By Suzi Ring Soma Oil & Gas Holdings Ltd. lost a court bid to force the U.K. Serious Fraud Office to end a bribery investigation into the company despite arguing that the firm may become insolvent if the probe continues. Lawyers for Soma sought a judicial review of the probe from a London court Wednesday,...
By Abdirahim Saeed & Deirdre Finnerty BBC World Service Farhiya was separated from her father when she was a baby She didn’t see him for nearly 40 years They were reunited thanks to a stranger on social media “Congratulations! We found your dad!” read an email in Farhiya’s inbox. “I couldn’t believe it when I...
Website claims candidate is married to two men, including her brother. By J. Patrick Coolican CARLOS GONZALEZ, STAR TRIBUNEIlhan Omar was greeted by supporters Minneapolis on the night she defeated Rep. Phyllis Kahn in a DFL primary election. Ilhan Omar, whose victory in a Minneapolis DFL primary last week virtually assured her of becoming the...
MOGADISHU, Nine Ugandan soldiers accused of misconduct while serving the Africa Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) were found guilty by court martial sitting in Mogadishu. A statement from AMISOM said on Tuesday that the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) Divisional Court Martial sitting in Mogadishu handed sentences ranging from a year to three years in...
By Sandisiwe Ntlemeza Cape Town – Angry residents of Asanda Village in Strand have vandalised and looted at least eight spaza shops owned by Somalis after a resident was shot dead, allegedly during a dispute with a shopkeeper. A witness, who asked to remain anonymous, said Siyabonga Jozana, 26, was killed during an argument after...
By JEFFREY GETTLEMANAUG NAIROBI, Kenya — United States forces assisted Somali commandos in killing several members of the Shabab militant group in an attack last week, an American military spokesman said on Tuesday, but it was not clear whether any high-level operatives had been eliminated. The raid took place last Wednesday, when a contingent of...
Hargeisa- NPR- In the unrecognized autonomous region of Somaliland, literacy is more than a educational goal. It’s an economic lifeline to the diaspora who provide most of the country’s economic support. Listen to NPR: Book Fair Aims To Help Change Somaliland’s Oral Culture Source: NPR
MOGADISHU, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) — Somali National Army (SNA) backed by Africa Union peacekeeping mission (AMISOM) on Monday captured four locations near Bardhere town in southern Somalia’s Gedo region from Al-Shabaab militant group. Somali Army Commander in the area, Osman Sheikh, told journalists in Mogadishu that the operation was aimed at liberating key areas where...
The second part of our report on Yemeni refugees in Somaliland looks at how they have become part of the breakaway region’s struggle for international recognition, leaving them in awkward limbo. By Amanda Sperber Nizar Foazi, the CEO of a local organization called Yemeni Community, brought his entire family from Yemen to Somaliland after the...
By Kristin Lord, FP As tweets and headlines skip from crisis to crisis, the largest youth population in human history is coming of age in a steady, unstoppable wave. While countries across Europe and East Asia are grappling with declining birthrates and aging populations, societies across the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia are experiencing...