By JEMIMAH WANGUI Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph ole Lenku said that officers from the police and Immigration Department were still scrutinising documents presented by some of the suspects for authenticity, before deciding those to be sent back to Somalia/CFM NAIROBI, Kenya – The government says 4,000 suspects have been arrested so far since the crackdown on...
November 14, 2026
Category: News
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ETHIOPIA’S BORDERLESS CYBERESPIONAGE
Chinese- and European-made spyware is enabling Addis Ababa to silence dissent by Felix Horne I met Abdi (not his real name), a 32-year-old primary school teacher from Ethiopia’s Oromia region, last July while in Nairobi. Abdi had been arrested a year earlier in his hometown for organizing a protest against local government corruption. He was already...
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UNHCR ‘concerned’ over mass Kenya arrests
The security operation was launched after explosions in a mainly Somali neighbourhood The UN refugee agency has expressed concern over the mass arrest of Somalis and other nationals in Kenya as part of a security force operation to end attacks by militant Islamists. About 2,000 people have been arrested over the past week in the...
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Human Rights Center strongly condemns the closure of Haatuf newspaper
Human Rights Center Headquarters: Hargeisa Somaliland Tel: 4008357 4/2014 Press release Human Rights Center strongly condemns the closure of Haatuf newspaper Today, 7th April 2014 about 16:00 local time, Somaliland Police with court warrant shut down the headquarters of the independent Haatuf newspaper and sister English paper, Somaliland Times. Human Rights Center...
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French, British UN workers shot dead in Somalia
Two UN anti-crime workers, one a Briton and the other a Frenchman, were shot dead Monday as they disembarked from a plane at an airport in Galkayo in central Somalia, officials and witnesses said. UN sources confirmed that the two men were international consultants with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Britain’s...
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka aan idiin hayno waxaa maanta ka mid ah: Laba sarkaal oo ka tirsan ah Shaqaalaha QM oo manta lagu dilay Galkacyo iyo warar kala duwan oo ka soo baxaayo dilkooda, Cabdiwali Gaas oo gaaray Gaalkacyo iyo warar kale. Warka oo dhan hoos ka dhegeyso
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Laba Ka mid ah Shaqaalaha Qaramada Midoobay oo lagu Dilay Garoonka Diyaaradaha ee Gaalkacayo
Gaalkacay, Abril 07, 2014 (WDN)- Laba ka mid ah shaqaalaha Qaramada Midoobay oo la sheegay in ay ajnabi ahaayeen, ayaa lmaanta lagu dilay gagida diyaaraha ee magaalada gaalkacayo. Labadan nin ayaa la sheegayaa in uu askari ka mid ah kuwa garoonkaas ka hawlagaa uu rasaas oodda kaga qaaday ka dib markii ay ka soo dageen...
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Two foreign UN workers shot dead in central Somalia: Officials
Two foreign U.N. workers were shot dead on April 7 at an airport in Galkayo, central Somalia, officials and witnesses said. A United Nations source confirmed the pair were international staff members with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). “Two white men have been shot inside the airport as they got off...
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UK. Leading maritime intelligence agency calls for urgent dialogue to prevent Somali piracy resurgence in 2015
A White Paper published today, Monday 7th April 2014, by Dryad Maritime, the UK’s leading maritime intelligence agency has outlined how a shift in US foreign policy could spark a resurgence of piracy East of Suez and in the Indian Ocean in the next 18 months. David Hunkin OBE, Commercial Director, Dryad Maritime; “With the...
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Pexco terminates oil exploration project in Somali region
BY KALEYESUS BEKELE The Malaysian exploration company, Pexco Explorations (East Africa), recently terminated its oil exploration project that it has been undertaking for the past eight years in the Somali Region of Warder-Geladi and Ferfer localities. The Kuala Lumpur-based company signed a Petroleum Production Sharing Agreement with the Ministry of Mines on October 18, 2005 to...