By Christopher Wallace It all started at Baledogle, the old Soviet airport 70 miles northwest of Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, where the U.S. runs a deeply clandestine drone operation with around 30 to 40 American personnel. While shrouded in secrecy, Baledogle has reportedly grown over the years into a key point for training Somali commandos and, early...
November 14, 2026
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Zimbabwe’s Mugabe, 93, starts nationwide speaking tour
© AFP/File | Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is embarking on a 10-date speaking tour ahead of elections next year MARONDERA (ZIMBABWE) (AFP) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Friday launched a nationwide 10-venue speaking tour aimed at drumming up support ahead of elections next year when he plans to seek office again. The 93-year-old leader, who...
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“They Say They’re Not Here to Protect Us”: New IRRI Report on AMISOM
Kampala, International Refugees Rights Initiative (IRRI) today launched a report about civilian perspectives on the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), whose mandate has been recently renewed. This report is based on interviews with 62 Somalis and is the third in a series on civilian perspectives of peacekeeping forces in Africa. The report highlights that...
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Small plane crashes in Somalia’s Mogadishu
Mogadishu, Somalia – A small plane chartered by U.S. contracting firm Bancroft crashed at a Mogadishu airport on Tuesday morning, witnesses said. A source at the Aden Adde International Airport said passengers who were aboard the plane survived but the incident caused flight disruptions at the airport. “Reports point to a failed landing gear,” said...
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Two men killed in Portland after trying to stop anti-Muslim rant: police
Two men were stabbed to death in the U.S. city of Portland on Friday when they tried to stop their attacker from harassing two women because they appeared to be Muslim, police said. The incident unfolded on a commuter train hours before the start of Ramadan, Islam’s holy month, when most of the world’s 1.6...
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U.A.E. May Fly Warplanes From Somalia as Africa Reach Grows
By Nizar Manek,Bloomberg A proposed United Arab Emirates base in semi-autonomous northern Somalia may add a naval facility to a military airport, extending the Arab nation’s reach on the Horn of Africa coastline, a Somali official said. The U.A.E. has leased the airport in the Somaliland port town of Berbera for 25 years and is...
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Manchester Massacre. I hope humans can regain its humanity
By Abubakar N. Kasim Words can’t describe the magnitude of the horrific tragedy unfolding in Manchester, UK where at least 22 people have lost their lives including innocent children. It shows the barbaric nature of this evil act where even children are not excluded. Don’t the evil perpetrators also have kids of their own, I wonder....
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Zakir Naik: Why India wants to arrest the preacher?
Indian authorities have accused the popular Mumbai-based preacher Zakir Naik of supporting terrorism, which he denies. His supporters say Naik has been targeted because he is a Muslim [Shailesh Andrade/Reuters] By Saif Khalid He has 16 million followers on Facebook, 150,000 on Twitter and has given more than 4,000 lectures on Islam across the world....
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‘I think Islam hates us’: A timeline of Trump’s comments about Islam and Muslims
By Jenna Johnson and Abigail Hauslohner Donald Trump speaks during a Nov. 21, 2015, campaign stop in Birmingham, Ala. (Eric Schultz/AP) President Trump is in Saudi Arabia this weekend to meet with Arab leaders, visit the birthplace of Islam and give a speech about religious tolerance with the hope of resetting his reputation with the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims....
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Volvo trucks on big expansion in East Africa
Nairobi — Volvo AB’s trucks division is seeking to boost market share in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to as much as 18% from about 2%, as the East African region’s economic growth outpaces the sub-Saharan Africa average. The Swedish maker of vehicles and construction equipment agreed to partner with Kenyan car dealer NECST Motors to...