WYNNE DAVIS VON DIAZ Annie Johnson and her daughters Fatuma Abdullahi, 14, and Maryan Osman, 15. Fatuma and Maryan were refugees from Somalia’s civil war, but found a family and new life with the Johnsons. StoryCorps Fatuma Abdullahi and her sister Maryan Osman are originally from Somalia, but when they were little girls, their parents...
NAIROBI, (Xinhua) — Kenya’s Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) plans to woo Chinese investors in order to deepen the capital market, the bourse’s top official said. NSE CEO Geoffrey Odundo told Xinhua in a recent interview in Nairobi that currently there is very minimal Chinese capital at the NSE. “We are therefore planning to conduct road...
Nairobi, – Ethiopian authorities have failed to hold accountable a paramilitary force that killed at least 21 villagers in the Somali region of Ethiopia in June 2016, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should promptly grant access to independent international monitors to investigate these killings and other reported abuses by this force, known as...
By Umberto Bacchi ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The outgoing head of the United Nation’s food aid agency voiced concern on Monday that the Trump administration’s proposed cuts for U.N. aid agencies would leave children hungry in crisis-hit areas. World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Ertharin Cousin said she hoped Congress – which controls...
Modeling’s newest superstar-in-the-making is still a down-home Minnesotan. By Allie Shah Halima Aden playfully poses with a bridal hijab at Sabrina’s Bridal Shop. LEILA NAVIDI Halima Aden made her way down a dark hallway at St. Cloud Hospital on a recent afternoon, her slight...
Ethiopian Airlines is exploring plans to fly to Bulawayo, as Africa’s largest carrier expands its footprint on the local market. Ethiopian International Services managing director, Esayas Woldemariam told journalists on Sunday the carrier had set its eyes on Bulawayo. “We are planning to expand to Bulawayo. We are studying our numbers and because we have...
By Ed Cropley and MacDonald Dzirutwe | JOHANNESBURG/HARARE When President Robert Mugabe scrapped the Zimbabwe dollar in 2009, most of his people thought this meant the end of runaway money-printing and hyperinflation that had rendered the currency worthless. They may have been wrong. Adoption of the U.S. dollar and South African rand eight years ago...
Nairobi, (HRW)– Kenya should protect and assist Somali refugees and asylum seekers facing ongoing conflict and a humanitarian crisis in Somalia, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today. In line with a recent High Court decision, the authorities should abandon their decision to close the Dadaab refugee camp and publicly declare that the more than 249,000 Somali refugees living...
By Nizar Manek, Bloomberg The government of Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland may award a concession to DP World Ltd. to develop the port of Bosaso, President Abdiweli Mohamed Ali said. Ali traveled to Dubai last week to discuss the concession, he said in an interview March 21 in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, where...
By Hassan M. Abukar In 1948, the British colonial government handed over a region overwhelmingly populated by Somalis to the then emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie. When Somalia became independent in 1960, almost every successive government established its cornerstone foreign policy by uniting all Somalis, including those in Ethiopia, under one flag. Over the years,...