By MADINAH: YUSUF MUHAMMAD An Ethiopian housemaid went on hunger strike in Madinah in an effort to return to her country as soon as possible. Khaled Al-Harbi, the sponsor of the housemaid, told Arab News that the maid arrived in Saudi Arabia on the fourth of Ramadan. “We have nothing to say against her,” Al-Harbi...
MOGADISHU(Xinhua) — Somali Foreign Minister Fawzia Yusuf on Monday headed a government delegation to China for an official visit, the first to the East Asian country by a senior official of the current administration of the Horn of Africa nation. Yusuf, who is also deputy prime minister, was accompanied in the trip to the Chinese...
By DR UNNI KARUNAKARA Our announcement on August 14 that we were closing all our medical programmes in Somalia sent shockwaves through political and humanitarian communities. It came at a time when world leaders, for the first time in decades, were beginning to make positive noises about a country on the road to recovery and with a...
By Gypsy Guillén Kaiser/CPJ Director of Advocacy and Communications Last week, as Egypt plunged deeper into political violence, CPJ recorded a sad statistic: the death of the 1,000th journalist in the line of duty since we began keeping records in 1992. While that benchmark death came amid a military raid, seven out of 10 killed journalists were in...
By Carima Nur I am shopping with my mother at Giant; the top of my braided head barely meets the counter of the register while my mother’s head soars high above my sights. We walk past the register, and begin to shop. As we pass the different aisles, I take a quick whiff of each...
After years of unrest and civil war, football in Somalia is set to enter into a new era with FIFA’s first development course in Mogadishu since 1986 finishing today, Monday 19 August 2013, in the city’s Banadir stadium. “This course represented a major milestone for our football,” Secretary General of the Somali Football Federation (SFF), Abdiqani Said...
KISMAYO/NAIROBI,(IRIN) – When bullets tore through the streets of Kismayo in June, leaving over 70 dead as rival militias twice fought for control of the Somali port city, many international aid agencies halted a cautious scale-up of activities. One of the few to stay was the World Health Organization (WHO). “For us, conflict means casualties....
BY Bettina Rühl/sk Somalia has had a legitimate government for the last 12 months and its economy is picking up. But this change for the better is having little impact on the lives of more than 300,000 displaced persons in Mogadishu. A densely populated emergency settlement of makeshift huts made of tree branches, plastic bags, sheeting,...
By ULLA KLOSTER Middle-aged men with high cholesterol are much more likely to suffer a heart attack than women of the same age with the same levels, according to new research. A study of more than 40,000 Norwegian men and women, published in the journal Epidemiology, shows that being a middle-aged man and having high cholesterol...
The top United Nations envoy in Somalia today expressed grave concern over allegations of rape at a facility of the African Union Mission in the country (AMISOM), and welcomed the Government’s investigation into the incident. “It is important that any investigation is rigorous and prompt. I am encouraged by the President of Somalia’s commitment to...