By NATION REPORTER Renowned Somali writer Nurudin Farah has condemned the harassment of Somalis in Nairobi’s Eastleigh and the treatment of those in North Eastern Kenya “as second rate citizens.” He said the massacres have not been acknowledged, adding that Kenya had benefited a great deal from the conflict in Somalia. Kenya moved into Somalia in...
Somalia will present a challenging case but Mogadishu has enthusiastically embraced the state-building framework Mark Tran Somalia is emerging as a litmus test for the new deal for fragile states as officials gather in Washington on Friday to discuss how the approach can be incorporated into the development agenda when the millennium development goals expire in 2015. The new Somali...
Faced with al-Shabaab attacks, soldiers trained by the Ugandan military need not only guns but better organisation to safeguard Somalia Jessica Hatcher in Mogadishu Captain Muhudun Ahmed Muhamud has faced the same weaponry – rocket-propelled grenades – that brought down two Black Hawk helicopters during the US special forces assault on Bakara market in Mogadishu...
BY MARK MAZZETTI ______________ In her telling of the story, the details of which a former American government official confirmed, she was sitting in her suite at the Djibouti Palace Kempinski, the only five-star hotel in the tiny, impoverished nation. The hotel was hosting an international conference to select the next leaders of Somalia’s anemic...
Hassan Sheik Mohamud President of Somalia, 57 By Paul Kagame Emerging from the presidential contest of September 2012, Somalia’s Hassan Sheik Mohamud is discarding destructive clan-based politics in favor of anticorruption measures and national reconciliation as well as embracing vital security-sector and economic reforms. A 17,000-strong African Union force finally helped to restore security in Somalia,...
Muqdisho, Abril 18, 2013 (WDN)- Warka Radio WDN, Qodobbada warka aad ku maqli doontaan waxa ka mid ah; Nin Miino dhigaayay gudaha Muqdisho oo isaga uun ay la qaraxday, AMISOM oo banneeysay garroonkii kubbadda ee Muqdisho, Madaxweyne Siilaanyo oo la kulmay raysal wasaaraha Ingriiska iyo qodobbo kale.
Dhammaan dadka macagyadoodu hoos ku qorani waxay halkan tacsi tiiraanyo leh uga dirayaan qoyskii eheladii iyo asxaabtii uu ka baxay Alle naxariistii janno ha ka waraabiyee Xildhibaan Cabdillaahi Sheekh Xasan Aw Cismaan oo ka mid ahaa xildhibaanada golaha guurtida Somalialnd oo maalintii Salaasada ee taariikhdu ahayd 16/04/2013 ku geeriyooday magaalada Hargeysa. Waxay eebbe marxuumka uga...
A video circulating on the Internet that some suggested showed a Canadian militant in Somalia is, in fact, an innocuous video message from a Somali man living in the United States. Somali sources had circulated the video suggesting it was proof that a Somali-Canadian was part of a deadly attack in Mogadishu this past weekend....
(Reuters) – A suspected al Shabaab militant was killed on Thursday trying to plant a bomb in a busy district of the Somali capital, a police official said, after the Islamist group threatened more attacks following two deadly assaults this week. Western and Somali officials are concerned that al Shabaab, who were driven out of...
Three men were forcibly removed from an annual culture festival in Saudi Arabia and subsequently sent back to the UAE after it was deemed that women could find them irresistible. By Romil Patel The delegates from the United Arab Emirates were in attendance at the Jenadrivah Heritage & Culture Festival in Riyadh, the Saudi capital,...