Kenya has dismissed a UN report which accuses its troops in Somalia of facilitating charcoal exports in defiance of a UN Security Council ban. The report, leaked to Reuters news agency, said Kenyan troops helped export charcoal from Kismayo port after militant Islamist group al-Shabab lost control of it in September 2012. The UN banned...
Call followed series of crimes committed by Ethiopian domestic workers A Saudi official has urged the Gulf Kingdom to stop importing domestic workers from Ethiopia following a series of crimes committed by housemaids from that African country, a newspaper reported on Monday. “There is a need now to halt the recruitment of domestic servants from...
The International Maritime Bureau says only eight piracy attacks were reported in the Gulf of Aden area in the first six months of 2013. Pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden dropped to their lowest level since 2006, an international watch group says. The International Maritime Bureau (IMB), which...
With impassable roadways and dangerous seas, Jubba Airways and other carriers are expanding flight routes to meet rising demand for travel within Somalia. RYAN JACOBS Pirates command its coast. Traffic along the country’s few pockmarked roads is often disrupted by militias and criminals. Of more than 22,000 km of roadway, only 2,608 km are paved. And though Somalia’s...
Muqdisho, july 14, 2013 (WDN)- Warka Radio Wardheer, Qodobbada warka aad ku maqli doontaan dhageystayaal waxaa ka mid ah, dowladda Putland oo ku dhawaaqday in ay joojisay doorashada dowladaha hoose kadib dagaalo iyo rabshado ka dhacay qaar ka mid ah deegaanada Putland, dagaal Qardho ku dhexmaray kooxo hubeysan iyo ciiddamada Putland oo ay dad ku dhinteen,...
DADAAB , Kenya (AFP) – Row after row of tin shacks and shelters made of plastic and branches stretch almost as far as the eye can see in the world’s largest refugee camp, home to over 427,000 Somalis who fled war. Dadaab, in northeast Kenya, is a grim place few would choose to call home, ...
The President of Puntland State of Somalia H.E. Abdirahman Mohamed Mohamud (Farole), in lengthy consultations with the Vice President, Parliament Speaker, Council of Ministers and National Security Council members, Chairman of Transitional Puntland Election Commission (TPEC), and prominent members of civil society, has issued the following decision regarding the suspension of Local Council Elections scheduled...
By Louis Charbonneau A confidential report by U.N. monitors accuses Kenyan soldiers in the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia of facilitating illegal charcoal exports from the port city of Kismayu, a business that generates millions of dollars a year for Islamic militants seeking to topple the government. The case of the failed ban on...
Ethiopian opposition activists said Saturday they will hold rare demonstrations in two northern towns calling for government reform in the tightly controlled country. The planned demonstrations, due to be held Sunday in the towns of Gondar and Dessie, follow protests last month in the capital Addis Ababa when several thousand activists called for the release...
Somalia’s al-Shabaab group has banned samosas after ruling the popular snacks are ‘offensive’ and too Christian. Militant Islamist fighters last week used vehicles mounted with loudspeakers to announce the bizarre ruling across the regions of the war-torn country it controls. The extremist group has offered no official explanation for the ban on the triangular snacks,...