By Michele Kelemen Just a few months ago, Bekele Gerba was languishing in a high security Ethiopian jail, hearing the cries of fellow prisoners being beaten and tortured. Now, the 54-year-old foreign language professor is in Washington, D.C., for meetings at the State Department. His message: The Obama administration should pay more attention to the...
By Osman Hassan I recently watched Professor Ahmed I. Samatar’s appearances on Somali satellite TVs posted on WardheerNews. This time, he was interviewed on 29 July by Abdiwahid Mohamoud Jama, one of the most gifted and competent Somali interviewers I have come across. With professional savvy, he pulled no punches to grill the Professor and...
FILE – Somalia lawmakers raise their hands during a confidence vote on Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, at the Parliament Building in Mogadishu, Somalia. By Mohammed Yusuf NAIROBI, The United Nations envoy to Somalia, Nicholas Kay, is criticizing an effort by some Somali lawmakers to impeach the president. He said with an election coming up and...
MOGADISHU, A severe famine ravaged Somalia in 2011, wiping out the remaining hope after a decade of conflict that drove families into desperation and consequently death. Thousands held on to hope on their way to Mogadishu where they were settled in internally displaced people (IDP) camps and provided with humanitarian aid. However, many of those...
BY HANNAH BORENSTEIN Tucked in a lush valley surrounded by mountains, Yaya Village is nothing short of a runner’s mecca. There’s a four-star resort complete with a 3,500-square-foot gym and access to physiotherapists, not to mention meals “optimized for athletes” and a nearby forest with miles of jogging trails. And why shouldn’t there be? After...
By Nita Bhalla Muslim brides wait for the start of their mass marriage ceremony in Mumbai May 11, 2014. A total of 35 Muslim couples took wedding vows during the mass marriage ceremony organised by a Muslim voluntary organisation, organisers said. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui NEW DELHI, Aug 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than 90 percent...
By Abdiqani Hassan KISMAYU, Somalia, (Reuters) – The next Somali parliament should be chosen by regional leaders rather than by elders favoured by the president, the governor of the strategically important Jubbaland province said in an interview. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has vowed to hold elections before his current term ends in August 2016, but...
By JODI KANTOR and DAVID STREITFELD SEATTLE — On Monday mornings, fresh recruits line up for an orientation intended to catapult them into Amazon’s singular way of working. They are told to forget the “poor habits” they learned at previous jobs, one employee recalled. When they “hit the wall” from the unrelenting pace, there is...
CRAIG F. WALKER/GLOBE STAFF “This is what I love,” said Gamana Yarow, a 27-year-old mother of four, of working on Intervale Farm in Maine. By Brian MacQuarrie NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine — Six-foot stalks of corn crowd a small rise at Intervale Farm, a 19th-century spread of rolling fields that lead to the Royal River. It’s...
East Africans are now using mobile money platforms to move cash equivalent to a third of the value of goods and services produced in the region, the latest industry statistics show. TEA GRAPHIC | NATION MEDIA GROUP East Africans are now using mobile money platforms to move cash equivalent to a third of the value...