Wararka maanta waxaad ku dhageysan doontaan: Duqayn cirka ah oo la sheegay in lagu dilay horjoogayaal ka mid ah shabaab oo ka dhacday Gado, tirada wasiirrada oo leysku raacay sida ay sheegayaan warar hoose oo laga helay xafiiska R/wadaaraha iyoi warar kale. Warka oo dhan hoos ka dheyso
By Eli Lake How did Israel land an extra squadron of Joint Strike Fighters? It was the cost of doing business with Saudi Arabia, according to the former secretary of defense’s new book. In 2010, as the United States was completing a $60 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, the Israelis quietly received an additional squadron...
Mogadishu; The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, Ambassador Mahamat Saleh Annadif today paid a courtesy call on the new Somalia Prime Minister H.E. Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed to congratulate him on his recent appointment and pledge AMISOM support to his new government. The two leaders were meeting for...
At least 30 members of the militant Islamist group al Shabaab have been killed in an air strike on one of their training camps in Somalia, Kenya’s military said on Friday. The raid, which took place Thursday evening, targeted an al Shabaab camp in Garbarahey, a district situated in the southwestern Gedo region, which is near the...
The Abbott government has overturned Labor’s decision to deny a mutilated Somali woman a medical visa so she could take up an offer of free surgery. An African woman who was denied permission to travel to Australia for facial reconstruction surgery by the Gillard government has had a second visa application approved. Ayaan Mohamed, 25,...
By Tom Rhodes/CPJ East Africa Representative “When I grow up will I go to jail like my dad?” This was the shattering question that the five-year-old son of imprisoned Ethiopian journalist Woubshet Taye asked his mother after a recent prison visit. Woubshet’s son, named Fiteh (meaning “justice”), has accompanied his mother on a wayward tour of...
Mohammed Yusuf NAIROBI — The al-Qaida-linked group al-Shabab carried out an average of one deadly attack every seven weeks during 2013. At least 18,000 African Union soldiers are in Somalia attempting to crush al-Shabab and end more than two decades of conflict. But the militant group is still pushing to overthrow the internationally-recognized government. On Wednesday...
Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve always had a profound relationship with God. Even though I was raised a Catholic, with all its ambiguities, contradictions and confusion, I did my best to stay God-focused and not to give in to the teachings of the Church, because even to me as a child, they...
ARE DESPISED AND ABUSED BY JUST ABOUT EVERYONE THEY MEET By Sean Williams On an ordinary night, after the sun sets over Hargeisa, Somaliland, Mohamed packs up his shoe-shine kit and heads to the storm drain where he lives when he’s not working. All things considered, it’s a good spot for the 12-year-old to sleep—the...
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