Joel Gulhane Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Abdul Muttalib will head a delegation to Addis Ababa on Monday to continue talks regarding the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Muttalib accepted an invitation from his Ethiopian counterpart Alemayehu Tegunu to discuss the “sticking points” regarding the construction of the GERD, which...
Wararka maanta ee warbaahinta Raadiyo Wardheer waxaa ka mid ah: Naafadii xooga dalka oo maanta dibadbax ay kaga cabanayaan Taliyaha Xooga dalka ka sameeyay Iridka madaxtooyada Soomaaliya iyo warar kale
By Drazen Jorgic and Joseph Akwiri (Reuters) – Kenya’s president said he would not allow places of worship to be used to radicalize young people, in the wake of a police raid on a mosque in the port of Mombasa that triggered renewed clashes with Muslim protesters on Friday. Armed officers swooped on the Masjid...
By RENATA D’ALIESIO The Globe and Mail Abdulrahman Elmi has called a group of young Somali-Canadian men to a community centre in the north Toronto neighbourhood of Rexdale. They have a lot of work ahead. The group owes its existence to the now-infamous – yet never publicly seen – video, the one in which Toronto...
By Katrina Manson Addis Ababa When former academic Hassan Sheikh Mohamud became president of Somalia in late 2012, his election was hailed as a sign of progress in a country destroyed by years of war and terrorism. The administration of the one-time university dean was the first in Somalia to be recognised internationally for more...
Wararka aan idiin heyno manta waxaa ka mid ah: Aas Qaran oo maanta loo sameeyay Marxuum Cabdirissaaq Xaaji Xussen R/wasaarihii hore ee soomaaliya, Saraakiil ka tirsan Ciidanka Dowlada oo gaaray goobihii laga saaray Al Shabaab iyo warar kale
By Frank Gardner BBC security correspondent, Djibouti The US is dramatically increasing the tempo of its military operations in the Horn of Africa in an effort to counter violent extremism, in the wake of last year’s Westgate attack in Nairobi. Missile strikes by US drones against al-Shabab and al-Qaeda leaders are “vital” and will continue,...
By Abdi Guled MOGADISHU, Somalia ( AP) – Two years ago Mohamed Aden was a shoe shiner in Mogadishu, walking the streets of the Somali capital in search of clients even as his friends attended school. Now the 12-year-old boy sits proudly among classmates. For Aden, a poor boy whose family lives in a derelict...
(Reuters) – Ethiopian Airlines is in preliminary talks with Boeing (BA.N) that could lead to an order for 10 of the U.S. planemaker’s latest model, the 777X, the airline’s chief executive said. “When the 777X comes, as soon as we can get the (production) slots we will be there,” Tewolde Gebremariam told Reuters in a...
MOGADISHU, (Xinhua) — Somali government forces backed by African Union peacekeepers pushed Al-Shabaab fighters out of an outpost in the southern town of Hagar following “surprise attack” by the allied forces. The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) said in a statement that seven of the fighters were killed in a gunfight during the battle...