Johannesburg – Seven men have been arrested for looting and burning Somali-owned shops in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape police said on Monday. “We can confirm that seven suspects have since been arrested and charged with public violence. All the suspects are in their late 20s,” said police spokesperson Sibongile Soci. They were expected to appear...
JOHANNESBURG – Giantkillers Ethiopia were drawn against Nigeria Monday in the 2014 World Cup Africa zone play-offs. Ivory Coast face Senegal, Tunisia meet Cameroon, Ghana tackle Egypt and Burkina Faso play Algeria in the other ties created by a draw in Cairo. The two-leg showdowns are set for October and November and the winners qualify...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union pledged an additional 650 million euros ($862 million) in aid for Somalia on Monday to back a three-year reconstruction plan aimed at building on fragile security gains in the country. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso made the pledge as Somalia’s government and international donors met in Brussels to...
While supporting the New Deal process and welcoming of the donors’ engagement, Somaliland has chosen not to participate in the Conference as the country’s national needs and priorities are very different to Somalia’s, writes Mohamed Behi Yonis. Mohamed Behi Yonis is Minister of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation, Republic of Somaliland. Despite facing many pressing...
KAMPALA (AFP) – Uganda said Monday it had suspended 24 of its army officers, who were part of a UN-mandated force battling Al-Qaeda linked rebels in Somalia, over corruption allegations. A defence ministry spokesman said among those recalled for “getting involved in conduct injurious” to the African Union AMISOM force was the head of the...
I would like to personally welcome all of you today to this Conference. We are here to deliver a New Deal for Somalia. And I am delighted to see so many representatives from Somalia, from the region and from around the world. This is fundamentally what this New Deal is about: the people of Somalia...
NAIROBI: Somalia’s hardline Islamist Shebab rebels on Monday dismissed a key donor conference due to open in Brussels as “Belgian waffle” and a waste of time. Shebab said in a statement on Twitter that “the billions promised will most likely be unpaid, the paltry sum given to the apostates,” its term for the Somali government, “will be lost in...
Several shops belonging to Somali nationals in KwaZakhele and New Brighton, PE, have been looted and burnt at the weekend. Government repeatedly insisted that it does not identify the incidents as strictly xenophobic in nature. Somali nationals shops in Port Elizabeth, were looted and burnt at the weekend, Eastern Cape police said on Monday. Brigadier Marinda Mills...
By Faustine Kapama THE trial of seven suspected Somali pirates opens on Monday at the High Court in Dar es Salaam, being the first such case in the country’s judiciary history. It will be a litmus test for the prosecution to prove such case since the National Assembly endorsed the Attorney General’s motion for Written...
Somalia’s New Deal is the first of its kind in the world and is a more ambitious initiative than a classic development tool, write Villy Søvndal and Christian Friis Bach. Villy Søvndal is Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. Christian Friis Bach is Danish Minister for Development Cooperation and Co-Chair for the International Dialogue on...