By Safy Halan Farah On a sunny day in 1991, Maryan, my dad’s first cousin, was hiding from rifle-carrying soldiers in a house in Mogadishu, Somalia, while the melodic voice of the singer Magool blared from a megaphone outside. Magool repeated an ugly slur for the Darod, our family’s clan, while a sweaty Maryan crouched...
November 14, 2026
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17,000 refugees in Dadaab willing to go back to Somalia – UNHCR
A Somali refugee on December 19, 2017 sits with his family among others who have volunteered to be repatriated back to Somalia from the Dadaab refugee camp. PHOTO | TONY KARUMBA | AFP By ABDIMALIK HAJIR About 17,000 more refugees have said they are willing to voluntarily go back to Somalia. Kenya, Somalia and the...
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SOMALIA: REFUGEES PRESSURED TO LEAVE DADAAB RETURN TO INSECURITY, DROUGHT AND HUNGER
Thousands of Somali refugees who were pressured into leaving the Dadaab camp in Kenya are now facing drought, starvation and renewed displacement in Somalia, Amnesty International said today. Returns to Somalia from Dadaab have massively accelerated since the Kenyan government announced plans to close the camp in May 2016. In a new briefing, Not Time to...
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Somali refugees in Kenya caught between ration cuts and war at home
DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP, Kenya (Reuters) – Somali refugees in Kenya are free to choose whether to go home, a top U.N. official said on Tuesday, despite many families saying debts accumulated to feed their children after cuts in rations are forcing them to return to a war zone. In October, a funding crisis forced the...
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Ethiopian launches new mobile application for passengers
The leading aviation group and the fastest growing airline in Africa, Ethiopian Airlines has launched an Android-based mobile application. The new mobile app encompasses an array of features that enhance customers’ travel experience with simplified and end-to-end options for flight booking and management. Tewolde GebreMariam, Group CEO, Ethiopian Airlines remarked, “In the age of ‘the internet of...
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‘Dabka’ Film Review: A Scraggly Evan Peters Teams Up With Barkhad Abdi in Somalia
“American Horror Story” star delivers a high-energy and appealing performance as an inexperienced American journalist in a perilous overseas locale Dan Callahan The pleasingly self-aware and fast-paced “Dabka” begins with narration by journalist Jay Bahadur (Evan Peters) telling us that he hates movies where the main character narrates because that means that the screenwriters haven’t...
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On the Eve of Congressional Hearings, New Evidence About Alleged U.S. Massacre in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia—New evidence in the Daily Beast investigation of a U.S.-led ground operation in Somalia last August further implicates U.S. Special Operations Forces directly in the death of 10 civilians. Among the new elements is an interview with a Somali National Army soldier who says he saw the Americans firing on unarmed victims. The Pentagon has said...
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Former president Saleh dead after switching sides in Yemen’s civil war
A Houthi militant reacts as he sits on a tank after the death of Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen December 4, 2017. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah By Noah Browning, Sami Aboudi SANAA/DUBAI (Reuters) – Veteran former president Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed in a roadside attack on Monday after switching sides in Yemen’s...
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Saleh party sources say Yemeni ex-president killed in Sanaa fighting -al-Arabiya TV
FILE PHOTO: Yemen’s then President Ali Abdullah Saleh points during an interview with selected media in Sanaa, May 25, 2011. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah/File Photo SANAA (Reuters) – Former President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed in fighting with the Iran-aligned Houthi militia raging in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television said on Monday, quoting sources...
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These lost and found Somali tapes are now nominated for a Grammy award
Sing your hearts out. (Reuters/Omar Faruk) By Abdi Latif Dahir It is an album that captures the melodious voices of prominent Somali singers like Hibo Nura, Nimo Jama, the Waberi troupe, and the Iftin Band, among others. In it, they meditate on love, life, and a Somalia rising from the ashes of colonialism. The music,...