By Peter Finn Aboard the USS Boxer, somewhere in the Indian Ocean, Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame was sitting across from a team of interrogators, talking and talking. In secure meeting rooms in Washington, senior officials in the Obama administration were wringing their hands over what to do with him. Some in the administration desperately wanted to prosecute Warsame —...
October 8, 2026
Category: News
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How UPDF drove al-Shabaab terrorists out of Mogadishu
Six years ago, when the group of the first Ugandan soldiers arrived at Mogadishu International Airport, they were welcomed by unrelenting mortar and sniper fire. The future was uncertain for Battle Group One under the commander of Col. Peter Elwelu, now, Brigadier and Third Division commander. In a strange land, on unfamiliar terrain and facing...
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RaadRaac: Xaalada ammaanka ee Muqdisho
RaadRaac (WDN) Xaalada ammaanka ee Muqdisho oo ka waraysanay gudoomiye xigeenka gobolka Banaadir. Dhegaysi wacan.
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UK plans Somali trade, investment meeting
The United Kingdom has announced plans to host a trade and investment conference for Somalia in London during a planned security meeting to be held there in May, the UK Minister for Africa, Mark Simmonds, said Thursday.Simmonds said at a meeting with Somali residents in London that the security improvements in Somalia had opened up...
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Supreme Court upholds Uhuru’s election as president
Nairobi ( Daily Nation)- The Supreme Court has upheld the election of Uhuru Kenyatta as Kenya’s fourth president. Chief Justice Willy Mutunga said Mr Kenyatta and William Ruto were validly elected as President and Deputy President respectively. “It is the decision that the third and fourth respondents were validly elected,” Dr Mutunga said. The judgement...
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Western Money, African Boots: A Formula For Africa’s Conflicts
For the past six years in Somalia, Western countries have been putting up the cash and African nations have been supplying the soldiers, a formula that has pushed back al-Qaida-linked militants and allowed Somalia to elect it’s first democratic government in 20 years. “We can fix our problems in Africa,” says Brig. Michael Ondoga,...
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Oh, the places you won’t go! World’s 25 least-visited countries
Using UN statistics, travel writer Gunnar Garfors found that top contenders for the least-visited award are often dangerous or remote. But some are just plain boring. For some travelers, getting off the beaten path is a point of pride, a way to see the parts of the world that don’t make it into glossy guidebooks....
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Kenyan separatists deny being behind deadly resort attack
(Reuters) – A Kenyan separatist movement denied on Friday accusations by the authorities that it was behind a raid in a coastal resort that killed eight people, although it said former members may have been involved. Armed police officers shot dead six attackers and two policemen were killed in Thursday’s early morning raid on a...
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Somalia to get small arms after U.N. lifts embargo
By Yara Bayoumy ____________ DOHA (Reuters) – The Somali government expects to get its first shipment of light weapons within two months after the United Nations partially lifted an arms embargo to strengthen security forces fighting al Qaeda-linked militants, Somalia’s president said. Aware of international wariness about sending arms to a volatile country already awash...
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Saudi’s illegal immigrants draw fear of “infiltrators
By Angus McDowall and Asma Alsharif _________ JEDDAH (Reuters) – Down a narrow alleyway deep in the Jeddah slum of Karantina, three women from Sudan have set up stalls under colourful parasols, selling peanuts, hibiscus petals, dried pulses, baskets, frankincense, calabashes and sandalwood. They laugh and gossip in the sunshine, swathed in bright printed cloth,...