We must encourage education and tolerance if we are to bring about peace in the Middle East and the rest of the world By Tony Blair Technology – so much the harbinger of opportunity – can also be used to disseminate lessons of hate and division. Photograph: Getty Images The last weeks have seen a...
November 14, 2026
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Djibouti eyes energy reliance with geothermal plants
DJIBOUTI: The small African nation ofDjibouti will invest $31 million in geothermal power plants to cut reliance on imported electricity from neighbouringEthiopia, officials said. The country in the Horn of Africa has a population of less than a million people and peak demand of 70 megawatts of electricity, 65 per cent of which comes through a...
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Warnings ignored before Kenya Westgate Mall Shabaab attack
Kenya Defence Forces soldiers are seen in windows as they comb the rooftop of the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi September 24, 2013. Image by: NOOR KHAMIS / REUTERS Warnings by Kenyan security forces of impending attack just days before Somalia’s Shabaab gunmen stormed a Nairobi mall killing at least 67 people last year were ignored,...
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Kenyan troops restore order to Somalia
PHOTO | EVANS HABIL Students at Afmadow Primary School in Somalia play during break time on January 24, 2014. The Kenya Defence Forces, under the umbrella of Amisom, have freed over 18 towns, including Kismayu and Afmadow, which were used as Al-Shabaab bases in the past. NATION By LUCAS BARASA AFMADOW, SOMALIA The Kenya Defence...
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Role of Maulid in spreading Islam in East Africa
Many locals were won over to Islam, not as a result of organised missionary crusades, but because of the first impression of the Islamic way of life and the ties and security offered by becoming part of the Ummah By ThE NEW DAWN TEAM Maulidi or Milad-Un-Nabii (the Prophet’s birthday) is a very significant ceremony...
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Central African Republic’s ‘Mother Courage’ fights to bring peace where the men have failed
Catherine Samba-Panza, the new interim president, has a year to end the nation’s bloody sectarian strife David Smith Catherine Samba-Panza sits prior to her swearing-in ceremony at the National Assembly in the capital, Bangui, on 23 January, 2014. Photograph: Siegfried Modola/Reuters When Barack Obama was elected US president in the depths of economic gloom, satirical...
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Warka waxaad ku dhageysan doontaan maanta: Deegaanka galgalo gobolka Bari oo la sheegay in uu ka dhacay dagaal xooggan kaasi oo u dhaxeeyo ciiddanka Puntland iyo shabaab iyo warar kale Warka oo dhan hoos ka dhegeyso
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Dubai Marathon: 18-year-old Tsegaye wins in second fastest time
Ethiopians make clean sweep in world’s richest marathon For the third year in a row, a marathon ‘new boy’ won the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon as teenager Tsegaye Mekonnen led an Ethiopian sweep in the emirate on Friday. The 18 year-old caused a major surprise, running 2h:04m:32s in his first marathon, to break the unofficial...
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Somali Islamists vow to boost attacks as Ethiopia join AU force
Somalia’s Shebab insurgents called Saturday for renewed attacks against foreign forces, after arch-enemy Ethiopia joined the African Union force battling the extremists. Top commanders of the Al-Qaeda-linked group, including insurgent supremo Ahmed Abdi Godane, met this week after Ethiopia formally joined the UN-backed mission known as AMISOM, Shebab spokesman Ali Mohamud Rage told AFP. “They...
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Miraa consumers in the UK unbowed by recent ban
By HAMLAL PURI KENYA: An unusual battle is simmering in Britain; a fight to stop the ban on miraa – or khat –a popular recreational twig among the Diaspora from Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Yemen. Segments of the UK’s 220,000-strong Somali community are fighting the prohibition, saying it is an affront on their culture and an...