By Janelle Dumalaon Somalis living in Kenya’s capital face terrorist attacks by their countrymen, but also profiling by Kenyan police. NAIROBI, Kenya — Crowds weave their way through street stands selling fruit, DVDs and textbooks. Shop owners raise rusty shutters and hip-hop music blares from motorcycles zigzagging through the pothole-ridden roads. Six people died in this neighborhood...
November 14, 2026
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NYPD hunts for man who threatened to kill Muslim teen
By Jamie Schram Muslims pray together.Photo: AFP/Getty Images The NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is hunting for a middle-aged white man who called a 15-year-old Muslim girl a “terrorist” and threatened to kill her aboard a crowded city bus in Queens, law enforcement sources told The Post. The 5-foot-7 suspect became angry at Aya Mohammad when...
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Bribery claims rock MPs’ Somalia trip
BY SADAB KITATTA KAAYA A visit by MPs to Somalia last month has run into trouble, with the Uganda police at the centre of ‘bribery’ allegations. Some MPs claim that the trip, with ‘all expenses paid’ by police, was meant to compromise the Defence and Internal Affairs committee, which plays a huge oversight role over...
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Somaliland authorities shut down independent papers
The front page of an old edition of Haatuf newspaper. A court on Thursday ordered the paper to be shut down. (Guleid Hussein) Nairobi, Police in the semi-autonomous republic of Somaliland on Thursday raided the Hargeisa offices of the independent Somali-language paper Haatuf and its sister English-language weekly, Somaliland Times, and suspended them indefinitely, according to local journalists and news...
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British and French UN workers killed in Somalia named
The pair were shot in Galkayo, on the border with Puntland The UN has identified two of its workers killed in Somalia on Monday as UK citizen Simon Davis and French citizen Clement Gorrissen. Mr Davis, 57, and his colleague Mr Gorrissen, 28, were shot after getting off a plane at Galkayo airport. The attacker...
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka aan maanta idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah :Xaalad cabsi oo soo wajahday shaqaalaha QM ee deegaannada Maamulka Puntland, Barlamaanka oo maalintii labaad ka doodaya qaadasha kaarka muwaadininimada iyo warar kale. Warka oo dhan hoos ka dhegeyso
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Hundreds of immigrant kids sent abroad to study
Hundreds of Norwegian-Somali children are being sent to study in Somalia, Kenya, Egypt and Britain, because their parents are concerned that they are struggling to prosper inside the Norwegian system, according to a new report from Norway’s Institute for Social Research. “Parents often find that their children are seen as weak learners, often because they...
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UN Seeks to Help Refugees, Asylum Seekers Held at Kenya Stadium
By David Malingha Doya The United Nations Refugee Agency appealed for access to Somali refugees and asylum seekers who have been detained by Kenyan authorities as part of an investigation into involvement in bombing threats and attacks. Police have made a “wave of arrests” since last week in raids targeting the ethnic-Somali district known as...
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I drive Muslim dead on their final journey on this earth
With 32 years of experience driving a Muslim hearse, Ibrahim proudly talks about his career saying that its all about dedication. As others may consider his job to be that of a mere driver, what they do not know is that he indirectly earns thawabs for escorting a jenaza By ThE NEw DAWN REPORTER In a...
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Senior officials voice outrage at killing of two UN consultants in Somalia
UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov. Photo: UNODC Senior United Nations officials today voiced outrage at the killing of two consultants working for the world body’s arm dealing with drugs and crime who were shot by unknown gunmen in Somalia’s Puntland region. Yury Fedotov, the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC),...