Ethiopia’s dam is completely made of concrete, which decreases its safety factors and raises the potential for its collapse, a water resources expert has said. The Nile River is an international river and is registered at the World Bank, therefore Ethiopia has no right to build dams on the river with Egypt’s and Sudan’s consent, a water resources professor at...

The administration has decided that one of the two Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels patrolling against pirates off Somalia will join a combined drill involving the United States and other countries, a government source said. The move is aimed at raising Japan’s profile on the international stage, the source said Friday, adding it will be the first time an MSDF vessel...

By BERTHA KANG’ONG’OI Special Correspondent In Ainabo, about 400km from the Somaliland capital Hargeisa, half of the population is comprised of internal refugees displaced by conflict and drought. Hassan Sa’ed, the mayor of Oog, a small town within Ainabo, says the resources in the area have been strained by the influx of the IDPs. “Our main needs are water and pasture,”...

NAIROBI (AFP) –  Nine people were killed on Friday night in fresh inter-clan violence in northeastern Kenya’s border region with war-torn Somalia, police said on Saturday. “Nine people were killed, four in Mandera and five in Wajir,” a police officer who declined to be named told AFP. “The two incidents are related because the second one was a retaliatory attack...

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari discussed with the Somali Charge d’affaires, Khadija Al-Makhzoumi, bilateral relations between Iraq and Somalia. The Iraqi Foreign Ministry pointed out in a statement received by Iraqi News (IraqiNews.com) “Zebari, during a meeting with the Somali official, discussed bilateral relations between the two countries,” noting that “Zebari expressed his ministry’s readiness to provide...

The Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘phobia’ as an “extreme or irrational fear or dislike of a specified thing or group”. On September 11, 2001, thousands were killed in New York City by terrorists acting in the name of Islam, an atrocity which inflamed a phenomenon that continues unabated in society today. Now Islamophobia is back at the forefront of public...

By Ron Zeitlinger/The Jersey Journal  A Bayonne man was sentenced yesterday to 18 months in prison for lying to federal officials investigating a North Bergen man and an Elmwood Park man who were planning to kill on behalf of a Somalia terrorist group. Mohamed Osman, 21, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Dickinson R. Debevoise on Sept. 15, 2010, to making...

Police are expanding an outreach program with the Somali community in north Toronto after last week’s massive raid on a Dixon Road apartment complex. Two female officers will join the team of four male officers who currently work in the neighbourhood to ease communication between police and the community, which has a large Somali population. The Somali Liaison Program, an...