Special Representative and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) Nicholas Kay. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe At a ceremony marking its first year in Puntland, the United Nations mission in Somalia today pledged its continued support as the country looks ahead to beginning the process of federalism aimed at building a stronger, more united Somalia. In Garowe, the State...
May 20, 2026
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Israel: Court permits right-wing protest near Muslim-Jewish wedding
Couple’s petition for injunction against protest rejected, demonstrators may not come within 200 meters of wedding hall. By Ilan Lior Wedding invitation published by the right-wing group Lehava on its Facebook page. The Rishon Letzion Magistrate’s Court on Sunday granted a right-wing activists group permission to hold a protest 200 meters from the wedding hall where a Muslim man was marrying...
Egypt says it has new ‘vision’ for Ethiopia’s dam
Egypt`s Irrigation minister Hossam El-Moghazi (Photo: Al-Ahram) Egypt’s Irrigation Minister Hossam El-Moghazi told privately owned Mehwar channel that Egypt has a new “vision” regarding Ethiopia’s planned Grand Renaissance Dam ahead of another round of talks in the Sudanese capital.In a phone interview, El-Moghazi said the Egyptian delegation will head to Khartoum on 24 August for two days of discussions.”Egypt...
Marriage: God’s gift to humanity
Bruneian Muslims pray during mass prayers in Jame’asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque in Bandar Seri Begawan, in this March 13, 2014 file picture. (Reuters) RAYA SHOKATFARD Marriage is an exclusive right given to human beings. Yet, mating would include all species — including even the plant kingdom. Why did God favor humans with such high honor? To begin with, we may...
My SMS relationship with al-Shabab
By Mary Harper Al-Shabab, the militant Islamist group operating in Somalia and Kenya, likes to communicate with journalists by SMS. But receiving their text messages and talking to them on the phone can be an unnerving, and at times surreal, experience. The other morning I woke up to a text message and missed call from al-Shabab. As always, the...
Kenya Airways to suspend flights to Freetown, Monrovia due to Ebola
Nairobi- (Reuters) – Kenya Airways will suspend flights to Liberia’s capital Monrovia and Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown due to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the company said on Saturday. The suspension of the flights will start at midnight on Tuesday Aug. 19, Kenya Airways said in a statement. The carrier, which is part-owned by Air France-KLM, flies a total...
Boko Haram abduct dozens of boys in northeast Nigeria: witnesses
By Lanre Ola (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist Boko Haram fighters have abducted dozens of boys and men in a raid on a remote village in northeast Nigeria, loading them onto trucks and driving them off, witnesses who fled the violence said on Friday. The kidnappings came four months after Boko Haram, which is fighting to reinstate a medieval Islamic caliphate...
UK ambassador ‘lobbied senators to hide Diego Garcia role in rendition’
Rights groups claim that top-level talks were part of bid to redact link to Diego Garcia from report By Jamie Doward Diego Garcia is the site of a major United States military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean leased from Britain in 1966. Photograph: Reuter Logs released under the Freedom of Information Act have reinforced claims that the UK lobbied...
Al-Sudais calls for code of conduct to curb violence
Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais The Kingdom’s top religious scholar has called for a global code of conduct for leaders, intellectuals and young people to halt a dangerous slide into chaos and violence. Addressing a large congregation at the Grand Mosque in Makkah during Friday prayers, Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais said there was an urgent need for an international charter to...