By Dr. Ali Bahar Society is produced by our wants, and government is produced by our wickedness. The former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections; the latter promotes it negatively. The former is a patron, the latter is a punisher. Thomas Paine in his book, “common Sense.” We are watching with shock and...
November 14, 2026
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Life as a Somali Nomad Motivates Starbucks Partner to Help Children
Asha Farah, spent the first 11 years of her life as a nomad in Somalia. For half the year, she chased the rainfalls and raised livestock with her mother and siblings. Their only shelter was a portable house made of bent sticks, dried grass and woven mats. “As a child, my daily life focused on...
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Kenya loses patience over Dadaab refugee camp housing displaced Somalis
Home to 351,000 seen as a breeding ground for al-Shabaab militants Catrina Stewart Events that led Dagane Kenedid to Kenya from his village in Somalia in the early 1990s mark the most gruelling period of his life. Armed men swept into his village with murderous intent, killing four of his brothers and making off...
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Somali-Americans confronting cultural and social change in their new home
From left: Young Somali-Americans show off traditional attire and musical instruments during Somali Day; Osman Ali, founder and curator of the Somali Museum of Minnesota; Nimo Hussein Farah, 30, is a spoken word performer. PHOTOS | COURTESY By BEATRICE KANGAI Gulled Ahmed stood on the stage set up on the street and waved to the crowd...
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Kenya’s economic growth slows to 5.3 pct in 2014
Nairobi, (Reuters) – Kenya’s economic growth slowed to 5.3 percent in 2014 from 5.7 percent in the previous year, hurt by a contraction in tourism and weaker agricultural output, a cabinet minister said on Wednesday. East Africa’s biggest economy has struggled with challenges that have hurt its key foreign exchange earners, including periodic droughts that...
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‘When I was rescued, I felt like I was born again’ – Ali’s story
An Amnesty International delegation has just returned from the Italian island of Lampedusa and elsewhere in Sicily, after collecting the testimonies of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers rescued in the high seas of the central Mediterranean. Over the past fortnight, hundreds of people are feared to have lost their lives at sea, with more than...
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Ethiopia’s Economic Miracle Is Running out of Steam
By Robert Looney Why it’s time for East Africa’s big success story to change the way it does business. Just over 30 years ago, Ethiopia’s famine regularly made the news. Gruesome accounts of up to a million deaths stemming from drought and civil war captured the attention of aid agencies, sympathetic governments, and humanitarian groups around...
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New York Times wins Pulitzers for West Africa Ebola
NEW YORK | By Ellen Wulfhorst (Reuters) – The New York Times won two prestigious Pulitzer prizes on Monday for coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, described by the Pulitzer board as courageous and vivid journalism that engaged the public and held authorities accountable. The Pulitzer for Public Service, announced at Columbia University,...
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Turning Ethiopia’s desert green
A generation ago Ethiopia’s Tigray province was stricken by a famine that shocked the world. Today, as Chris Haslam reports, local people are using ancient techniques to turn part of the desert green. In the pink-streaked twilight, a river of humanity is flowing across Tigray’s dusty Hawzien plain. This cracked and desiccated landscape, in Ethiopia’s...
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Kenya demands U.N. removes massive Somali refugee camp
BY DUNCAN MIRIRI An aerial view shows an extension of the Ifo camp, one of the several refugee settlements in Dadaab, Garissa County, northeastern Kenya, October 7, 2013. REUTERS/SIEGFRIED MODOLA Kenya has given the United Nations three months to remove a camp housing more than half a million Somali refugees, as part of a get-tough response...