By Kevin Sieff MOGADISHU, Somalia — Five years after a U.N.-backed force began to push al-Qaeda-linked militants out of their strongholds, Somalia boasts clear signs of progress. Large swaths of the country have been reclaimed. Streets, beaches and markets have come back to life in once forsaken cities. The United States has promised to rebuild...
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April 9, 2016April 9, 2016Global News & Politics, News
Djibouti opposition hit out after Guelleh re-elected
Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh won 86.68 percent of ballots in the presidential election, according to the interior ministry ©Houssein I. Hersi (cds/AFP) Djibouti’s opposition lashed out at President Ismail Omar Guelleh on Saturday after he claimed a landslide victory in the strategic African nation’s election, accusing him of stealing the ballot in an “electoral...
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April 9, 2016April 9, 2016Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow
Djibouti incumbent president Guelleh wins: provisional results
Ismail Omar Guelleh arrives for a Reuters interview at his home in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, January 30, 2016. REUTERS/EDMUND BLAIR Ismail Omar Guelleh won a fourth five-year term as Djibouti’s president in an election on Friday, securing 87 percent of the votes cast, provisional results announced by Interior Minister Hassan Omar on Saturday showed. Guelleh,...
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April 5, 2016April 5, 2016Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow
Djibouti clamps down on journalists in run-up to poll
Supporters of the USN – Photo HOUSSEIN I. HERSI / AFP Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the arrest and expulsion of a BBC reporting team that went to Djibouti to cover the run-up to the 8 April presidential election, and points out that a democratic election cannot be held amid such a level of censorship....
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April 1, 2016April 1, 2016Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow
Saudi Arabia Plans $2 Trillion Megafund for Post-Oil Era: Deputy Crown Prince
By John Micklethwai Saudi Arabia is getting ready for the twilight of the oil age by creating the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund for the kingdom’s most prized assets. Over a five-hour conversation, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman laid out his vision for the Public Investment Fund, which will eventually control more than $2...
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March 30, 2016March 30, 2016News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
German minister visits Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp
Interview: Isaac Mugabi Germany’s development minister Gerd Müller has been inspecting the world’s largest refugee camp at Dadaab. It has been providing temporary shelter for the last 25 years, mostly for refugees from the war in Somalia. The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, says the Dadaab camp complex in northeastern Kenya is home to some...
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March 25, 2016March 25, 2016Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow
Kenya dissolves exam board for cheating, arrests to follow
BY TOM ODULA NAIROBI, KENYA, The Kenyan government on Thursday dissolved the national examination board and will arrest its members after they were implicated in widespread cheating on the university entrance exams, officials said. The cheating scandal comes as Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta is in the midst of a high profile campaign to combat the...
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March 25, 2016March 25, 2016News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
Barkhad Abdi: from Somali refugee to Oscar nominee
Eye in the Sky star hopes the dramatic thriller sheds light on the innocent victims of drone strikes. KEITH BERNSTEIN / ENTERTAINMENT ONE Actor Barkhad Abdi as Jama Farah in Eye in the Sky. By: Linda Barnard Oscar-nominated Somali-American actor Barkhad Abdi has first-hand knowledge of life in a war zone. And he hopes his...
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March 25, 2016March 25, 2016Global News & Politics, Market Bazaar, News, Slideshow
The Shadow Over Ethiopia’s Construction Boom
By William Davison When Ethiopian farmer Mulugeta Mezemir ceded his land three years ago to property developers on the fringes of the expanding capital, Addis Ababa, he felt he had no choice. A gated community with white picket fences and mock Roman pillars built by Country Club Developers now occupies the fields he tilled in...
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March 24, 2016March 24, 2016News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
Police ‘too slow’ to recognise exploitation of girls in Bristol
Serious case review, launched after 13 men jailed last year, finds police and other agencies missed opportunities to intervene Mustapha Farah and Omar Jumale, two of the Somali men who were convicted in Bristol of running an inner-city sex ring. Photograph: Avon and Somerset Police/PA By Steven Morris Police, health workers and a string of...