By Suzi Ring Soma Oil & Gas Holdings Ltd. lost a court bid to force the U.K. Serious Fraud Office to end a bribery investigation into the company despite arguing that the firm may become insolvent if the probe continues. Lawyers for Soma sought a judicial review of the probe from a London court Wednesday,...
By Harald Doornbos, Jenan Moussa Since its creation, we have learned about the Islamic State from its enemies. Its story has largely been told by those fighting the group in Iraq and Syria, traumatized civilians who have escaped its brutal rule, and the occasional defector. That is about to change. This is the story of...
By Haroun Mahmud Earlier this year, the BBC reported the story of a thirteen-year-old boy with a passion for making electronic toys. The story would have been fairly unremarkable – and otherwise rather typical – were it not for the unique circumstances of the boy’s life. Guled Adan Abdi is from the northern town of...
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Mass street protests that saw dozens of people shot by Ethiopian security forces over the weekend could spill into civil war if the government fails to reform land use policies, a veteran Ethiopian opposition politician has warned. Merera Gudina, leader of the Oromo People’s Congress, said the East African country...
NAIROBI, Somalia may be eligible to tap financing from the International Monetary Fund and other multilateral lenders if it maintains a reform program intended to help rebuild the country’s war-shattered economy, the IMF country head said. Prospects for peace after more than two decades of conflict have been boosted after Somalis agreed to elect a...
The term of the current Somalia government ends in September, but will the presidential and parliamentary elections be held by August 20 as announced? The candidates are ready, the donors have conditions but the process is mired in unpreparedness. TEA GRAPHIC | NATION MEDIA GROUP By FRED OLUOCH The term of the current Somalia government ends...
Somalia presidential candidates. ILLUSTRATIONS | JOHN NYAGAH | NATION MEDIA GROUP By The EastAfrican HASSAN SHEIKH MOHAMUD Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGAH | NATION MEDIA GROUP President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud will be defending his seat, in the face of accusations of performing below par. A lot was expected of Mohamud when he...
By Selim Koru Selim Koru and Huseyin Rasit Yilmaz Like a cancer, this virus has metastasized,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech days after Turkey’s attempted coup. The virus to which he referred was the followers of the Pennsylvania-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom he blames for orchestrating the attempt to topple him from...
By Asha Abdalla Editor’s note’s : This is an excerpt from an upcoming book titled Somalia failing due to bad leadership by Asha Ahmed Abdalla, a political activist and former parliamentarian and Assistant Minister. ______ Somalia is a victim of different politically motivated foreign meddlers and interest groups whose long-term agenda is preferentially aimed at...
London (AP) – A Norwegian teenager of Somali origin is suspected of going on a knife rampage through London’s tourist hub of Russell Square, killing an American woman and injuring five other people, police said Thursday. The London force sent extra officers into the city streets and mobilized counterterror detectives, but said the investigation suggested mental...