By Zodidi Dano Cape Town – Nyanga residents went on the rampage in an apparent revenge attack after two Somali shopkeepers were arrested for allegedly shooting a seven-year-old boy on Saturday. The shopkeepers opened fire, believing they were under attack, after a stone was thrown at their shop in an incident over the weekend. Kwanele...
November 14, 2026
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Maid sentenced to death for killing child
A Saudi court sentenced an Ethiopian housemaid for murdering the six-year-old daughter of her Saudi employer to avenge his alleged mistreatment of her. The court in the Saudi capital Riyadh handed down the death verdict after the 26-year-old maid confessed to killing Lamis by slitting her throat with a kitchen knife. Police arrested the maid...
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Automatic Rifle Inventor Kalashnikov Dies at Age 94
The man behind the favorite assault rifle of Somali pirates and third-world rebels alike has passed away at the ripe age of 94. Arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov died today in the republic of Udmurtia. As eulogized by Pravda.ru: “It’s difficult and hard to realize that Mikhail Kalashnikov is no longer with us. One of the most...
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South Sudan: the state that fell apart in a week
The first western journalist into South Sudan reports from Juba on the brutal and sudden descent into civil war Daniel Howden in Juba A week ago, Simon K, a 20-year-old student living in the capital of South Sudan, was arrested by men in military uniforms. He was asked a question that has taken on deadly importance in...
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka maanta aad maqli dootaan waxaa ka mid ah: Madaxweynaha Soomaaliya oo booqday xarrunta wasaaradda Gashaandhigga Kulamana la qaatay saraakiisha iyo warar kale. Warka oo faahfaahsan hoos ka dhegeyso:
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Black women find it harder to lose weight than white women because they have slower metabolisms
By EMMA INNES From their genes to the speed of their metabolism, people come up with an enormous range of excuses for their failure to shed their extra pounds. Now, new research suggests ethnicity could be a valid explanation for dieting disasters. Researchers discovered African-American women have to eat fewer calories and take more exercise to...
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SA dismisses report Mandela trained by Israeli agents
The South African Nelson Mandela foundation on Saturday denied the report that Mandela received the training from Israeli agents in 1962. “We can confirm that we have not located any evidence in Nelson Mandela’s private archive that he interacted with an Israeli operative,” the foundation said in a statement. The statement came after a British...
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PRESS RELEASE: AMISOM apologises for fatal road accident
Mogadishu, The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, Ambassador Mahamat Saleh Annadif has offered his heartfelt apologies to the family of the two men killed in a tragic road accident today. The accident occurred on 20th of December at 5.45pm in the capital Mogadishu, a few meters from...
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IFRC launches appeal to assist cyclone survivors in Somalia
Press Release: IFRC The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has launched an emergency appeal of 2.4 million Swiss Francs to assist 23,100 people affected by a tropical cyclone that hit Puntland State in Somalia on 10 November 2013. Heavy rainfall and flash floods followed the tropical cyclone, and caused loss of...
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Somali pop idol offers escape to the youth
After more than two decades of conflict, some semblance of normality is returning to the Somalia capital, Mogadishu. A UN-backed government is consolidating its control of the city, and services such as rubbish collection and traffic lights have been restored. Now, a TV reality show has been launched, as the BBC’s Kate Forbes reports. A...