Two Kenyan soldiers transporting food supplies into Somalia were shot dead in a gunfight near the countries’ border, a senior police official said on Monday. Leonard Omolo, police commander in the coastal county of Lamu, said suspected militants ambushed the soldiers late on Sunday as they pushed their car out of mud after heavy rains...
Police guard Casablanca Club in Mombasa where some suspects were arrested during an overnight police swoop on Saturday May 24, 2014. Over 300 people were arrested in the operation that seeks to rid Mombasa of terrorist insurgents. PHOTO/KEVIN ODIT NATION By DANIEL TSUMA NYASSY Police arrested more than 300 people in night swoops on Mombasa...
By Alex Stevenson Gerard Batten stands by his call for Muslims to sign the anti-violence charter Nigel Farage faces yet more headlines about embarrassing Ukip members, after one stood by his belief that Muslims should sign a charter renouncing parts of the Koran. The party leader has vowed to remove ‘Walter Mitty’ characters from Ukip...
Convicted Somali pirates, who are serving their sentences in Dutch jails, should no longer qualify for early release if they request asylum, says junior justice minister Fred Teeven. At the moment, the pirates are released after serving two-thirds of their sentence with good behaviour, as is standard in the Netherlands. However, Teeven is planning to...
By Abdourahim Arteh DJIBOUTI-(Reuters) – A man and woman who blew themselves up in a restaurant in Djibouti on Saturday – in the first attack of its kind in the East African state – were probably Somalis, the interior minister said. The suicide bombing killed one other person – a Turkish national – in the...
Wararka aan idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah: Madaxweynaha Soomaaliya oo sheegay in uu isbadal ka dhacayo dalka Soomaaliya xili shalay shabaab ay weerareen Xarrunta Barlamaanka Soomaaliya, Wasiirkii Amniga Qaranka Soomaaliya oo xilkii iska casilay, warar kale. Warka oo dhan hoos ka dhegeyso
By Kurt Sansone Expats, mainly British residents protesting outside Castille at the discriminatory energy bills. Russian women in Malta heavily outnumber their male counterparts, a situation that is reversed in the Somali and Italian communities. Three out of every four Russian residents are women, mostly aged between 20 and 39, according to the census. The nationwide...
Think tank sets up research unit to get insight into the country’s growing multicultural population Written by Elizabeth Pears BLACK, BRITISH AND PROUD: Somali-born Olympian Mo Farah is one of the country’s most celebrated athletes DEFINING WHAT it means to be British is becoming more complicated. As the 2011 Census has made clear, the country is...
Mogadishu (AFP) – Somalia’s national security minister has resigned in the wake of a brazen attack by Shebab militants on the country’s parliament, officials said Sunday. The resignation came hours after the Al-Qaeda-linked militants set off powerful car bombs outside the gates of the parliament and a group of fighters armed with explosive vests, grenades...
Burundi troops serving with African Union in Somalia in new positions in Deynile on the northernmost outskirts of Mogadishu. UN Photo/S. Price United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his special representative in Somalia, Nicholas Kay, as well as the Security Council, today condemned an attack by suicide bombers and gunmen on the Federal Parliament, in the capital...