NAIROBI (AFP) – Somalia’s Al Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents on Wednesday celebrated the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks with a Twitter eulogy for the “courageous” hijackers. In a series of posts on Twitter, the Islamists vowed “the mujahideen will continue with their jihad against the West until the world is ruled by one sovereign...
BERLIN (AFP)- Somali-born activist and former supermodel Waris Dirie on Wednesday opens a centre in Germany to treat victims of female genital mutilation, which she was subjected to as a child. About 8,000 young girls are circumcised every day in Africa and the Middle East, and the Desert Flower Medical Center, located in a Berlin...
Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya Mudane Xasan Sheekh Maxamuud, ayaa maanta qudbad ka jeeediyey furitaanka shirka ka hortagga Burcad Badeedda oo maanta ka furmay magaaladda Dubay ee Isutagga Imaaraadka Carabta. Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda, ayaa marka hore u mahad celiyey dowladda Imaraadka Carabta oo sanad walba qabata Shirkan iwaxaanu yidhi, ” Aad ayaan uga mahad-celinayaa Dowladda Imaraadka shirkan...
ABU DHABI: Much has been done to tackle the problems caused by maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia, but more needs to done to build the capacity of Somalia and its neighbours to control their own shores and patrol their own waters, the UAE Foreign Minister, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, said on...
By Ramola Talwan Badam DUBAI // Help free our men is the appeal to the international community from the relatives of hostages being held by Somali pirates for nearly three years. The pirates still want money but there is nothing in our hands to pay them,” said Fatima Farhana, a Sri Lankan schoolteacher and the...
Ismail Ali Ismail (Geeldoon) Mr. Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud was elected a year ago as the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia upon the lapse of a long ‘Transitional Period’. He defeated the incumbent Sheikh Sharief Sheikh Ahmed fairly and squarely in a transparent electoral process. Although the independence, sovereignty, political unity and territorial integrity...
NAIROBI: Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shabab insurgents returned to Twitter Tuesday after their account last week was shut for a second time this year. The extremists, who are fighting the internationally-backed government in Mogadishu, sent an email message confirming that @HSM_Press was their new English-language account. It welcomed followers by accusing “disbelievers” of wanting to extinguish “Allah’s...
NAIROBI: Chefs from Denmark’s world famous Noma restaurant have launched an appeal to support a colleague in war-torn Somalia after his establishment was targeted again by Al-Qaeda inspired insurgents. The Village, set up in 2008 by restaurateur Ahmed Jama in Somalia’s dangerous capital Mogadishu, was last week attacked for the third time by Islamist Shabab...
A US couple has been convicted of the manslaughter of a teenage girl they adopted from Ethiopia. Larry and Carri Williams, of Washington state, starved and beat Hana Williams until she died in the backyard of their home in May 2011. They were also convicted of first-degree assault of a younger boy they had adopted...
Islamic extremists from the Al Shabaab rebel group are suspected of killing a Christian woman in one town last week and kidnaping a 13-year-old boy from another, sources said. According to a story by Morning Star News, the militants, who have vowed to rid Somalia of its underground church, are suspected of killing Fatuma Isak Elmi,...