Remittances tell a story of sacrifice, families divided and massive bank penalties ‘Diaspora savings attributed to migrants from developing countries were estimated at €464 billion in 2013, mostly held in the banks of states to which they have migrated.’ Photograph: Getty Images By Patrick Smyth Keith Ellison, a Minnesota congressman, is worried about Ayan Hasan...
October 23, 2026
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Western girls holiday in Kenya to undergo FGM in secret
Somali families living in Britain and the United States are bringing their daughters to Kenya to secretly undergo female genital mutiliation (FGM) as their home countries crack down on the internationally condemned practice. Families pay up to $300 for a girl’s genitals to be cut, said circumcisers and an anti-FGM campaigner in Nairobi’s Eastleigh district,...
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What’s behind al-Shabaab’s mall-attack video? Fear that it’s no longer relevant
Tom Maguire Al-Shabaab has appealed to jihadis to target public places in the west because it fears losing the propaganda war to Isis. Here’s how we should respond Why has al-Shabaab produced a video urging sympathisers to attack shopping malls in western countries now? The answer may lie in its desire to be seen as...
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The Citizen`s Notebook: In Ethiopia and the SRS, You Can Talk about Anything but Politics
By Mohamed R. Awale I have to make rare confessions for the benefit of public record and nuance. I had been absent from the political forums of the online and social media in the recent past and there was a good reason: I went back home after leading a regimented life in the diaspora for...
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Al-Shabab’s Finances: The Militant Group Gets Funding From Local Businesses, Sources Abroad
By Kathleen Caulderwood A complex finance network that includes everything from fake charities to kidnapping has supported the East African militant group al-Shabab’s activities over the past few years. It’s difficult to know specifics because the group doesn’t exactly file quarterly reports, but experts say these sources of capital have been essential to al-Shabab’s growth, and...
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Ethiopia : a leadership in disarray
By RENÉ LEFORT It may be that, in Ethiopia, history is so powerful that the past permeates the present, and it repeats itself. In this case, what we see today is simply another interregnum between two powerful men. “Can you tell me who is in charge in the government?”, asks Tamrat Gebregiorgis, publisher of the...
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COSTLY PROTOCOL IRREGULARITIES OF PUNTLAND ADMINISTRATIONS
By Ismail H. Warsame It has become an intoxication fashion for Puntland successive administration leaders to indulge in prohibitively expensive state receptions and send-off of the head of the Government whenever he steps out of the Capital or returns to it. Even a short working visit from a region requires mobilization of the entire residents...
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Ethiopia: Silence, Pain, Lies and Abductions
By Muktar M. Omer Template denials The Ethiopian Government, through its foreign ministry, responded to Martin Plaut’s article “Silence and Pain: Ethiopia’s human rights record in the Ogaden” with the usual feigned shock and template denial that has long characterized the regime’s political personality. It is the established behavior of aggressive and autocratic regimes to...
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Why Nairobi
By BRONWYN BRUTON The attack on Nairobi’s Westgate mall is a vicious development in the war on terrorism: It signals the evolution of an unpopular splinter faction of a radical Somali group into a truly transnational terrorist organization. It also marks a major failure for the United States’ counterterrorism strategy in Somalia. Not understanding the mixed...
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Ethiopia: Asking ‘Why’ in the Land of ‘No Why’
Muktar M. Omer Email: muktaromer@ymail.com Only Boethius – that Roman philosopher of fickle fate and the vicissitudes of fortune – could have consoled a puny man in Ethiopia, who woke up to the malignancy of fate on the first week of May 2013. Boethius sat at the pinnacles of power in Rome before treachery brought him...