By O. Ibrahim Dear Sirs; I would like to draw your attention to the disgraceful incident which happened in Garissa city, Kenya where over 200 people including 11 county councilors were rounded up, detained, raped and tortured by Kenyan army on 23/ 04/ 2013 . This shameful and indiscriminate act of violence against the whole Kenya-Somalis is...
By Moses Michira GARISSA, KENYA: Detectives in troubled Garissa town say a booming black market could be the main cause of the incessant violence. The illegal trade is on household products such as sugar, which is imported tax-free. Investigations into the recent wave of killings in Garissa town that have claimed dozens of Government workers...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A most-wanted American jihadi in Somalia said Friday that the leader of Islamic extremist rebels in Somali was starting a civil war, just hours after an assassination attempt left the Alabama native with a neck wound. Omar Hammami posted on Twitter about what he labeled an assassination attempt late Thursday as...
By Richard Lough MOGADISHU (Reuters) – In a sign of growing optimism that Somalia is winning a struggle against pirates and al Qaeda-linked insurgents, Britain opened an embassy on Thursday in a set of four metal cabins at Mogadishu airport. It was the first such move by a Western power since Somalia began to emerge...
By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia will withdraw its troops from Somalia soon, its prime minister said on Tuesday, voicing frustration with the Mogadishu government and African Union peacekeeping forces that are also battling Islamist militants there. After waging an ill-fated war in Somalia in 2006-2009, Ethiopia in 2011 once again rolled troops...
By Elaine Ganley Associated Press Battered by a French-led military campaign in Mali, al-Qaida’s North African arm is trying something new to stay relevant: Twitter. The PR campaign by the terror network seeks to tap into social grievances and champion mainstream causes such as unemployment, all in bid to reverse decline and win new followers....
PRESS RELEASE NSUM Since its independence, Somalia had all sorts of leaders- the giants, the mediocre, the democrats and the dictator. Whatever their standing in the eyes of the Somali people, what they had all in common was their sworn commitment to the unity of the country. Siyad Barre, the dictator, was one of its...
By Jaweed Kaleem In the days since two deadly bombs and the separate shootings that followed brought Boston to a standstill, the region’s Muslim community has loudly condemned the violence and distanced itself from the suspects. The reasons behind the explosions at the Boston Marathon Monday and the shootings in Cambridge and Watertown, Mass., Friday, which resulted in four...
By MUGUMO MUNENE _________ If you had told Mr Aden Duale in 2005 that he would one day hold one of the most powerful political offices in the country, the businessman would most probably have dismissed you as a lunatic. The possibility had not entered his mind when he switched from business to politics that...
BY MARK MAZZETTI ______________ In her telling of the story, the details of which a former American government official confirmed, she was sitting in her suite at the Djibouti Palace Kempinski, the only five-star hotel in the tiny, impoverished nation. The hotel was hosting an international conference to select the next leaders of Somalia’s anemic...