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Photo: AU-UN IST PHOTO/TOBIN JONES Residents of Lower Shabelle have again been disrupted by fighting, months after being liberated from Al-Shabab MOGADISHU, 11 June 2014 (IRIN) – Inter-clan clashes over the last week in Somalia’s southern Lower Shabelle region have killed approximately 30 and have forced over 250 to take refuge in African Union Mission in...

Despite threats, clan politics and marginalisation, some Somali women hope to change the country’s political culture. By Samira Shackle Fawzia Yusuf Adam has served as Somalia’s first foreign minister and deputy prime minister [Reuters] “I get threats, day in, day out,” says Fawzia Yusuf Adam. “Yes, it happens, but I am not afraid about what...

By Ben Spencer Mobile phones may have a significant impact on a man’s fertility, scientists think. Men who keep a phone in their trouser pocket could be exposing themselves to radiation which lowers their chance of becoming a father. Scientists at the University of Exeter found that electromagnetic radiation lowered the viability and movement of...

In this photo taken during last year’s Ramadan season, pilgrims endure temperatures rising above 43 degrees Celsius in Makkah. (AN file photo by Ahmad Hashad) JEDDAH: IBRAHIM NAFFEE Muslims should expect scorching temperatures of over 50 degrees Celsius and more than 15 hours a day of fasting in Ramadan this year. However, the hours will...

Ramola Talwar Badam DUBAI // A group of sailors have described their dramatic midnight escape after four years held hostage and tortured by a gang of Somali pirates. Barefoot, starving and terrified, the 11 men ran through the darkness for more than 10 kilometres, ducking behind low bushes to avoid recapture before they eventually reached...

Ireland best embodies the Islamic values of opportunity and justice, according to a survey by a leading US academic Ireland best embodies Islamic beliefs, according to survey Photo: Rex (file photo: County Kerry, Ireland BY Damien McElroy The Koran’s teachings are better represented in Western societies than in Islamic countries, which have failed to embrace the...

PHOTO | FILE The scene of the explosion in Gikomba market following a terror attack, May 16, 2014. It is clear that the Kenyan Government does not have military strategists who can advise it on how to minimise the cost of Kenya’s continued presence in Somalia.   NATION By RASNA WARAH Most Kenyans are not...

MOMBASA — Gunmen in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa on Tuesday shot dead an influential moderate Muslim preacher who was a vocal opponent of the radical preachings of Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked Shebab insurgents, police said. Mohamed Idris, chairman of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya, was “shot only once in the stomach” shortly before dawn...