(Image: Olivier Grunewald) IT’S a volcano, but not as we know it. This cerulean eruption takes place in the Danakil Depression, a low-lying plain in Ethiopia. The volcano’s lava is the usual orange-red – the blue comes from flames produced when escaping sulphuric gases burn. French photographer Olivier Grunewald creates such images without using colour...
November 14, 2026
Category: News
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Al-Qaeda-Linked Militants Leave Kenya Dazed as Attacks Increase
By Ilya Gridneff More than two years after Kenya sent troops to neighboring Somalia to fight al-Qaeda-linked militants, it’s now battling to contain intensifying attacks by suspected Islamist insurgents on its home soil. A series of bombs that struck the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and the coastal town ofMombasa this month was followed by a threat by the al-Shabaab...
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UN and international partners call for resolution of Somali political crisis
A policeman directs traffic at a checkpoint in downtown Mogadishu, Somalia. UN Photo/Tobin Jones The United Nations, the European Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) today issued a joint appeal for a resolution of the political crisis in Somalia, adding that they stand ready to hold to account anyone who poses an obstacle...
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka aan idiin heyno waxaa ka mid ah: Dowlada Soomaaliya oo diiday ka qeyb galka shir 3 geesood ah oo ka dhci lahaa wadanka Kenya, dagaalo ka dhacay qoryoolay oo dad ajnabi oo ka tirsanaa Al Shabab lagu dilay iyo warar kale. WardheerNews
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War Saxaafadeed: Dabaaldegga Maalinta Dawlad Goboleedka Jubaland
Mac-hadka Harumarinta Jubaland, Jubaland Development Institute (JDI), ayaa qabtay shir-telefoon balaaran (teleconference) maalintii Sabtida ee bisha May 24keedii. Shirka waxaa gudoominiyay Madaxwayne ku xigeenka koowaad ee Dawlad Goboleedka Jubaland General Cabdullaahi Sh Ismaaciil Fartaag oo Khadka Telefoniga ah kaga jiray Magaalada Doolow ee Gobolka Gedo. Waxaa sidoo kale khadka telefonka kaga qayb qaadanayay, madax sare...
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Visa pushes for more access to barely-tapped Ethiopia
BY RICHARD LOUGH Visa Inc., which is piloting Ethiopia’s first international debit card, is seeking to persuade the government to ease tight restrictions on banks in an effort to boost the use of electronic payments. Ethiopia has one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies but few people in the Horn of Africa nation of 90 million have bank accounts and...
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Muslim group sues Canadian PM
Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa May 13, 2014. REUTERS/Chris Wattie Ottawa – A Muslim organization on Monday sued Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his spokesman for libel for linking the group to Hamas, which Canada lists as a banned terrorist...
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White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite marries ruthless terror chief on the run in lawless Somalia
By Russell Myers, Stewart Whittingham Lewthwaite’s third marriage means she will be offered better protection by her new husband’s heavily-armed relatives as security agencies step up the hunt for her Secrecy: Lewthwaite pictured in 2008 Hunted White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite has got married to a ruthless terror chief while on the run in lawless Somalia....
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I am a British citizen – not a second-class citizen
Coming through passport control is an ordeal, I am followed on the street and hassled by security services. Not all citizens enjoy the same rights By Jamal Osman If you are British and think that every British citizen enjoys the same rights, my story and those of thousands of others should convince you otherwise. I...
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka aan idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah: Qarax maanta dagmada Hilwaa lagula eegtay AMISOM, Ciiddanka dowladda Soomaaliya oo hawlgallo ay ka sameeyeen Muqdisho dad ku dilay kuwa kalen ku qabtay iyo warar kale. Warka oo dhan hoos ka dhegeyso