Kenya’s strategy in Somalia has always been something of a gamble, with a prudent military approach married to a more risky political arrangement. The success of the former, however, should not blind the Government to the inherent dangers of the latter. As we warned in the first week of April last year, when this newspaper reported exclusively...
By MARK BRUNSWICK Caring for a son with cerebral palsy, Fardosa Ibrahim wants other Somalis to move past the shame and isolation of dealing with people with disabilities. Four-year-old Khalid Dualeh’s room in an Edina apartment building is as cheerful as it can get. Ribbons hang from the ceiling. A cat, foot, butterfly and flower...
Ben Hamilton City of Liverpool carries out controlled explosion of suspicious package, but unable to control trigger-happy media The Danes get confused with the Dutch a lot, but not normally Somalis. But then again, the inhabitants of Hartlepool did once hang a monkey they thought was a French spy, so stranger things have happened in...
Muqdisho, july 5, 2013 (WDN)- Warka Radio Wardheer, Qodobbada warka aad ku maqli doontaan dhageystayaal waxaa ka mid ah,Wasiir ku xigeenka arrimaha dibadda Soomaaliya oo ka warbixiyay safar uu ku joogo Koonfur Afrika, Isku shaandheyn lafilayo in lagu sameeyo golaha wasiirrada Federaalka, afhayeenka maamulka Jubbaland oo ka hadlay xiisadaha dagaal ee Jubooyinka. iyo qoddobo kale.
Events in Egypt, where an elected Islamist president was ousted by the army, showed that power only comes from force, not democracy, Somali militant group al Shabaab said on Thursday. In comments on its Twitter account @HSMPRESS1, al Shabaab said the fate of Egypt’s ousted president, Mohamed Mursi, showed Islamists will not be allowed to rule,...
A judge said he respected religious beliefs but that the law of Ireland had to be observed as he sentenced a Somali man for slaughtering four goats in Halal fashion in a house in Tralee. By Anne Lucey Judge Carroll Moran imposed a one-year prison sentence on Somali asylum-seeker Rashid Kibaga for cruelty to animals,...
Kiflu Hussein If the detest for Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood came genuinely from Egyptians, I would welcome it since I detest ideologies constructed around ethnicity and religiosity. However, I simply can’t buy the economy as an excuse to sack Morsi. Even angels can’t sort out a shambolic economy botched up by a half century of...
The Economist AT FIRST glance Somalia’s foreign-backed government seems to be doing well. In the past two years it has benefited from the recovery of the country’s main cities by African Union peacekeepers after two decades of clan warfare and intermittent Islamist rule. And on June 29th the government pulled off something of a coup...
By Mark Doyle BBC International Development Correspondent The apparently accidental publication of a diplomatic letter has exposed a rift between the Somali government and Kenyan troops – supposedly allies. The letter, verified as genuine by the BBC, accuses the Kenyan army of causing recent faction fighting that left at least 65 dead in the port...
Muqdisho, july 4, 2013 (WDN)- Warka Radio Wardheer, Qodobbada warka aad ku maqli doontaan dhageystayaal waxa ka mid ah, Ra’isul Wasaare Saacid oo booqday Xasan Daahir Aweys, kana hadlay xaaladiisa, Midowga Afrika oo ciidamo isku dhaf ah gayn doona Kismaayo, Madaxweyne Faroole oo khudbad jeediyay, Mursi oo la afganbiyay xabsi gurina laga dhigay iyo qodobo kale.