mogadishu Saturday after a bomb believed to have been attached to his car was remotely detonated, police and witnesses said. The victim, prominent local journalist Yusuf Keynan, was working with Mustaqbal radio, a private Mogadishu FM station, and also contributed to the Nairobi, Kenya-based UN humanitarian radio Ergo. “It...
Growing up in the world’s largest refugee camp
A Somali refugee who has spent nearly his whole life in Kenya’s Dadaab camp tells Al Jazeera what it is like. By Abdullahi Mire Thousands of Somalis fled to Dadaab camp in Kenya after the civil war that broke out in Somalia in 1991 [Reuters] One day in 1991, gunmen from the Hawiye clan attacked...
Raila should be a sport and take one for the team
A crowd looks at a scene following the night attack of June 15, 2014 in Mpeketoni, Lamu that left more than 48 people dead. PHOTO | AFP Harakat Al-Shabaab Al-Mujahedeen, the bandit group fleeing from the fierce Kenya Defence Forces in Somalia, must be reeling in shock and going crazy with frustration after this...
E&P Activity Slows In Somalia Area
By Velda Addison, Hart Energy Security, regulatory and political hurdles remain in the region. Surrounded by success stories of hydrocarbon finds in neighboring countries, the Somalia area finds itself trapped by political instability and security issues that have left investors at a standstill. Anglo-Turkish Genel Energy—no stranger to risky operations considering its presence in Kurdistan, Iraq—took...

