The first case of a child being trafficked to Britain in order to have their organs harvested has been uncovered. By Steven Swinford The unnamed girl was brought to the UK from Somalia with the intention of removing her organs and selling them on to those desperate for a transplant. Child protection charities warned that the case was unlikely to be...

BY ABDI GULED MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A Somali police official says at least 12 people have been killed after a suicide bomber detonated explosives in a small restaurant north of the capital. Mohamed Abdi said Saturday the attack in the city of Beledweyne, about 339 kilometers (210.65 miles) north of Mogadishu, also wounded at least 10 others. The city is...

A Somali man was critically injured in a fight at City Gate yesterday evening. The police said the Somali man, 27, was hit with a garbage bin during an argument with another Somali. He was treated at Mater Dei Hospital. His injuries were found to be serious during the night. Police investigations are under way. Source: Time of Malta

A French court sentenced three Somalis Friday to nine years in prison for the 2009 hijacking of a French yacht. The defendants’ request for leniency on the grounds that they were forced into piracy by abject poverty was rejected by prosecutors. A French court on Friday sentenced three Somali pirates to nine years in prison each for the 2009 hijacking...

By Robyn Dixon and Alexandra Sandels JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A Somali-born Norwegian said to be a suspect in a deadly assault on a Kenyan shopping mall was described Friday by former classmates and others who knew him as an observant Muslim who struggled to fit in after his family fled their troubled homeland. Norway’s TV-2 reported that 23-year-old Hassan Abdi...

Ethiopia unveiled Friday the first phase of a space exploration programme, which includes East Africa’s largest observatory designed to promote astronomy research in the region. “The optical astronomical telescope is mainly intended for astronomy and astrophysics observation research,” said observatory director Solomon Belay. The observatory, which will formally be opened on Saturday, boasts two telescopes, each one metre (over three...

By HUGO GYE Jordan Horner was part of the ‘Muslim Patrol’ which wandered around Tower Hamlets late at night threatening people for drinking beer. The group said they wanted to ‘kill non-believers’ and said they would stab revellers, as well as uploading YouTube videos in which they criticised non-Muslims for what they were wearing. Horner, 19, was previously jailed for six...

OLIVER WRIGHT  , KENFREY KIBERENGE IN NAIROBI Trader claims criminalising stimulant herb violates human rights of African users in UK The Home Secretary, Theresa May, is being sued in a case funded by the Kenyan government after she criminalised a herbal stimulant using by thousands of Africans living in Britain. Earlier this year the Home Office announced a ban on the import,...

A member of the Somali community in Cardiff told our reporter Rob Osborne that he is shocked by the claim from al-Shabaab that it has recruited members from Cardiff – as “I have not come across anybody who would have sympathy with a terrorist organisation.” “I haven’t heard of anybody being radicalised. In the past there were people who attempted...