By Tom Perry and Yasmine Saleh CAIRO Egypt’s armed forces overthrew elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on Wednesday and announced a political transition with the support of a wide range of political, religious and youth leaders. After a day of drama in which tanks and troops deployed near the presidential palace as a military deadline...
Nairobi, July 3, 2013–A court in the capital of the semi-autonomous republic of Somaliland today convicted the manager and editor of the independent daily Hubaal of defamation and sentenced them to prison. Hubaal‘s editor, Hussein Hassan Abdullahi, received two years, while the paper’s manager, Mohamed Ahmed Jama, was sentenced to one year in jail on charges of defamation and...
West London warehouse workers who import the herb believe Somalis will suffer but others say drug is tearing society apart Ian Sample, science correspondent The delivery trucks arrive with heavy loads and jostle for room on the grit and mud as men stand around or sit on forklifts, some chatting, some smoking, until the time comes...
Muqdisho, july 3, 2013 (WDN)- Warka Radio Wardheer, Qodobbada warka aad ku maqli doontaan dhageystayaal waxa ka mid ah, Dagaallo ka dhacay magaalada Gaalkacyo, Madaxweyne Xasan Sh iyo beesha Habar-gidir oo ka wadahadlay arinta Xasan Daahir, Wararkii ugu danbeeyay ee banaanbaxyada Masar iyo qodobo kale oo caalami ah.
By A. N. WILSON Channel 4 is well known for gimmickry. Its latest trick is to have a month-long daily broadcast of the Muslim call to prayer. Does this cheer you up? Does it make you think what a happy, tolerant, multi-cultural society Britain has become? Or does Channel 4’s move nauseate you, as it does...
By Yasmine Saleh and Alastair Macdonald Egypt’s army commander and Islamist President Mohamed Mursi each pledged his life to defy the other as a deadline approached on Wednesday that will trigger a military takeover backed by protesters. The military chiefs, wanting to restore order in a country racked by protests over Mursi’s Islamist policies, issued...
By Tara McKelvey BBC News, Washington Three Somalis are on trial for piracy in Norfolk, Virginia, the home of the US Navy’s Atlantic fleet. Abukar Osman Beyle sat in a federal courtroom in Norfolk on a recent summer morning. The place was quiet, except for a jingle of keys and jewellery as men and women,...
Muqdisho, july 2, 2013 (WDN)- Warka Radio Wardheer, Qodobbada warka aad ku maqli doontaan dhageystayaal waxa ka mid ah, Madaxweyne Xasan Shiikh oo waraaqda aqoonsiga ka gudoomay safiirka cusub ee Ingiriiska, barlamaanka Soomaaliya oo kulan xasaasi ah yeeshay, Qaar ka mid ah dhaawacyada dagaaladii ka dhacay Kismaayo oo Muqdisho iyo Gaalkacyo la geeyay iyo qodobo kale...
By Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – An Iranian ship laden with arms seized by Yemeni authorities in January may also have been bound for Somalia, according to a confidential U.N. report seen by Reuters on Monday. Yemeni forces intercepted the ship, the Jihan 1, off Yemen’s coast on January 23. U.S. and...
WDN Editorial The capture of Sheikh Hassan D. Aweys on June 26, 2013 in Central Somalia is both a blessing and a curse for the government of Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud. If President Hassan shows an undue leniency towards the apprehended terrorist whom both the West and the Somali populace consider a mother lode of spy...