By Scott Daugherty The Virginian-Pilot NORFOLK Federal prosecutors want three Somali pirates put to death. Armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, Ahmed Muse Salad, Abukar Osman Beyle and Shani Nurani Shiekh Abrar hijacked a yacht off the coast of Africa in 2011 and killed the four Americans aboard – Scott Adam, Jean Adam, Phyllis...
Christine Schofield and Lynne Latham AMMAN, Jordan, – AAIB Insurance has become the first insurance broker to receive a licence to trade in Somalia The company received its ‘Special Permit And Service Certificate Of Registration As A Business’ from the Somali Ministry of Commerce and Industry in June. The permit means that AAIB is the only...
Jim Paulin, Dutch Harbor Fisherman Is khat catching on among seafood industry workers trying to stay awake while working long hours of overtime, joining a long list of more familiar stimulants from coffee to pharmaceutical amphetamines? Maybe. Khat, a drug well known in east Africa, has likely made another appearance in Unalaska. On June 30,...
By: Nick Martin Just how old is Manitoba soccer phenom Ali Musse? Musse plays on Canada’s national under-17 team and has already competed internationally with a passport showing him born in Somalia in 1996. But both the Canadian and Manitoba soccer associations at one time believed Musse was born in 1994. There’s been online chatter...
By Kiflu Hussain I just read a very thoughtful article titled “Are you Oromo First or Ethiopian First?”Authored by Awol Allo and published by The web of Legal Theory Group of Glasgow University. The piece enabled me to distance myself from the cantankerous exchanges as seen on social media between those of us who are...
Reuters – The governor of the Central Bank of Somalia said on Thursday he had asked the United Nations for help in conducting an independent audit of the nascent institution after U.N. monitors described it as a “slush fund” for private purposes. U.N. experts, who monitor Security Council sanctions on Somalia and Eritrea, reported that...
By Jason Beaubien Somalia hadn’t had a case of polio for nearly six years. But in the past few months, the virus has come back. Now the East African country has the worst polio outbreak anywhere in the world. Twenty new cases of polio were reported this week in Somalia by the Global Polio Eradication...
Project aims at rebuilding war-torn nation’s rich literary history one story at a time. By: Michelle Shephard It is hard to imagine the faded yellow building, where a few families eke out an existence, was once Somalia’s National Library. Mogadishu’s ruins blend one building to the next, so there is little to distinguish it from...
NEW YORK (AFP) – UN sanctions experts have complained to the UN Security Council that Facebook refuses to answer questions about ship hijackings suspected to be organized on social media sites. In a new report released Friday, the experts — who monitor a UN arms embargo against Somalia as well as sanctions against accused pirates...
Summary More broadly in Somalia, several spoiler networks have emerged. In northern Somalia, with the general decline of pirate activity a network of individuals, including known pirate leaders, is engaged in providing private security forunlicensed fishing vessels in Somali waters and is connected to weapons smuggling and Al-Shabaab networks in north-eastern Somalia. In the east-central...