By Abdourahim Arteh Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh. REUTERS/Edmund Blair DJIBOUTI, Djibouti’s economy is expected to grow 7 percent in 2017 from a projected 6.5 percent this year, helped by investment in ports, telecommunications and airports, its budget minister said. Strategically located at the southern entrance to the Red Sea on the route to the...
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December 8, 2016December 8, 2016News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
Amisom withdrawal from Somalia delayed
Amisom troops in Somalia. PHOTO | FILE By FRED OLUOCH African leaders are facing a dilemma over plans to start withdrawing peacekeepers from Somalia by October 2018, because there is no guarantee that the country will have been pacified by then. The drawdown, to be completed in 2020, is high on the agenda, as the African...
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I lie to my kids on whereabouts of their father who disappeared while in police custody
A victim of enforced disappearances captured on February 2, 2014 during the Masjid Musa mosque raid/FILE By JOSEPH MURAYA NAIROBI, Kenya, Saada Juma Seleman is torn between convincing her three children that their father is either dead and may not come back, or continues to give them hope, that they may soon re-unite as one...
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December 6, 2016December 6, 2016Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow
Special Report: 500 migrants drowned at sea. No one investigated
Meseda Abdel-Wahab (R), mother of teenager Fares Ezzat, and his aunt Halawethorn Abdel-Wahad pose holding a photograph of him at the family home in the village of Meit Massoud in Aga, Egypt, November 16, 2016. REUTERS By Stephen Grey and Amina Ismail | ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT on Saturday, April 9, a large blue fishing boat carrying...
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December 5, 2016December 5, 2016Featured, Global News & Politics, News
Djibouti: what lies behind the ambitious investment program of the “New Dubai”?
By Constance Hubert Djibouti is today striving to become the “new Dubai,” a commercial hub for Eastern Africa and an outpost for its powerful Ethiopian neighbor. On June 27, 1977, The New York Times reported the proclamation of independence of the “troubled” Republic of Djibouti, a tiny state with “no resources except sand, salt, and...
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December 4, 2016December 4, 2016Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow
Saudi Arabia mulls military base in Djibouti amid Yemen crisis
Djibouti’s Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf (Photo by AP) Djibouti says Saudi Arabia is planning to set up a military base in the African country amid the Riyadh regime’s deadly military campaign against neighboring Yemen. In an interview with the Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq al-Awsatreleased on Sunday, Djibouti’s Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf welcomed the initiative, saying...
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December 2, 2016December 2, 2016Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
Aid agencies say 5 mln Somalis face acute food shortages
MOGADISHU, (Xinhua) — Some 38 aid agencies said on Monday that at least five million Somalis are facing acute food security crisis due to poor rains in the Horn of Africa nation. In a joint statement, the agencies include Oxfam, Relief International and World Vision said vegetation conditions have worsened and drought conditions intensified and...
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December 1, 2016December 1, 2016Featured, News, Somali News & Politics
After election delay, Somalia’s first female presidential candidate says she may not run again
By Karen Attiah Somali Fadumo Dayib, pictured during an interview in Helsinki on Sept. 22. (Jussi Nukari, Lehtikuva, via Associated Press) HELSINKI — Fadumo Dayib, Somalia’s first female presidential candidate, is so dismayed by the decision this week by Somali’s electoral body to postpone the country’s presidential elections for the third time that she thinks she will...
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November 29, 2016November 29, 2016News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
OHIO STATE ATTACK: TERRORISM EYED AS POLICE SEEK MORE INFO
Knifeman: Abdul Razak Ali Artan Kevin Stankiewicz/TheLantern.com via AP COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Investigators are looking into whether a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University that injured 11 people was an act of terror by a Somali-born student who had once criticized the media for its portrayal of Muslims. The attacker, identified as Abdul Razak...
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Islamophobia In US: California Mosques Receive Letters Threatening Muslim Genocide
BY VISHAKHA SONAWANE Several mosques in California received letters that threatened violence against Muslims and praised President-elect Donald Trump, prompting the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to call for added protection at Islamic worship places in the state. The handwritten and photocopied letters were sent last week to the Islamic Center of Long Beach, the Islamic Center...