BY: ALI SHARIATI It is the ninth day of Zul-Hijjah and the greater pilgrimage has started. Where are you? It does, not matter! Wherever you may be – at Masjid-ul-Haram near Kaaba, in your hotel or on the street – now you must depart for the greater pilgrimage. Wear your Ihram attire and leave Mecca. How...
April 18, 2026
Category: News
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Ethiopia PM Abiy’s party wins landslide victory in election
Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party won the most seats in Ethiopia’s parliamentary election, the election board said on Saturday, a victory that assures him another term in office. Abiy hailed the June 21 vote as the country’s first free and fair election after decades of repressive rule. However, an...
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Suspects in Hafsa kidnapping freed on Sh1 million bond
Hafsa Abdi Ahmed and Jackson Njogu Wanjiru had been charged with five counts of assault, abduction, conspiring to commit a felony, disabling and stealing from Hafsa Hafsa Ahmed and Jackson Njogu at Makadara law court Image: CORAZON WAFULA Two suspects in the kidnapping of a 23-year-old business woman have been freed on a bond of...
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Mogadishu police chief survives al-Shabab attack, several killed
Suicide car bombing targeted a convoy carrying the Somali capital’s police commissioner, officials say. At least four people have been killed and nine others wounded after a suicide car bombing targeted a convoy carrying Mogadishu’s police chief, according to Somali officials. Farhan Mohamud, the police commissioner, survived Saturday’s blast, police spokesman Sadiq Aden Ali said....
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Somali PM Roble visits Kismayu in electoral shuttle diplomacy
By Abdulkadir Khalif Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble made an unannounced two-day trip to Kismayu in Jubbaland federal state to continue preparations for the upcoming indirect elections. Accompanied by a big government delegation in tow, the Wednesday to Thursday trip was significant as Jubbaland faces a race against time to reconcile wrangling communities in Gedo...
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Nearly 600 rescued migrants disembark from charity boat in Italy
ROME (Reuters) – Hundreds of migrants rescued in the central Mediterranean disembarked on Friday in the southern Italian town of Augusta, in Sicily, after Rome-based maritime authorities agreed to give their ship a port. The Ocean Viking vessel, operated by SOS Mediterranee, carried 572 people, including around 180 minors, after picking them up in six...
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Newly designed vessels will keep fishers in Somalia safer at sea
Charting the course with innovative fishing vessels provided by FAO and the EU Mogadishu – FAO handed over a new inshore fishing vessel to the Jubaland Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources after a groundbreaking delivery trip from Bosaso to Kismayo, a voyage of over 1,000 Nautical miles. Three of these new vessels, designed by the...
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UN says Ethiopia’s PM vows ‘immediate’ aid access to Tigray
By CARA ANNA The humanitarian situation in Tigray, which faces the world’s worst famine crisis in a decade, is “extremely concerning,” the U.N. said after Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed spoke Thursday by phone. Abiy also said basic services to Tigray including electricity and communications “will resume swiftly,” the U.N. said....
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Hajj and Kabah Connecting the Believers
BY: SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR In every religious universe created by God through revelation, there exists a center for the followers of that religion, a center where Heaven and earth touch each other. For Islam, this center is the Kabah, where the vertical and horizontal axes of existence meet, where the Transcendent manifests Itself as the Center...
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Bulaburde: Some farmers affected by the floods that destroyed the canals
Nur Magan Mahdi and his family of 11 arrived in Buleburde district in Hiran region on June 10 this year. The farming family, who live in the village of Maralay, 3km from Buleburde, said the main reason for their displacement was that the canals they were irrigating had been destroyed by the flooding of the...