A barefooted little boy who has just arrived in Kakuma refugee camp, north-western Kenya, from South Sudan, runs with a suitcase on his head, trying to keep up with registration procedures. Photo: OCHA/Gabriella Waaijman The United Nations refugee agency today denounced as “scapegoating” the Kenyan Government’s decision earlier this week to order some 50,000 refugees,...
November 14, 2026
Category: News
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No one from Somali community attends police bid to explain stop and search
POLICE officers attended an Easton neighbourhood forum meeting to explain their powers to stop and search – but no-one from the Somali community attended. There have been recent reports of tensions between police and the local Somali community – especially after an incident at Stapleton Road’s Star Cafe. Police apologised after officers demanded to see...
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka aan idiin heyno waxaa maanta ka mid ah:Xaalada degmada Ceelbuur oo degan iyo hawl-galo halkaasi ay ciidanku ka sameeyeen, Baydhabo oo maanta lagu doortay Madaxweynihii labaad ee halkaasi looga dhawaaqay iyo warar kale
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Kenya: Plan to Force 50,000 Refugees Into Camps
Nairobi ( HRW) – The Kenyan authorities should reconsider a new plan to forcibly move 50,000 registered refugees and asylum seekers from cities to overcrowded and underserviced refugee camps, Human Rights Watch said today. News media reported that Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Ole Lenku made the announcement on March 25, 2014, two days after unidentified...
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Kenya: United States to Help Secure Kenya-Somalia Border
The US government will assist Kenya in securing its border with Somalia, following a request by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, US Ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec said Tuesday (March 25th). “We realise it is hard to secure the very long and difficult border stretch. We will ensure it is done and deal with the underlying...
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Somalia May See Shell Return in 2015 as Soma Tests Waters
By Eduard Gismatullin Somalia is conducting offshore surveys in hopes of attracting explorers including Royal Dutch Shell Plc two decades after the outbreak of a bloody civil war drove foreign investors away. The East African country plans to hold a licensing tender next year after Soma Oil and Gas, funded by Russian billionaire Alexander Djaparidze, completes...
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Kuwait, Somalia discuss ways to boost bilateral relations
First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah with Somali Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Abdirahman Duale Beileh KUWAIT,(KUNA) — First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah met with Somali Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Abdirahman Duale Beileh on the sidelines of...
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka aan idiin heyno waxa maanta ka mid ah:Degmada Ceelbuur oo ay gacta ku dhigeen ciidanka dowlada Soomaaliya iyo AMISOM, qarax ka dhacay Kismaayo iyo warar kale
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SOMALI MILITANTS LOSE TOWN TO AFRICAN UNION TROOPS
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — African Union troops in Somalia say they have captured a town previously controlled by al-Shabab, extending a string of recent victories against the al-Qaida-linked militants. The African Union Mission in Somalia said in a statement Wednesday that the town of Eel Buur in Galgaduud region had been taken from al-Shabab after...