Sweden had biggest number of persons granted protection status Malta granted protection to 665 Somalis, 550 Eritreans and 270 Syrians among other migrants last year, figures issued by Eurostat show. The Somalis amounted to 41 per cent of the total number of migrants granted protection. Eurostat said the EU28 Member States granted protection to 135...
UK Khat ban likely to create innovative black market for drug
By Neil Carrier In a few days the 60 year old legal importation into the UK of the stimulant substance known widely as khat will be brought to an end, as the substance is added to Class C of the Misuse of Drugs Act. While its earliest importation was of relatively small quantities sold in...
Murdered Essex student was ‘targeted’ for being Muslim, police fear
Detectives are investigating whether the victim, named locally as Nahid al-Manea, was attacked for wearing an Islamic robe and head-scarf Police search the scene at Salary Brook Trail in Colchester Photo: PA By Oliver Duggan A Saudi Arabian student stabbed to death in Essex may have been targeted because she was a Muslim, it has been...
Were raids ethnic and political? Experts differ
Mr Salim Dyana, one of the two suspects arrested Wednesday, June 18, 2014 over Mpeketoni attack that left at least 60 people dead. The suspect is alleged to have been hired as a driver in one of the vehicles used by the attackers. Photo | SAMUEL BORN MAINA By PATRICK MAYOYO Security experts are divided...
Uganda beefs up security at all borders
Uganda Police Defence Force military take a patrol near the eastern border with Kenya. Security has been beefed up at all border crossings into the country as the threat of terrorism heightens. File By Joseph Omolo, Felix Warom Okello, Martin Okudi & Robert Muhereza Security has been beefed up at all border crossings into the country...
Kenyan police arrest suspects after attack
Kenyan police officers walk past a bonfire used to barricade a main road after unidentified gunmen recently attacked the coastal Kenyan town of Mpeketoni (Reuters) Kenyan police have arrested several suspects amid high political tension, in the wake of twin massacres on the coast, claimed by Somalia’s Islamist Shabab, but blamed by the president on...
Al-Shabaab Contradicts Kenyatta Claim in Kenyan Coast Attack
By Mohamed Sheikh Nor and David Malingha Doya Somalia’s al-Shabaab militant group contradicted Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta by saying its fighters were responsible for attacks on the East African nation’s coast that left at least 58 people dead. “The mujahedeen forces carried out two consecutive attacks on two settlements near Lamu, one was Mpeketoni and...
Ra’iisul Wasaaraha Soomaaliya iyo Madaxweyne ku-xigeenka Kenya oo ka wada hadlay arrimo ay kamid yihiin qaxootiga Soomaalida Kenya
Warsaxaafadeed Ra’iisul Wasaaraha Soomaaliya Mudane Cabdiweli Sheekh Axmed oo magaaladda Nairobi ee dalka Kenya u jooga ka qayb-galka kulanka 99-aad ee dalalka ku bohoobay African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States , laguna soo gaabiyo (ACP) ayaa magaaladda Nairobi kulan dheer kula qaatay Madaxweyne ku-xigeenka dalka Kenya Mudane William Rutto iyagoo ka wada hadlay arrimo...
Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka aan idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah: Madaxweynaha Soomaaliya oo la filayo in uu maanta gaaro Sh/Dhaxe xili halkaasi hore ay u joogeen xubno uu horkacayo Geeddi, Qarax ka dhacay gudaha isbitalka Keysaney ee waqooyiga Muqdisho iyo warar kale. Warka oo dhan hoos ka dhegeyso
Indian teenager is worshipped because he has a seven inch TAIL – but may need it removed as he’s unable to walk
By Emme Annes An Indian teenager is worshipped as a god because he has a 7ins ‘tail’. Arshid Ali Khan, 13, has become a divine symbol in the state of Punjab. Locals have hailed him a reincarnation of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman – and refer to him as Balaji. An Indian boy – Arshid...
