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...
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...
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,...
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....
(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...
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...
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,...
By Mike Puckett ________ Ku soodhawada magalada Louisville, Sahra iyo goyskeeda! These are the Somali words with which Beargrass and Kentucky Refugee Ministries greeted Sahra Mohammed Ali and her six children at the Louisville International Airport late on the evening of February 21 (English translation: Welcome to Louisville, Sahra and family!). Twenty adults and youth...
Nairobi, March 27, 2013 ( WRW)– Members of state security forces and armed groups have raped, beaten, and otherwise abused displaced Somalis who have arrived in Somalia’s capital fleeing famine and armed conflict since 2011, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The new Somali government should urgently improve the protection and security of...
Gunmen kill female journalist in Somalia; 3 media workers killed so far in 2013 ____________ MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A media colleague says that gunmen in Somalia have shot and killed a female Somali journalist. Abdikarim Ahmed Bulhan, the director of Abudwak radio in central Somalia, said Monday that two men armed with pistols...