NAIROBI, Kenya — An upscale mall popular with the Kenyan elite and the foreign diplomats and businesspeople who call Nairobi home turned into a war zone on Saturday, as gunmen opened fire on shoppers in an apparent terrorist attack, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens more. At nightfall, the mall remained sealed off...
Kulanti wacan oo wanaagsan dhageystayaal meel kasta oo aad joogtaan, Qoddobada warka maanta aan idiinku hayno waxaa ka mid ah, Madaxweynaha Soomaaliya oo kulama la qaatay madaxda Dalka mareykanka, Wasaaradda adeegga Bulshada ayaa iska fogeysay eedeymo kaga imaanayay howl-wadeennada Isbitaalka hooyada iyo dhallaanka ee Banaadir , Weerarro sababay dhimasho iyo dhaawaca dad ajnabi iyo rayid ah oo...
A Somali man from Minneapolis was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Nashville on Friday for conspiracy to commit credit card fraud immediately after he pleaded guilty to the charge. Yahya Jamal Ahmed, 25, was sentenced to time served and three years of supervised release. He had spent about 22 months in custody. Prosecutors said...
Patrolling by navies has put Somali pirates under pressure By Sunil K. Vaidya On Board INS Mysore: Piracy in the Indian ocean is on the wane but issues on land in Somalia need to be resolved to completely eradicate the problem and create safe passage for a large part of the world’s maritime traffic that passes...
Washington DC, USA 20.09.2013 -The president of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud currently in a working visit to USA met with the Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, National Security Adviser Susan Rice,and several congressmen led by Hon. Keith Ellision of Minnesota The meetings took place at...
Marthe van der Wolf ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia, which currently chairs the African Union, says it supports the push by Kenya for African countries to jointly withdraw from the International Criminal Court. The ICC has put Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto on trial for alleged crimes against humanity, while President Uhuru Kenyatta is scheduled to go...
WASHINGTON, (KUNA) — US Secretary of State John Kerry welcomed president of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, at the Department of State Friday, and reaffirmed America’s commitment to the reconstruction of the war-torn African nation. “The United States, obviously, has been engaged in helping Somalia fight back against tribal terror and the challenges to the cohesion...
Mississauga dad wants help to free his Canadian-born sons, sent to visit their grandmother, from an African prison. By: Gemma Karstens-Smith Two Mississauga teens have been jailed in Africa for more than a month, their father says, since taking a summer trip to visit their grandmother. Mohamed Noor sent sons Liiban, 18, and Jamal, 15, to...
BY ABDI GULED MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Mohamed Nor’s phone rings constantly, kept busy by the property hunters who want to own a piece of Mogadishu. Other clients sit on a chaise longue inside his airy office in the battle-scarred Somali capital, waiting patiently for the real estate agent’s attention. “Yes, we have any sort of...
By Mohamed Sheikh Nor Somalia named Yussur Abrar as the country’s first female central bank governor, replacing Abdusalam Omer, who resigned after a United Nations monitoring group accused him of mismanaging the government’s money. Abrar has spent the past 30 years working for international banks and insurance companies, Shador Hajji, a press officer in the presidency...