By RACHEL REILLY Children who spend more time playing outside are less likely to suffer from short-sightedness. Two new studies have added to the body of evidence that daylight plays an important role in preventing the condition. It is not known why daylight is important but some experts believe levels of the brain chemical dopamine play...
A strategic port is booming yet politically vulnerable A RED shipping container is suspended from a crane above a tandoori-hot dock alongside the freighter on which it has just crossed the Indian Ocean. Suddenly something goes slightly wrong. The container slips, maybe by a foot: no harm done. Perhaps a mechanical fault is to blame,...
By Peter Martell MOGADISHU: Not yet named but much loved by watchful parents, a newly born baby boy is a small symbol of change: a birth, not a death for Somalia’s key war hospital. After over two decades of bloody civil war, Somalia remains a very dangerous place, but security has slowly improved, with Islamist fighters linked to Al-Qaeda on...
Muqdisho, May 02 , 2013 (WDN)- Madaxweynaha Soomaaliya Md. Xasan Sheekh Maxamuud iyo wafti uu hogaaminayo oo maanta ka ambabaxay magaalada Muqdisho ayaa gaadhay magaalada Addis Ababa oo ay kaga qaybgalayaan shir madaxeedka waddamada ku bahoobay urur goboleedka IGAD. Madaxweynaha iyo waftigiisa, ayaa waxaa garoonka dayaaradaha ee magaalada Addis Abab si diirran ugu soo dhaweeyay...
Muqdisho, May 02, 2013 (WDN)- Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya Md. Xasan Sheekh Maxamuud, ayaa maanta hortagay barlamaanka Soomaaliya, halkas oo uu ka jeediyay qudbad dhinacyo badan taabaneysay. Md. Xasan Sheekh oo hadalkiisa ku billaabay booqashadiisii Puntland, ayaa waxa uu sheegay in maamulka Puntland uu yahay maamul ku dayasha mudan oo khibrad u leh hannaanka federalka,...
Muqdisho, Mey 02, 2013 (WDN)- Warka Radio Wardheer, Qodobbada warka aad ku maqli doontaan waxa ka mid ah; Madaxweyne Xasan Sheekh oo baarlamaanka Soomaaliya la hadlay, wasiirka arrimmaha dibbadda Soomaaliya oo shir kaga qeyb galeysa Addis-ababa, Britain iyo Imaaraad oo lacago ugu deeqay Soomaaliya iyo qodobbo kale.
Rammah Al-Jubari SANA’A, The Passport Authority says they are working on the case of around 60 Ethiopian migrants who having been sitting outside the authority’s building for about a week, asking to be repatriated to their home country. “I don’t have [enough] money to pay for a smuggler to take me to Saudi Arabia, and...
By VICTORIA WOOLLASTON Making small sacrifices for your partner when you don’t feel like it could be damaging your relationship, according to social scientists from the University of Arizona. Men and women offering to take on a chore normally done by the other may make them seem like the perfect partner. Yet when these sacrifices are...
By Joe Stephens and Justin Jouvenal An Army reservist and Iraq veteran who works as a cabdriver says a passenger he picked up early Friday at a Northern Virginia country club accused him of being a terrorist because he is Muslim, then fractured his jaw in an attack being described by Islamic activists as a hate crime. Mohamed...
(For immediate release) AMISOM Thwart Terror Attacks on Kismayo Kismayo, 01 May, 2013 – AMISOM troops in support of Somalia Government Forces this morning thwarted two planned terror attacks by suspected al Shabaab terrorists in the southern Somalia port city of Kismayo. The joint forces apprehended a woman carrying explosives as she attempted to...