by Alastair G.M Five men share this tiny studio apartment and immigration officials regularly raid their building [Alastair G.M/Al Jazeera] Bangkok, Thailand – “I’ve never experienced cold like this,” says RK, a 19-year-old Somali refugee, as he sits in a downtown Bangkok alley one December morning. It is 20 degrees, and opposite is the Suan Phlu...
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Trump denies U.S. embassy to be moved to Jerusalem within a year
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump denied on Wednesday that the planned relocation of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would take place within a year, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected the controversial move to happen by then. Reversing decades of U.S. policy, Trump in early December recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s...
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A Minnesota health advocate’s crusade brings harmful skin lightening out of the dark
By SHEILA MULROONEY ELDRED Amira Adawe inside Karmal Square Somali Mall in Minneapolis, Minn. MINNEAPOLIS — Karmel Square is a hub of the Somali community here, a colorful, cheerfully noisy hodgepodge of vendors and restaurants unofficially known as the Somali Mall. Amira Adawe stops by often to buy tea and chat in Somali with friends and...
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Somalia: Al-Shabab Demanding Children
Residents Threatened to Hand Over Boys, Girls Children learning to read the Quran at the Gaabow Islamic school in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, August 2013. Parents and teachers told Human Rights Watch that Al-Shabab militants threatened and on occasion abducted teachers and children from schools in rural areas of Bay region in September 2017. Nairobi, The...
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Abdoul Abdi’s supporters protest his possible deportation at Trudeau town hall
23-year-old who came to N.S. as a refugee is being detained in New Brunswick Emma Smith About a dozen protesters showed up to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s town hall on Tuesday evening. (Marine von Stackelberg/CBC) A 23-year-old former refugee from Somalia is waiting in a segregated cell in New Brunswick tonight as his supporters call attention to his...
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Ethiopian Airlines Seeks to Ease Inter-Africa Travel
MONICA POLING PHOTO: Ethiopian Airlines. (photo via Flickr/byeangel) As international travel to the African continent blossoms—visitation was up 6.5 percent in 2017—getting to Africa is becoming easier than ever. A number of carriers are increasing or expanding international service to their African hubs. While getting to the continent may be easier than ever, moving around Africa often times...
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Ethiopia, Tanzania electric trains to speed up cargo movement
An Ethiopian Railways electric train. The Ethio-Djibouti standard gauge railway project boasts of more than 30 electrical locomotives. PHOTO | AFP By ALLAN OLINGO Ethiopia and Tanzania have raised the stakes in the competition for cargo business in the region by introducing electric trains. While Kenya’s diesel-powered cargo train took its maiden trip on the...
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Trump book author says his revelations will bring down U.S. president
William Schomberg Copies of the book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” by author Michael Wolff are seen at a local book store in Washington, DC, U.S. January 5, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria LONDON (Reuters) – The author of a book that is highly critical of Donald Trump’s first year as U.S. president said...
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Special Report: Meet the force behind Zimbabwe’s ‘Crocodile’ president
By Ed Cropley HARARE (Reuters) – His wife is a beauty queen, his troops unseated Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, and his motorcade is fit for a president. General Constantino Chiwenga, head of the armed forces until earlier this month, is on a roll. On Dec. 15 his 10-vehicle convoy, complete with soldiers toting AK-47 assault rifles,...
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Ethiopian workers ‘beaten and robbed’ by Saudi police
More than 96,000 Ethiopians have been deported by Saudi Arabia since June, many of them forcibly [Mulugeta Ayene/AP] Undocumented Ethiopian migrants who are being forcibly deported from Saudi Arabia by the thousands in a new crackdown say they were mistreated by authorities while detained. In interviews with The Associated Press upon their arrival home, the returnees described...