Detainees Describe Mistreatment, Lack of Access to UN Agency Nairobi, Kenyan authorities should immediately end ongoing harassment, arbitrary detentions, forced relocations to refugee camps, and summary deportations in a round-up operation that has affected both foreigners and Kenyan citizens. The government should also give the UN refugee agency full access to all detainees to identify...
By Ahmed Shaaban As per official statistics just released, Dubai has seen over 1,000 new Muslims at the Islamic Information Centre of the Dubai government-run Dar Al Ber Society this year so far. A senior official at the Centre said as many as 1,063 residents from different nationalities converted to Islam. Rashid Aljunaibi, Director of...
By John Brewer “My people are getting killed in Ethiopia — mothers, fathers, children. That makes me cry,” said Samira Ahmed who wipes her eyes while listening to a speaker at a rally of the Oromo community in Minnesota at the state Capitol on Friday, May 9, 2014. (Pioneer Press: Jean Pieri) More than 100...
By Gordon Brown LONDON – The kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram is beyond outrageous. Sadly, it is just the latest battle in a savage war being waged against the fundamental right of all children to an education. That war is global, as similarly horrifying...
Museveni (right) welcomes Somalia president Mohamud. PHOTO BY PPU Somalia president Hassan Sheik Mohamud has hailed Uganda for its endless support as his country struggles to restore peace and stability. He said the support showed their brotherhood. President Yoweri Museveni met and held bilateral talks with the Hassan Sheik Mohamud at State House in Entebbe today....
PHOTO | AFP Kenyan paramilitary officers perform a search on a vehicle at the entrance to the Safaricom Kasarani Stadium on April 8, 2014, where people were rounded up during a police swoop in the city’s Eastleigh area. Somalis on social media are saying that since the bus explosions in Mombasa and Nairobi last week,...
BY UMUT ERDEM Suspected al-Shabaab militants wait to be taken for interrogation in Mogadishu. AFP Photo Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said the lack of banking infrastructure in Somaliahas necessitated the provision of direct cash aid from the Turkish government to the Somali government. “No banking service is offered in Somalia,” Davutoğlu said, while emphasizing that the government...
Wararka aan maanta idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah: Shacabka Muqdisho qaarkiis oo soo dhaweeyay hadalkii Barlamanka ee ahaa in uu is casilo Madaxweynaha Soomaaliya, Saraakiisha Shabaab oo loogu Baaqay in ay Badalaan nambarada teleefanada ay isticmaalaan iyo warar kale. Warka oo dhan hoos ka dhegeyso
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A police officer in Somalia says a suicide car bomber thought to be targeting a former governor detonated his explosives in the town of Baidoa, killing at least 11 people. Mohamed Salad said at least 20 others were wounded in the Monday bombing. Salad said three soldiers were among those killed....
An African immigrant, one of the 32 from Syria and Somalia who survived from one of the deadliest migrant boat accidents which occurred on May 5 in Greek waters, arrives at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, on Monday, May 12, 2014. At least 22 people, including families trapped in a flooded cabin, drowned when...