A leading academic has claimed that religious fundamentalism could soon be treated in the same way as mental illness. Kathleen Taylor, a science author and research scientist at the University of Oxford, told the Hay Literary Festival techniques were already under development to help curb radicalised beliefs. She also claimed behaviours such as hitting children could...
New York, May 30, 2012–Ethiopian authorities have detained since Friday a reporter who sought to interview people evicted from their homes in a region where the government is building a contentious hydro-electric dam on the Blue Nile, according to a news report and the reporter’s editor. The Committee to Protect Journalists said today that the case highlights...
A Somali woman who lied about her identity when she came to New Zealand six years ago may be deported after serving a home detention sentence. A woman going by the name of Raha Ali Abdi, 30, was sentenced to nine months’ home detention when she appeared in Auckland District Court this week, after being...
CAIRO — Ethiopia’s construction of Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam on the world’s longest river threatens to affect flows of water to Nile-dependent, water-starved Egypt, where there is growing outrage, anger and fear. Egypt in the past has threatened to go to war over its “historic rights” to Nile River water but diplomats from both countries...
By Secunder Kermani BBC News, London Concern has been raised over the ease with which a Londoner killed in a drone attack in Somalia was able to attend militant Islamist camps in the country. Bilal Berjawi, from St John’s Wood, was reportedly operating at a senior level within the Islamist group Al Shabab until he...
By Frankline Sunday More Kenyan companies are forging business ties with Somalia as rebuilding of the war-torn country gathers momentum. They want to take leading role in its reconstruction as world powers scramble for the resources and opportunities in the country.Somalia has faced civil strife for the last three decades with State security agents and international forces battling armed militia...
TORONTO — The Consulate General of Eritrea in Toronto, the African country’s only diplomatic outpost in Canada, has long been accused of running a collection racket set up to finance the regime and its armed forces. As the National Post first reported in 2011, the consulate was acting as a fundraising front that solicited a 2% income...
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Dane McDonald, News24 Cape Town – All the Somali-owned shops in Port Elizabeth’s Booysen Park have been burned or looted and owners have evacuated the area, police say. “All remaining Somali shop-owners have packed up and left the Booysen Park area,” police spokesperson Stanley Jarvis told News24. “Police are in control of the situation, but...
BY SETUMO STONE AS CALM appeared to return to Diepsloot township in Gauteng on Thursday, following a violent attack on foreign shop owners, fresh violence broke out in the Eastern Cape township of Bethelsdorp. Eastern Cape police said a Somali national who was stabbed on Thursday morning was taken to hospital in a critical condition. This...