A 15-year-old Somali boy who survived a nearly six-hour trip from California to Hawaii stowed away in the wheel well of an airplane has left protective custody in Hawaii, officials said on Saturday. The teenager was “no longer in Hawaii” according to a brief statement from Hawaii’s Department of Human Services. Officials would not reveal...
November 14, 2026
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Ethiopia to enhance support for Somalia
The premier went on to say that Ethiopia would continue to support infrastructure development in Somalia. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has pledged more support from his country to next-door Somalia, state-owned Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency reported on Sunday. According to the agency, the pledge came during a Saturday meeting between the premier and...
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Twin explosions rock Kenyan city of Mombasa
No-one has yet admitted carrying out the blast on a bus which had just arrived from Nairobi Three people have been killed and several wounded in two explosions in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa, police say. In the deadliest attack, a grenade was reportedly thrown in a bus that had just arrived from Nairobi....
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka aan idiin hayno maanta waxa ka mid ah: Qarrax Muqdisho ka dhacay maanta oo lagu dilay xoghayihii hore ee gobalka Banaadir Cabdikaafi Maxamuud Hilowle, Ra’iisal wasaaraha Soomaaliya oo maanta hor tagay Barlamanka Soomaaliya iyo warar kale. Warka oo dhan hoos ka dhegeyso
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Madaxweyne Xasan oo Kulan Kula qaatay Addis Abab Xoghayaha Arrimaha Dibadda ee Maraykanka
Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya Md. Xasan Sheekh Maxamuud oo haatan booqasho ku jooga magaalada Addis Ababa ee dalka Itoobiya, ayaa maanta la kulmay xoghayaha arrimaha dibadda Maraykanka Senator John Kerry oo isagu booqasho ku gaalaa bixinaya waddamo ka tirsan qaaradda Afrika. Labada mas’uul, ayaa lagu soo warramayaa in kulankooda ay kaga wada hadleen xidhiidhka labada...
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At least six people killed in blast in Somali capital – police
Somali soldiers stand at the scene of an explosion in the capital Mogadishu May 3, 2014. CREDIT: REUTERS/OMAR FARUK At least six people were killed in Mogadishu on Saturday, including a senior city council official, when a remotely controlled bomb planted by al Shabaab insurgents exploded on a busy street in the Somali capital, police...
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Kenya Muslim cleric, wife facing terror charges denied bail
Their arrest also came hours after a Muslim cleric was killed by unknown assailants in the seaside town of Mombasa. NAIROBI, A Kenyan court on Friday denied bail to a Kenyan Muslim cleric of Somali descent and his wife, both of whom facing terror charges after being found in possession of two hand grenades in Nairobi’s...
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UNHCR support helps end sleepless nights for struggling students in Dadaab
DADAAB, Kenya(UNHCR) –Getting a good night’s sleep was until recently almost impossible for 18-year-old Somali refugee Abdifatah, and this was affecting his studies and his marks. A student at a secondary school in Hagadera, one of the camps in northern Kenya’s sprawling Dadaab complex, Abdifatah used to share a bed in an overcrowded dormitory. “When I...
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Building Somalia’s Army in the Middle of War Print Share:
A handout picture released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team shows an armed man squatting at a beach during a demonstration by a local militia, formed in order to provide security in the town of Marka, April 30, 2014. Gabe Joselow MOGADISHU — The future of Somalia may very well hinge on its national...
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Sources: Officials have denied father of Hawaiian Airlines stowaway access to his son
By Julia Prodis Sulek SAN JOSE — Five days after the father of a teenage stowaway flew to Hawaii to reunite with his son, Hawaii social service agency officials have yet to allow the San Jose cabdriver and Somali refugee to see him, sources told this newspaper. Abdulahi Abdi Yusuf arrived in Honolulu Monday with...