Nairobi – Israeli forces have joined Kenyan efforts to end a deadly siege by Somali militants at a Nairobi shopping mall, a security source told AFP on Sunday. “The Israelis have just entered and they are rescuing the hostages and the injured,” the source told AFP on condition he not be named. In Israel, foreign...
Marthe van der Wolf ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopians continue to eat raw meat at family and festive occasions despite health risks that include exposure to tapeworms, salmonella and E-coli. While most people are taught that eating raw meat is not good for you, the tradition persists in Ethiopia. Whenever there is something to celebrate — like...
The death toll in an attack on a upmarket mall in Kenya has risen to 59 people and security forces are trying to ensure hostages come out safely, the interior minister said on Sunday, a day after the assault by Somali Islamist gunmen. Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku told reporters that the government believed there...
NAIROBI (AFP) – Kenyan troops and Somali militants were locked in a hostage stand-off inside an upmarket Nairobi shopping mall early Sunday, after the Islamist gunmen stormed the complex and massacred 39 people and wounded 150. Kenyan officials said “major operations” were underway with police and soldiers engaged in an apparent final bid to put...
By Ross Romaniuk The University of Regina is going to great lengths to help its Muslim students avoid doing the same when washing for on-campus prayer sessions. The university has installed “foot-baths” in a public washroom at its Riddell Centre, in order to allow Muslim students — many of whom pray numerous times a day, and...
By ELLIE BUCHDAHL Dr Muhammad Taufiq Al Sattar, 52, said he had planned to return home from Dublin on the night his wife, daughter and sons died at home. The neurosurgeon, who usually spent three weekends out of four in Leicester, said he last spoke to his wife of 20 years, Shehnila Taufiq, on Friday night....
Twitter has suspended the account of Somalia’s al-Shabab rebels after they used the site to claim responsibility for an attack on a Nairobi shopping mall. NAIROBI (AFP) – The Twitter account of Somalia’s Al Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels was suspended Saturday after they used the site to claim responsibility for an attack on a Nairobi shopping...
Fighters from Somali’s al-Shabaab have continually surprised observers, who predicted their downfall early on Guy Alexander It is only seven years since Ethiopian forces swept into Somalia with the political and military backing of the US to topple the Islamic Courts Union, an Islamist movement that had taken control of much of south and central Somalia after...
NAIROBI, Kenya — An upscale mall popular with the Kenyan elite and the foreign diplomats and businesspeople who call Nairobi home turned into a war zone on Saturday, as gunmen opened fire on shoppers in an apparent terrorist attack, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens more. At nightfall, the mall remained sealed off...
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