The U.N. Security Council has unanimously called on Somalia to pass laws banning piracy and urged the east African nation to more aggressively combat pirates at sea and the crime lords on land who finance and organize their raids. The council welcomed the news that pirate attacks off Somalia have fallen to their lowest level...
PRESS RELEASE Puntland security agencies have detained two foreigners in an ongoing investigation into Oversight International, a shady organization that registered in Puntland as a Local NGO in March 2013. The two foreigners – French national Quentin Ygorra and British national Alasdair Walton – were arrested in Garowe on November 14, by Puntland security agencies...
Warka waxaad ku maqli doontaan dhegeystayaal: abaabulka mooshin ka dhan ah R/wasaare Saacid oo ka socda Muqdisho, dagaallo mar kale maanta ka dhacay Shabeelaha Hoose iyo warar kale. Warka oo dhan halkan ka dhegeyso: Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Three Ethiopians were killed this month in clashes with Saudi police Addis Ababa: When Abdullah Awele moved to Saudi Arabia from Ethiopia last year, he thought he would land a good job and earn enough money to send home to his family. But instead, Abdullah, 21, said he was beaten, robbed and jailed for living...
By Nima Elbagir, CNN Kenya (CNN) — More than a month after Somali militants from Al-Shabaab massacred 67 people at a mall in Nairobi, a Kenyan rapid response team has now been deployed to the northeastern border of the country to secure the closed border crossing into neighboring Somalia. But official border crossings are far from the only...
KUWAIT, (KUNA) — Head of the Somali delegation to the 3rd Africa-Arab Summit of November 19-20, Parliament Speaker Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawari, arrived in Kuwait on Monday. Jawari was received at the airport by the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and Health Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah. Source: KUNA
Johannesburg – African governments should reject special exemptions for sitting officials before the International Criminal Court (ICC), African organizations and international organizations with a presence in Africa said in a document released today. The ICC’s annual meeting, the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), will take place from November 20 to 28, 2013, in The Hague,...
By Nick Owens It is feared the 29-year-old could be on her way to Yemen where she has spent time with leading members of Al-Qaida Detective searching for White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite are probing reports she is hiding out in a remote area of Somalia. Acting on a tip-off, officers are searching in Baidoa for the fugitive believed...
The Somali Youth Association of Toronto is opening a satellite office at United Way Toronto’s Rexdale Community Hub. By: Leslie Ferenc Long before violence gripped the community in the summer of 2012, the Somali Youth Association of Toronto was working on the ground with young people, offering them alternatives to guns and gangs. Established in 1992, the non-profit...
By Rashid Abdi ADDIS Ethiopia’s official declaration last week to join the African peacekeeping mission in Somalia, African Union Mission in Somali (Amisom), has been widely praised as “positive” by the key Western nations, a welcome step likely to inject fresh momentum into the flagging counterinsurgency campaign in Somalia. “The view (of the EU, US...