U.S. investigators who helped probe the deadly mall attack last September in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, say the al-Shabab militants who launched the massacre likely died in the attack. In a report posted Friday on the FBI’s website, legal attaché Dennis Brady said there is no evidence any of the attackers escaped the explosions and...
Enrichment of soul brings true happiness
Even though happiness is perhaps one of the most important things in life, science still can not explain much about it. Its concept itself is elusive. Is it an idea, emotion, virtue, philosophy, ideal, or is it just programmed in the genes? There is no agreed upon definition for it, yet still everyone seems to...
U.S. Soldiers in Somalia and the Pentagon’s Unlearned Lessons
Michael Shank News that the Pentagon is sending its military back into Somalia, after 20 years, shows that America is still missing the point on the Horn of Africa when it comes to preventing violence. Has the Defense Department learned that little in its many misadventures on the African continent? To be clear, the biggest war being...
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Former Israeli PM Ariel Sharon dies after eight-year coma
Death of Sharon, aged 85, comes as less of a shock to Israel than stroke that felled him at height of his premiership in 2006 Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem Ariel Sharon, the controversial self-styled “warrior” who dominatedIsrael‘s military and political landscape for decades, has died eight years after a massive stroke left him in a vegetative...
Development Secretary meets UK Somalis in Ealing
Justine Greening met with members of the UK’s Somali community in London to discuss Britain’s aid and development programmes across Somalia. Ms. Greening set out the UK government’s plan to create a more peaceful, stable and prosperous Somalia after years of conflict. She also set out different government departments are working to enable remittance payments...
Opera based on Somali civil war to debut in New York
Marsha Lederman A moment can change everything. So can serendipity, circumstances, luck – where you are, who you’re with, whether you remembered to load batteries into your camera. Everything changed for Paul Watson, with ramifications shooting far beyond his own life, when he photographed a horrific scene in Somalia in 1993: the corpse of a...
One in 10 babies in England are now Muslims: census
London (AFP) – Almost one in 10 babies and toddlers in England and Wales are Muslim, according to new analysis of census figures published Friday, illustrating the growth of the minority community. Some 317,952 children aged under five, or 9.1 percent, were registered as being Muslim in the 2011 census, the Office for National Statistics...
‘Corpse’ wakes up in Kenyan morgue day after being declared dead
The man’s family had started making funeral arrangements when he awoke Kashmira Gander Mortuary workers in Kenya were shocked when a man woke up the day after he was declared dead. Authorities have since launched an investigation into how Paul Mutora was mistakenly put into the morgue at Naivasha District Hospital, north-west of the capital...
U.S. has deployed military advisers to Somalia, officials say
By Craig Whitlock The U.S. military has deployed a small number of uniformed trainers and advisers to the failed state of Somalia for the first time since 1993, when two helicopters were shot down and 18 Americans were killed in the failed “Black Hawk Down” operation. A cell of U.S. military personnel has been stationed in...
