Josh Wood Foreign Correspondent OBOCK, Djibouti // Every day refugees fleeing the war in Yemen arrive in Djibouti, pulling into ports aboard putrid livestock boats, repurposed cargo ships and any other vessel that will carry them. But as thousands cross the Gulf of Aden to this tiny nation on the Horn of Africa, a steady...
November 14, 2026
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Somalia May Pay 90% Oil Revenue to Explorer Under Draft Deal
By Ilya Gridneff Soma Oil & Gas Holdings Ltd., chaired by former U.K. Conservative Party leader Michael Howard, has proposed a deal with the Somali government that may grant it as much as 90 percent of the country’s prospective oil revenue. A draft production-sharing agreement, obtained by Bloomberg from an official close to the negotiations,...
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Fake Diplomas, Real Cash: Pakistani Company Axact Reaps Millions
By DECLAN WALSH Seen from the Internet, it is a vast education empire: hundreds of universities and high schools, with elegant names and smiling professors at sun-dappled American campuses. Their websites, glossy and assured, offer online degrees in dozens of disciplines, like nursing and civil engineering. There are glowing endorsements on the CNN iReport website,...
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One Man’s Millions Turn a Community in Florida Around
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ ORLANDO, Fla. — Two decades ago, Harris Rosen, who grew up poor on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and became wealthy in the Florida hotel business, decided to shepherd part of his fortune into a troubled community with the melodious sounding name of Tangelo Park. A quick snap from the city’s...
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On The Scene: In Ethiopia, ‘Are You a Journalist?’ Is a Loaded Question
By Anita Powell ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — Are you a journalist?” the young man asks me as we board the elevator. In Ethiopia, this is a loaded question. It earned me an extra 45-minute wait at airport immigration as officials thumbed through my passport, pawed through my luggage and asked me what my intentions were....
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Axact Chief Executive Arrested in Pakistan Over Fake Diplomas Scandal
By SABA IMTIAZ and DECLAN WALSH KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistani investigators arrested the chief executive of Axact, a software company accused of running a global diploma mill, early Wednesday after discovering a storage room filled with blank fake degrees. The chief executive, Shoaib Ahmed Shaikh, and four other Axact executives were initially charged with fraud,...
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Somali defector: Why I left al-Shabab
By Andrew Harding BBC News One of the most senior figures to defect from Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked militant group al-Shabab has urged his former colleagues to stop targeting civilians and to begin negotiations with the Somali government. In his first interview with a foreign journalist, Zakariya Ahmed Ismail Hersi – who once had a $3m (£1.9m;...
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Kenya: Taxi War Looms in Nairobi As Startups Take On Uber
By Michel Arseneault A taxi war is looming in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, where startups are hoping to outdo Uber, the global transportation network. They believe their smartphone apps are more in line with the taxi culture of Nairobi, a high-crime city where cabs are not typically hailed off the street. In Europe, San Francisco-based Uber...
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Ethiopian Wins ‘Airline Of The Year – Africa’ Award For 3 Consecutive Years
The Ethiopian Airlines have won “GMR-IGI Airport Business Partner Awards” as ‘Airline of the year – Africa’, for 3 consecutive years, on Friday 08 May 2015. The fourth edition of this prestigious GMR-IGI Airport Business Partner Awards 2015 took place at Kingdom of Dreams, New Delhi on 08th May 2015. The GMR IGI Awards have...
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It’s hot, dusty, and tiny, but this city-state is on the way to be one of Africa’s few real ‘superpowers’
By Lee Mwiti A TINY land of 850,000, nearly all who live in the capital city, and whose economy survives on rent, could become home to both American and Chinese military bases, feeding off the two powers’ geopolitical ambitions to reap lucrative rewards. The Horn of Africa country Djibouti has until now been best known for hosting...