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By Ciaran Fagan Stimulant: Khat will become a class C drug on Tuesday. Sellers could face 14 years in prison Police say they have encountered widespread support among Somalis for a ban on use of a plant stimulant. Officers are running an awareness campaign to spell out the consequences of buying or selling khat, which...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A nurse says a car bomb detonated outside of a hospital in Somalia’s capital run by the International Committee of the Red Cross, killing two people. Mohamed Omar also said that five people were wounded in the Wednesday attack. Omar said the dead were a doctor and a nurse. The 65-bed...

Agents from the FBI are meeting with Somali community members in Cedar-Riverside as part of an ongoing investigation. By Ethan Nelson Agents from the Minneapolis office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation are collecting information from Cedar-Riverside residents as part of an ongoing investigation spurred by recent allegations of American citizens joining Syrian rebels overseas....

Al-Shabaab’s attack on Kenya over the past two nights, in which more than 60 were killed, shows the group still poses serious threat to the region’s stability, writes Jamal Osman. By Jamal Osman Last week the UN Special Representative for Somalia, Nicholas Kay spoke at Chatham House. The talk was about the country’s successes and the difficulties...

Abdullahi Abdi (2ndL), Chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum addresses a press conference with others muslim leaders on June 17, 2014 in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. (AFP) NAIROBI: Kenya’s top Muslim leaders warned Tuesday that Islamist attacks and a harsh government response risked dividing the country along ethnic and religious lines that could trigger...

Nine journalists who were arrested on 25 and 26 April continue to be detained pending trial. When the latest detention hearing in their case was held on 14 June, a judge gave the police yet more time to complete their investigation and finally determine the charges. The nine journalists remain in jail waiting for the...

By Dean Obeidalla Win McNamee/Getty The controversial panel included two of America’s leading Islamophobes. Could you imagine a panel on Jewish issues featuring Mel Gibson? Why has hate become a part of mainstream conservatism? We saw an example of this Monday at The Heritage Foundation, a one-time quasi-respected conservative think tank. It appears that those days...

By Jason Straziuso NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s president blamed political leaders inside Kenya Tuesday for carrying out two nights of deadly attacks that killed at least 60 people in coastal communities, saying that despite claims of responsibility from al-Shabab, the Islamic extremists were not behind it. President Uhuru Kenyatta, in a nationally televised address, said...