At least 800 Somali women were reportedly sexually abused during the first half of 2013. MOGADISHU , Somalia will be launching a major human rights awareness campaign to tackle sexual violence and child soldier recruitment in the troubled horn of Africa country. “As long as people, in particular women and children, are unaware of their rights...
Wararka aan idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah: Wafdi ka socda dowladda Soomaaliya oo maanta gaaray magaalada Marka ee xarunta gobalka Sh/Hoose iyo warar kale. Warka oo dhan hoos hoos ka dhegeyso
Mogadishu: Rival Somali regions have sent troops into disputed flashpoint zones in the north of the war-torn nation, Britain, the European Union and the United States said Saturday in a joint appeal for calm. Troops from self-declared Somaliland in the northwest and soldiers from autonomous Puntland in the northeast have moved into contested areas of the...
JEDDAH: ARAB NEW Testing of the first line of the multibillion-riyal high-speed Haramain railway system will start in six months, according to local media on Friday. The testing will take place on the line between Madinah and King Abdullah Economic City in Rabigh. Khalid Al-Suwaiket, president of the Saudi Railways Organization (SRO), said: “Work is...
BY RAYMOND BROWN A father says his Muslim daughter was served pork, despite asking for the vegetarian option at a Cambridge school. The girl, who wears a headscarf, told her father she was given the meat by catering staff at Chesterton Community College. School bosses launched an investigation into what happened, but said their findings...
By Paul O’Keeffe Detention under spurious charges in Ethiopia is nothing new. With the second highest rate of imprisoned journalists in Africa[1] and arbitrary detention for anyone who openly objects to the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) regime’s despotic iron fist, the Western backed government in Addis Ababa is a dab hand at silencing its...
THREE Somali drug dealers who admitted the machine-gun killing of a rival in Edinburgh have been jailed for life. By Rod Mills Mohamud Mohamud,left and Hussein Ali, right were sentenced yesterday [PH] Mohamud Mohamud, 30, Cadil Huseen, 23, and Hussein Ali, 26, were yesterday sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in jail for killing...
BY SYLVIA HUI LONDON (AP) — A conference focusing on rape in conflict zones ended on an upbeat note Friday, with hundreds of participants from Somalia to Kosovo encouraged by an outpouring of international support. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told participants it was time to “banish sexual violence to the dark ages and the...
Wararka aan maanta idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah: Ex Xildhibaan Salaad Cali oo dowladda ku eedeeyay dagaalka iShabeelaha Hoose, Mareykanka oo sheegay dhalinyaro haysata dhalashada waddankaasi in ay hadda ka dagaalamayaan Siriya iyo warar kale. Warka oo dhan hoos ka dhegeyso
By Jim Norton It has been hailed as the death of spelling and punctuation. But in fact texting does not affect children’s grammar and spelling, a new study has found. Researchers claim there is no evidence to suggest youngsters using textspeak – where young people miss punctuation and shorten words in messages – affected their...