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Fears of disease outbreaks follow the tropical cyclone in Somalia

More than one week after a tropical cyclone tore through the Puntland region in Somalia, fears are emerging of an outbreak of waterborne diseases. Kwame Darko, health delegate for the Somalia delegation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), said the cyclone caused serious damage to vital infrastructure. “Many wells...

Too many dinosaurs
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Too many dinosaurs

The survival of ancient tyrants spoils Africa’s record of improving democracy BETWEEN independence from colonial rule in the early 1960s and the end of the cold war in 1991, not a single African ruler was peacefully ousted at the ballot box, except in the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. But since Mathieu Kérékou of Benin...

In repressive Ethiopia, new ‘Blue Party’ struggles to offer a choice
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In repressive Ethiopia, new ‘Blue Party’ struggles to offer a choice

With 1,000 Ethiopian laborers being sent home daily from Saudi Arabia, the opposition party is channeling popular outrage.  By William Davison ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA Ethiopia is a definite success story in expert opinion about post-cold war Africa. The civil strife that wreaked havoc and made headlines in the 1980s has disappeared. Investments in roads, health, education,...

Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer

Warka maanta ee Raadiyo Wardheer waxaad ku maqli doontaan: Madaxweyne xasan oo sheegay in ay ahayd arrin fulinimo qaraxii ka dhacay Baladweyn, Xukuumadda federaalaka oo jawaab ka bixisay hadal dhawaan ka soo yeeray maamulka Somaaliland iyo warar kale. Warka oo dhan halkan ka dhegeyso: Warka Raadiyo Wardheer 

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Newport elects Wales’ first British-Somali councillor

AMID calls for more to be done to encourage people from ethnic minority backgrounds to become councillors in Wales, last month voters in one part of Newport elected a man thought to be Wales’ first councillor from a Somali background. Omar Ali, 46, who was elected as a Labour councillor at the by-election for the...

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Somali immigrants in U.S. provided support to al-Qaeda affiliate

Jim Kouri Three Somali immigrants in San Diego, Calif., were sentenced on Monday afternoon by a federal judge for their involvement in providing material support to the al-Qaeda-linked, Somali Islamist group Al Shabaab, according to law enforcement officials. Basaaly Saeed Moalin, who worked as a city taxi driver and was convicted by a federal jury of...