By Mark Doyle A different side to Somalia is discovered – one of mango plantations and bustling markets, as well as a country devastated by two decades of conflict – after losing a pair of spectacles. This is the story about how I mislaid my spectacles on a battlefield in central Somalia. But it’s also...
November 14, 2026
Category: News
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Hate Crimes Against Muslims Soar After Woolwich Murder Of Lee Rigby
PA/Huffington Post UK Hate crimes against Muslims have soared in 2013, new figures have shown. Hundreds of anti-Muslim offences have been carried out across the country in 2013, with Britain’s biggest force, the Metropolitan police, recording 500 Islamophobic crimes alone. Many forces reported a surge in the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes following the murder...
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka maanta waxaad ku dhageysan doontaa: Faahfaahin ku saabsan qarax saakay lala eegtay ciiddamo ka tirsan dowladda Soomaaliya, Madaxweynaha Soomaaliya oo gaaray Kenya si uu uga qayb galo Shirka IGAD ee looga hadlayo arrimaha dalka Koofunta Suudaan iyo warar kale. Warka oo dhan hoos ka dhegeyso:
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Bomb Kills 10 in Mogadishu Restaurant Attack
By DAN BILEFSKY PARIS — At least 10 people were killed in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, on Friday when a remote-controlled bomb exploded in a restaurant in the northwestern part of the city, government officials said. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the explosion. The Shabab, an Islamist militant group based in Somalia...
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White Widow Lewthwaite fomenting jihad in Somalia on back of a camel
BY CHRIS KILPATRICK The world’s most wanted female terror suspect – who spent part of her childhood in Northern Ireland – has been spotted fleeing by camel to an al-Qaida training camp. Samantha Lewthwaite, better known as the White Widow, is understood to be holed up in the Somali camp, where she is being protected by 800al-Qaida allies. It is...
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African leaders ‘hopeful’ of South Sudan peace deal
Delegations from Ethiopia and Kenya call first meeting promising, but humanitarian crisis continues to worsen Monica Mark in Lagos African leaders who met in South Sudan to try to mediate a conflict that threatens to unravel the world’s newest country said talks had been “promising” but admitted that it was not clear when a ceasefire might be agreed. Following nearly...
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Bulo Burde residents flee al-Shabaab’s oppressive rule
By Osman Mohamud in Mogadishu Residents of Bulo Burde have grown increasingly concerned about al-Shabaab tactics after the militants started cracking down on existing rules regarding residents’ clothing, hairstyles, leisure time and access to information. For the past two months, al-Shabaab militants have been harassing youth they say are “dressing like infidels”, residents in Somalia’s...
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European Muslims flock to Syria
1,100 Europeans have joined Islamist militant groups in Syria’s civil war Zawya Dow Jones Kolsas, Norway: Rahma and Ugbad Sadiq packed their school bags as they did every morning, and left the family home in Kolsas, Norway, where their parents immigrated in 1996 to escape war in their native Somalia. But by 5pm that day,...
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Fear in Khatumo ahead of Puntland polls
Hargeisa, (IRIN) – Thousands of people in northern Somalia’s two-year-old Khatumo state remain displaced for fear of a repeat of the armed violence in late November that forced them to flee their homes in the state capital, Taleh. “The life of the displaced people is now getting worse for several reasons, including lack of shelter,...
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka maanta waxad ku dhageysan doontaan: Munaasabad uu xilka kula wareegayay R/wasaare Cabdiwali oo Muqdisho ka dhacday maanta iyo warar kale. Warka oo dhan hoos ka dhegeyso: