Attacks by pirates off the coast of Somalia have been contained to an extent but long-term regional solutions are what the third conference to be held in Dubai this September will actively discuss and seek to address. Foreign ministers, senior government officials, executives of maritime companies, and leading security experts will attend the conference...
By MAYA RAO Four who entered council race this week have first or last names similar to DFL-backed candidate’s. Four new East African candidates filed papers this week to run for aMinneapolis City Council seat in the Sixth Ward, where longtime Council Member Robert Lilligren is locked in a fierce fight against another Somali contender who...
By Nicola Nasser The Israeli Jewish settlers of the Palestinian territory, which was occupied by Israel in 1967, are dictating unilaterally the demarcation of the borders with any future Palestinian state, thus rendering its creation impossible; holding the Israeli decision-making process hostage, they have become the real killers of peace, who brought the twenty –year...
Two Somali nationals were arraigned in court over separate cases of theft and damage to private property. Inspector Luke Bonello told Magistrate Giovanni Grixti, 16-year-old Abdinasir Noor Kinaan stole an iPhone 4s from Albert Nils Johan Karlstrom. The youth was also charged with handling stolen property. The court heard Kinaan plead not guilty and remanded...
Announcement comes amid security crackdown on pro-Morsi protesters which left at least 95 people dead nationwide. A state of emergency has been declared across Egypt, according to a presidential statement announced on state television. The state of emergency will begin at 4pm local time (14:00 GMT) and will last for a month, the statement said...
French Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) closed down all operations in Somalia Wednesday over attacks on its staff, accusing the Somalian leadership and armed groups of condoning “the killing, assaulting and abducting” of aid workers. Medical aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF) closed all its operations in war-torn Somalia on Wednesday, warning of...
BY JAY WEAVER A Miami-based FBI employee posed as a brother and sister who supported al-Qaida as a way to communicate in an Internet chat room with two men overseas. Now, the men are accused of plotting to finance the terrorist group’s battles in Syria and Somalia. The “online covert employee” assumed the role of...
W.Q.Burhaan Cali Marka uu ii muuqdo waan naxaa, marka uu ii soo dhawaadana jiririco ayaa tin iyo cirib i saaqda. Haddaan bannaan marayo waddada ayaan uga leexdaa, hadduu meel ciriiri ah igaga horyimaadana alla bari ayaan galaa anoo hiifaya oo haaraamaya oo mararka qaarkoodna nacladaya ayaan isweydaaranaa waa haddii xarig qoorta ugu xiranyahay saaxiibkiisna wado,...
Network to launch on Aug. 20, hoping to shed image borne post-9/11 After Mike Viqueira was hired as White House correspondent for Al Jazeera’s new American television venture, the former NBC News veteran braced for a barrage of negative reaction on Twitter. “I expected some comments from people unfamiliar with Al Jazeera,” Viqueira says. “Out...
By Ali Jimale Ahmed PhD I first heard of Abdi Latif Ega’s debut novel Guban last November, when, towards the conclusion of an event where I was the discussant of scholar Mahmood Mamdani’s new book Define and Rule, Mamdani asked me out of the blue: “Have you read Gubaan?” Unsure of what he was saying,...