By Louis Charbonneau A confidential report by U.N. monitors accuses Kenyan soldiers in the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia of facilitating illegal charcoal exports from the port city of Kismayu, a business that generates millions of dollars a year for Islamic militants seeking to topple the government. The case of the failed ban on...
Ethiopian opposition activists said Saturday they will hold rare demonstrations in two northern towns calling for government reform in the tightly controlled country. The planned demonstrations, due to be held Sunday in the towns of Gondar and Dessie, follow protests last month in the capital Addis Ababa when several thousand activists called for the release...
Somalia’s al-Shabaab group has banned samosas after ruling the popular snacks are ‘offensive’ and too Christian. Militant Islamist fighters last week used vehicles mounted with loudspeakers to announce the bizarre ruling across the regions of the war-torn country it controls. The extremist group has offered no official explanation for the ban on the triangular snacks,...
Muqdisho, july 13, 2013 (WDN)- Warka Radio Wardheer, Qodobbada warka aad ku maqli doontaan dhageystayaal waxaa ka mid ah, Wakiilka qaramada midoobay ee xafiiska siyaasadda Soomaaliya oo booqasho ku tagay Garowe, saraakiil ka tirsan booliiska dalka oo ka warbixiyay qasaaraha ka dhashay qaraxii ismiidaaminta ahaa ee shalay lagu qaaday ciidamadA AMISOM, Midowga Yurub oo lacago ugu...
Vince Chadwick Police will reopen a professional standards investigation after a court found a senior constable from Stawell had assaulted a young Somali man – punching him in the face and fracturing his jaw. A magistrate found that Mohamed Hassan, then 20, was the victim of an unlawful assault by a police officer when he...
Greatest runner of all time says democracy can’t come overnight as he targets a new career in politics. But he hopes he can lift the pace of progress David Smith “Yichalal” is a word made popular in Ethiopia by Haile Gebrselassie, arguably the finest distance runner ever to grace track or road. It means “it is possible”,...
One Act Play Written by Abdirahman Yusuf Artan Translated by Zahra Jibril The Action in the play is taking place one of the cities in United Kingdom Characters in the play Milgo: Hodon’s mother from a former Husband 35 years Alin: Milgo’s Husband 50 years Anab: Milgo’s cousin 40 Ali: Anab’s son 17 Amina: Anab’s daughter 19 Mukhtar: neighborhood friend 22 Ahmed: neighborhood friend 18 Naimo: neighborhood...
The three judges of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously in the case of Mohammad Saaili Shibin, who has been sentenced to 12 life terms for his pivotal role in two hijackings, which included the slaying of four Americans on their yacht off Somalia. RICHMOND, Va. — A panel of federal judges...
No injuries have been reported but a cordon has been set up after nails and other debris discovered LEWIS SMITH A suspected nail bombing of a mosque in the West Midlands on the first Friday of Ramadan is being treated by police as a terrorist attack. Nails and other debris were discovered after residents close...
Muqdisho, july 12, 2013 (WDN)- Warka Radio Wardheer, Qodobbada warka aad ku maqli doontaan dhageystayaal waxaa ka mid ah, Qarax ismiidaamin ah oo lagu qaaday kolonyo ay leyihiin AMISOM oo Muqdisho ka dhacay, Wasiirka arrimaha gudaha oo ka warbixiyay shirkii ay Somaliland kula yeesheen waddanka Turkiga, kooxaha Islaamiyiinta Suuriya oo dilay mid ka mid ah hoggaamiyaasha...