By Kazungu Chai KAMPALA, UGANDA: President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged Africa to remain focused on rooting out Al Shabaab and stabilizing Somalia. President Uhuru said he saw no room for wavering or distraction on the objective of curbing Al Shabaab‘s heinous acts of terrorism in which people, mainly in East Africa, had lost lives and property destroyed. “Our first, second and third priorities...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Regional leaders say they want Somalia’s central government to take control of Kismayo, a disputed port city where there has been fighting between rival militias. African leaders said in a statement at the end of a summit in Uganda that control of Kismayo’s seaport and airport “should be handed over” to...
By SUZANNAH HILLS A UKIP candidate is facing calls to resign after claiming the solution to crime in Britain is sharia law and thieves should have their hands cut off. Self-employed builder and UKIP activist Dean Perks, prospective candidate for Halesowen and Rowley Regis, shocked supporters at a rally when he suggested the brutal punishment as a...
Muqdisho, August 4, 2013 (WDN)- Warka Radio Wardheer, Qodobbada warka aad ku maqli doontaan dhageystayaal waxaa ka mid ah, Madaxweynaha Soomaaliya Xasan Shiikh Maxamuud oo la kulmay dhigiisa Uganda Museveni iyo shirka madaxda ay ciidamada ka joogaan Soomaaliya oo Kampala ka furmay, Ra’iisul wasaare Cabdi Faarax Shirdoon Saacd iyo qaar ka mid ah wasiirrada iyo taliyayaasha...
BY ZERYHUN KASSA Researchers have produced a variety of barley that makes Ethiopia’s staple bread injera just as well as the traditional cereal teff, according to taste tests. Injera, thin spongy flat bread, is made of a grain called teff. Teff makes the best injera, and although it can also be made from cheaper alternatives...
KAMPALA- Foreign and defense ministers from troop contributing countries to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) met here Saturday to discuss ways to coordinate their ongoing operations in the volatile horn of African country. Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa, who is also chair of the meeting,said at the opening of the one-day meeting that...
By Raymond Baguma KAMPALA – The Foreign affairs minister, Sam Kutesa has called for the expansion of the African Union Mission in Somalia’s (AMISOM) troop numbers, to enable them consolidate the territory so far captured from the Al-shabaab terrorist group. Minister Kutesa was on Saturday addressing a ministerial meeting for AMISOM troop contributing countries which preceded...
By JOSEPH CELENTINO CHICAGO (CN) – Two men who distributed a drug-containing plant, popular in Somalia but largely unknown in the United States, out of an Indianapolis coffee shop cannot overturn drug conspiracy convictions, the 7th Circuit ruled. “This case introduces a new drug culture to the Seventh Circuit: the underground world of ‘khat,'” Judge...
By NICHOLAS KULISH NAIROBI, Kenya — Compared with the trillions of dollars flowing through the international financial system every day, the estimated $1.3 billion sent each year from small storefronts in Somali neighborhoods in places like London and Minneapolis to families back home in the Horn of Africa is a mere droplet. In a country...
Muqdisho, August 3, 2013 (WDN)- Warka Radio Wardheer, Qodobbada warka aad ku maqli doontaan dhageystayaal waxaa ka mid ah, Wafdi uu hoggaaminayo madaxweynaha Soomaaliya Xasan Shiikh oo gaaray Kampala si ay ugu qeyb galaan shir muhiim u ah Soomaaliya ,qarax ciiddamada AMISOM lagula eegtay Shabeelaha Hoose,,Madaxweyinihii hore ee Puntland Cadde Muuse Xirsi oo beeniyay eedeyn uu...