By OLIVE BURROWS A section of Jubilee Members of Parliament had reportedly hatched a plot to, “tame,” Duale over his criticism of the police’s handling of the war on terror. NAIROBI, Kenya – Mandera Senator Billow Kerrow on Sunday came to the defence of the Leader of Majority Coalition in the National Assembly, Aden Duale, over...
November 14, 2026
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Muslim bus driver’s civil rights case going to trial — after her death
By Rebecca Harshbarger Stephanie Lewis, center, fought for religious freedom. The family of a Muslim bus driver who battled the MTA for years for the right to wear a head scarf at work won a major legal victory — a year after her death — when a federal judge ruled her civil rights were violated. Stephanie...
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka maanta ee Raadiyo Wardheer waxaa ka mid ah: Madaxweynayaasha Soomaaliya iyo Kenya oo kulan ku yeeshay Nairobi kana hadlay dhibka shacabka ka heysta islii, xukuumadda oo soo idleysay qeybinta gargaar ay ka waday Sh/Hoose iyo warar kale. Warka oo dhan hoos ka dhegeyso
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Death Squads in Kenya’s Shadow War on Shabaab Sympathizers
Joseph Okanga/Reuters By Margot Kiser The United States supports Nairobi’s fight against terrorists, but it’s getting very ugly. MOMBASA, Kenya—“The state wants to kill me,” the 53-year-old jihadist Abubakar Shariff Ahmed, better known as “Makaburi,” told me in late February. He said he was sure that one day he’d be gunned down by “unknown assailants”...
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Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele wins Paris marathon with new record
Ethiopian triple Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele won the 38th Paris marathon on Sunday, beating previous event records with a time of two hours five minutes and two seconds. Kenyan Flomena Cheyech won the women’s race in a time of two hours 22 minutes 41seconds. The 31-year-old 5,000m and 10,000m world record-holder ran to victory on...
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Muslim Brotherhood sets up shop in London
Egypt’s largest opposition movement has placed its media headquarters in one of London’s suburbs. By Samira Shackle Egypt’s military-led interim government has cracked down on the Muslim Brotherhood [EPA] The Muslim Brotherhood, the largest and oldest religious organisation in Egypt, has survived multiple periods of repression. But according to recent reports, it has now regrouped at...
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A taste of Addis Ababa
The home in Bulgaria area in Addis Ababa where the writer stayed during his visit. Photo/Gragory Nyauchi By GRAGORY NYAUCHI We got up at 5am to take the bus to Addis Ababa. The distance between Addis Ababa and Hawassa is 271 kilometres; time taken to get there by bus is about five hours. The landscape transformed...
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Somali leader vows to eliminate Al-Shabaab as more arrested in swoop
By Chrispinus Omar, Chris Mgidu and Njoroge Kaburo NAIROBI, (Xinhua) — Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud vowed on Saturday to eliminate Al-Shabaab militants whom he said have lost ground. Mohamud said his internationally-backed government is committed to the elimination of the Al-Qaida allied terror group and that it needs support and help from its partners....
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka aan idiin hayno waxa ka mid ah: Barlamanka Federaalka Soomaaliya oo eedayn u jeediyay Wasaaradda Arrimaha Gudaha, Ciidamo ka wada tirsan dawlada Soomaaliya oo ku dagaalamay gobalka Shabeelaha Dhaxe iyo Khasaare ka dhashay iyo warar kale. Warka oo faahfaahsan hoos ka dhegeyso
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Somali migrant jailed for attempting to abscond from Malta
Court imprisons 19-year-old migrant out of fear that he would refuse medical attention to heart problem; hands Ghanaian migrant suspended jail term for using invalid travel documents. Daniel Mizzi File photo of an asylum-seeker being held under police custody: A 19-year-old migrant has been jailed for one year for attempting to escape from Malta using...