Port manager Ali Omer speaks on the phone at Berbera port in the Somaliland autonomous region of Somalia. (Paul Schemm/The Washington Post) (Paul Schemm/For The Washington Post) By Paul Schemm BERBERA, Somalia — By the afternoon, more goats than cars are to be found on the unpaved, sunblasted streets of Berbera, a sleepy port town...
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UK imam’s US business visa ‘revoked without explanation’ before flight
Ajmal Masroor says US State Department is enacting policies of Donald Trump after he is barred from travelling to New York Ajmal Masroor says he was prevented from boarding a Virgin flight to New York after being stopped by US embassy staff at Heathrow airport. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images By Aisha Gani, Amanda Holpuch and Andrew...
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Is Somalia’s flight to 2016 on the same flight path as Germanwings Airbus A329′ Flight 9525
By Cabdulle Muse In his January 29, 2014 National Intelligence Report to the Senate Select Committee, the Director of the United States national Intelligence Mr. James R. Clapper had the following to say about Somalia: “In Somalia, Al Shabab is conducting asymmetric attacks against government facilities and western targets in and around Mogadishu. The credibility...
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The Islamic State creates a new type of jihadist: Part terrorist, part gangster
By Anthony Faiola and Souad Mekhennet BRUSSELS — The recent terrorist attacks in Paris have brought into sharper focus the rise of a new breed of jihadists, one that blurs the line between organized crime and Islamist extremism, using skills honed in lawbreaking in the service of violent radicalism. The Islamic State is constructing an...
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How to End the Eritrean Refugee Crisis
By Mya Guarnieri Tesfu Atsbha, 35, stands in the alley behind an unmarked Eritrean community center in south Tel Aviv, just blocks away from the park where a memorial service was held for Habtom Zerhum a few days before. Zerhum, an Eritrean asylum seeker, was killed when he was mistaken for a Palestinian terrorist during...
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Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini banned from football for eight years by Fifa
Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter at the Women’s Champions League final in 2013, two years before the storm broke over the Uefa and Fifa presidents. Photograph: Ian Kington/AFP/Getty Images By Owen Gibson Sepp Blatter and the longtime Fifa president’s one-time heir apparent, Michel Platini, have been banned from football for eight years, ending the career...
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Qatari sheikh accused of running hotel while claiming diplomatic immunity
Former prime minister of Qatar at centre of court case brought by UK-born ex-colleague who alleges he was falsely imprisoned for 15 months Qatar’s Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani. Photograph: Joseph Barrak/AFP/Getty Images A former prime minister of Qatar has been accused of running a landmark London hotel and doing business deals...
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Ethiopian voted as Best Airline to Africa and Best Airline in Africa By Premier Traveler Magazine Customer Survey
By Mamo Gebrehiwot Ethiopian Airlines, the largest, fastest growing and most profitable airline in Africa, is pleased to announce that it has been recognized as “Best Airline to Africa“, for a second year in a row, and “Best Airline in Africa” by one of the most prominent travel magazines in the United States, Premier Traveler,...
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Muslim student upset after Gwinnett teacher asks if she has a bomb
By Shelia Poole The parent of an eighth-grade Muslim student at Shiloh Middle School in Gwinnett County is angry after an incident in which a teacher asked his daughter if she was carrying a bomb in her backpack. Abdirizak Aden, who was born in Somalia, said that on Monday, his 13-year-old daughter, who wears the hijab,...
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Assertions of Hate Crime in Seattle After a Somali-American Teenager Falls to His Death
BY KIRK JOHNSON Ikram Warsame, center, on Wednesday in Seattle. Her brother, Hamza, 16, died on Saturday near Seattle Central College. CreditRuth Fremson/The New York Times SEATTLE — The Seattle Police Department said Wednesday it was investigating the death of a 16-year-old Somali-American boy who died Saturday after a fall from a balcony near Seattle...