NAIROBI: The Twitter account of Somalia’s Al Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents was suspended Friday, the second time this year the Islamists have been pushed off the site. A message from Twitter on the English-language @HSMPress1 account read that the account was suspended, without elaborating. Earlier this week the group used the site to claim they had ambushed the...
Deqa Hassan, a 16-year-old girl who grew up in Brixton, London, among 20 injured in bomb blast and gunfight on streets of Cairo Adam Withnall A British teenager has had her leg amputated after she was caught in a bomb blast in Cairo. Deqa Hassan, 16, has spoken from her hospital bed about her horrific...
When Britain bans the herbal stimulant khat, Mohamod Ahmed Mohamed will lose his livelihood. But he fears most for his small Somali community without the leaf that fuels its social life. “I can switch to another business but what about the youth, where are they going to go — the street, the mosque, to hard...
By Nesru Jemal Dhaqabo Ebba, a retired farmer and well-known community elder from the Oromia region in Ethiopia, could be the oldest living person ever, says Mohammed Ademo after watching Ebba’s interview with TV Oromiya. ERTA has adapted his story as follows: At an estimated 160 years of age, Dhaqabo Ebba, a retired farmer and well-known...
MOGADISHU, Somalia — After a thorough investigation, a top international forensic accounting and legal team released a report today clearing the Somali government of corruption alleged by the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea. Responding to the July 12, 2013, Monitoring Group Report—specifically Annex 5.2 —forensic accountants from FTI Consulting, Inc., and a...
WRITTEN BY RICHARD MUGISHA Four months into his new job, the UPDF Commander Land Forces (CLF) Maj Gen David Muhoozi visited Ugandan troops under AMISOM in Somalia for the first time last week. In an interview with Richard Mugisha, the general gives his candid assessment of the mission in Mogadishu. Below are the excerpts: General, this is your...
By PAT HAGAN Children born to women who drink milk during pregnancy are more likely to be tall when they are teenagers, new research shows. A team of scientists who tracked babies born in the late eighties found their height during adolescence was directly related to how much milk their mothers consumed when they were in...
Come on, this is Tetrapod Zoology: you knew those asses would be of the equid kind, right? I don’t think there’s been much on Tet Zoo about equids yet, nor about perissodactyls at all (a crime, given my strong interest in fossil rhinos). See the links below, however. I’ve taken various wild ass photos at...
On 4 September 2013, off the coast of Mogadishu, the EU Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) Atalanta hosted the President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, on board the Dutch EU NAVFOR flagship, HNLMS Johan de Witt. The President, his Ministers and security commanders met with EU Special Envoy to Somalia, Michele Cervone d’Urso, the EU Naval...
Waagii hore xafladuhu wey iska yaraayeen oo meelaha dhallinta ay ka qaraaban jireen waxaa kamid ahaa goobaha lagu sheego muraad ama sab sida aroosyada, xusaska, wanqalka, Qur’aan akhriska, iyo guud ahaanba ducooyinka kala geddisan sida kuwa loo dhigo qof bukaan ah ama mid faataxada loo maraayo si uu hadafkiisa ugaaro ama cudur muddo lala tacaalayey...