Their car veered off the road into the water. Family and friends who stood vigil prepared to gather again to bury the women. By Erin Adler and Mara Klecker SUBMITTED PHOTOS Gallery: Bushra Abdi (left) and Zeynab (Hapsa) Abdalla both 19, had been missing since early Saturday. Two 19-year-old cousins whose bodies were pulled from a Chaska pond Sunday...
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October 13, 2018October 13, 2018News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
DP World investment boosts Somaliland’s push for sovereignty
President Muse Behi Abdi hopes other global firms will follow suit in breakaway region By Charlie Mitchel Muse Behi Abdi, president of Somaliland, speaks at the presidential palace in Hargeisa on October 10,2018. Pawan Singh / The National DP World’s $442 million expansion of Berbera port in Somaliland will put the breakaway state on the path to formal independence from Somalia,...
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October 10, 2018October 10, 2018Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow
Apple Watch, hired jet, mystery vehicle figure in search for missing Saudi dissident
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Jamal Khashoggi believed he was safe in Turkey. Khashoggi, a veteran Saudi journalist and newspaper editor, had lived in exile in Washington for more than a year, writing a column for the Washington Post in which he regularly criticized his country’s crackdown on dissent, its war in Yemen and sanctions imposed on...
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October 6, 2018October 6, 2018Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow
Senate confirms Kavanaugh for Supreme Court; to be sworn in on Saturday
Richard Cowan, Amanda Becker, David Morgan FILE PHOTO: U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh arrives for his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, U.S., September 27, 2018. REUTERS/Mary F. Calvert/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A deeply divided U.S. Senate on Saturday confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, as Republicans dismissed sexual assault accusations against the...
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October 1, 2018October 1, 2018News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
Why Hollywood writer Ubah Mohamed hated her name
By Naima Mohamud UBAH MOHAMED Getting a TV job in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks in the US with a name like Ubah Mohamed was not easy. “As a test, I changed my name and I immediately got offered work as a production assistant,” says Mohamed, who opted for familiar Western names....
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The Absence of Somalia-based Lecturers/Researchers in International Journals
By Hassan Mudane From 2008 to 2018, the proportion of research articles written by lecturers at Somali universities was very little compared to their counterparts at universities in Africa. What went wrong? Last month, I was invited by one of my classmates to read an article in African affairs journal written by Ryan C. Briggs...
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PUNTLAND: CANDIDATE’S POLITICAL PLATFORM FOR CHANGE
By Ismail H. Warsame Following its foundation in 1998 after disappointing failures in many attempts and trials at Somali National Reconciliation Conference to re-instate the failed State of Somalia, the people of Puntland demonstrated their full trust in the State intitutions, while keeping the peace and security in the regions. They generously supported the successive Puntland administrations with tax revenue and...
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September 27, 2018September 27, 2018Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
President of Djibouti: Saudi Arabia Helped Us Open a New Page with Eritrea
Fatah Arahman Youssef, Alsharq Al Awsat Riyadh- President of Djibouti Ismail Omar Guelleh said that Saudi Arabia has assumed a vital role to normalize the relations between his country and Eritrea and to create a serious desire to reach a final settlement of the differences between the two countries. He stressed that such an endeavor...
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Rebirth of Somali Region
By Mohamed Abdi Ever since Somali region was annexed by Ethiopia, the region has neither known justice, nor collective fruitful struggle, and the crux of the problem lies in Ethiopia’s perception and attitude towards the region and its people; but the current wind of change ushered in by the Oromo people must alter the course...
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September 21, 2018September 21, 2018Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow
Ethiopian Domestic Workers Battle for Survival in Saudi Arabia
By Rabiya Jaffery JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, (IPS) – Marjani F, 44, spent 8 years in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital working as domestic help. “My husband was killed by the military after being accused of organizing a protest. I have four children and there was no way I could pay the bills staying there,” she says. For nearly...