War-zone thrill seeker stumbles straight into jihadi torture trap By MAUREEN CALLAHAN Bored with her life and fresh off a New Year’s Eve epiphany, a 24-year-old Canadian named Amanda Lindhout quits her job as a cocktail waitress and decides to become a journalist. To get famous fast, she’ll start in Afghanistan, landing in Kabul in...
By MATT MCKINNEY Three recent killings of young men are thought to be connected. A series of shootings that killed at least three young men this summer is stirring fears in the Somali community that a gang war has broken out, threatening to take more lives and tarnish its reputation. The killings, two in Minneapolis and one...
MOGADISHU: Somalia’s troubled capital Mogadishu hosted TEDx talks on Saturday, as academics, activists artists and entrepreneurs gathered to challenge the negative images of the infamously dangerous and war-ravaged city. The talks, held in a conference hall in Mogadishu under tight security but also broadcast on the Internet, examined “the ideas, innovations and traditions that once...
Small business owners are using a unique form of mobile money to connect with customers. Hamza Mohamed Mogadishu, Somalia – Abukar Abdulle Mohamed is a busy man. His three phones keep beeping away as he negotiates and shakes hands with a group of mainly middle-aged men. Fifty-four-year-old Mohamed is a livestock trader with more than thirty years...
Muqdisho, August 31, 2013 (WDN)- Warka Radio Wardheer, kulanti wacan dhageystayaal,Qodobbada warka aad ku maqli doontaan waxaa ka mid ah, Ra;iisul Wasaaraha Soomaaliya oo gaaray dalka Sacuudiga,dagaallo u dhaxeeya ciidamada dowlada iyo Al shabaab oo ka dhacay degmada Hiliwaa ee Muqdisho,Banaan-bax looga soo horjeedo heshiiska dowlada iyo maamulka Jubba ee Kismaayo oo ka dhacay Baydhabo,iyo qodobo...
Graham Smith Ethiopian Airlines has ordered a further eight Boeing 787s, less than two months after one of its Dreamliners caught fire at Heathrow. The African carrier already has five B787s in its fleet. It previously had five more on order, a figure that has now increased to 13. Both LHR runways were closed for...
BY BEN RAWLENCE It’s the closing night of the Dadaab film festival—a week of screenings in the world’s largest refugee camp, organized by the nonprofit Film Aid. I’m sitting on a plastic chair in the sand, watching black-and-white images of Ethiopian soldiers battling Italian armored cars and Somali nomads, projected on a large open-air movie screen...
By KENNEDY KANGETHE NAIROBI, Miraa traders have denounced the call by Wajir South MP, Abdullah Diriye, to discourage the use of the stimulant among the Somali community. Nyambere Miraa Traders Association (NMTA) spokesman, Kimathi Munjuri, says the community remains the biggest traders with more than half of the women in Wajir feeding their family from the...
Ladies, don’t try to outdo your partner – it makes them feel rotten about themselves. Rather than bask in your well-earned glory following a particular success, deep down a man’s self-esteem is likely to be taking a bruising. Whether the achievement is social or intellectual, men subconsciously feel far worse about themselves when a wife...
After delay caused by al-Shabaab attack, organisers say Mogadishu event poses toughest security challenge yet David Smith Along with a gourmet coffee shop, a literary festival and a rush of intrepid tourists, the staging of a TEDx event is one of those apparent symbols offered as proof that a war-torn country is normalising and even...