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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July 8, 2021July 8, 2021Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
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...
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July 8, 2021July 8, 2021Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
Supreme court rules to deport Somali man who was born and raised in Finland
FINLAND’S SUPREME COURT HAS RULED that a man of Somali heritage who was born and raised in Finland can be deported to Somalia, with the decision stating that the individual in question poses a threat to society due to his criminal convictions. The ruling comes at the end of a long appeals process instigated by the...
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July 8, 2021July 8, 2021Global News & Politics, Market Bazaar, News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
DP World expands footprint in Africa further, opens new container terminal in Somaliland
Growing its ever increasing footprint in Africa, integrated logistics solutions provider Dubai Ports World (DP World) and the government of Somaliland have inaugurated a new container provider at Berbera port. This follows the completion of the first phase of the port’s expansion plan, as part of its development into a major regional trade hub serving the Horn...
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July 8, 2021July 8, 2021Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
ETHIOPIA RECALLS DOZENS OF DIPLOMATS, CLOSES CONSULATES IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES
Addis Abeba– Addis Standard learned from sources close to the matter that Ethiopia is closing down a number of its diplomatic posts and recalling a number of diplomats from missions that will remain operational. The move comes three days after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Monday that Ethiopia will reduce the number of its overseas diplomatic...
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July 7, 2021July 7, 2021Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow
Report: With Piracy Receded, Illegal Fishing Returns to Somalian Waters
BY DAVID KLEIN Once the most pirate-infested region on the planet, the waters off the coast of Somalia are now home to a different maritime crime – illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, according to a new report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. “The waters off Somalia are some of the richest fishing grounds...
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July 7, 2021July 7, 2021Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow
Hundreds of Women, Girls Brutalized by Soldiers in Tigray War
By Heather Murdock MEKELLE, ETHIOPIA – The stories are eerily similar. Soldiers came to their homes and demanded to know the whereabouts of their husbands, fathers or brothers, insisting the men were fighters with Tigrayan forces at war with the government of Ethiopia. When the men were nowhere to be found, soldiers attacked wives, daughters and sisters. “They pointed a...
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July 7, 2021July 7, 2021Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow
Tunisia Pushing U.N. Action on Ethiopia Dam, Ethiopia Opposed
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) – Tunisia has proposed the U.N. Security Council push for a binding agreement between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt on the operation of a giant hydropower dam within six months, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters on Wednesday. Tunisia circulated the draft text to the 15-member Security Council...
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July 7, 2021July 7, 2021Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
Haitian president assassinated at home, sparking fears of widespread turmoil
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian President Jovenel Moise was shot dead by unidentified attackers in his private residence overnight in a “barbaric act”, the government said on Wednesday, stirring fears of escalating turmoil in the impoverished Caribbean nation. The assassination coincided with a wave of gang violence in Port-au-Prince as armed groups have battled with police...
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July 6, 2021July 6, 2021Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow
Ethiopian diplomat: PM Abiy Ahmed ‘misquoted’ on Kenya embassy closure
By Aggrey Mutambo & Tesfa-Alem Tekle The Ethiopian ambassador to Kenya now says Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was being hypothetical when he said the embassy in Kenya was among those to be shut down to save costs. Meles Alem Tekea said the mission in Kenya will not be closed, in line with his country’s foreign policy on regional...