By Rick Noack Lutz Bachmann, left, and Kathrin Oertel give a news conference Jan. 19 in Dresden, Germany. (Robert Michael/AFP via Getty Images) Only few months ago, nobody would have imagined that one of the most emotional pro-tolerance speeches would one day come from one of Germany’s fiercest critics of Islam and immigrants. Yet it was...
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Kenya Airways, Djibouti plane incident blamed on controllers ‘habits’
A Kenya Airways jet nearly collided in mid-air in May 2013 with a private plane carrying Djibouti’s president, the Washington Post has reported. PHOTO | FILE NATION MEDIA GROUP By KEVIN J KELLEY A Kenya Airways jet nearly collided in mid-air two years ago with a private plane carrying Djibouti’s president, the Washington Postreported on Thursday....
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Djibouti Seeks to Tap Volcanic Energy to Reduce Power Costs
by Paul Richardson Abdourahman Omar Haga moves his hand over a fissure in a lava lake on the edge of Djibouti’s Ghoubbet el Kharab sea, trying to detect hot vapors invisible to the naked eye in the searing midday sun. “Can you feel it?” the 59-year-old geologist asks before offering a word of caution: placing one’s...
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Kenya tops list of banked population due to high mobile money uptake
Nairobi – Kenya tops the list of African countries with ease of access to financial services — thanks to its high uptake of mobile money — placing the country ahead of economic giants such as South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana, fresh data from the World Bank shows. The Global Findex Database 2014 said 75 per...
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Who is a Somali?
By Yusuf Serunkuma If one of the great lessons of Romance is that we are masters and mistresses of our destiny, that our pasts can be left behind and new futures leaped into, tragedy has a less sanguine teaching to offer. Tragedy has a more respectful attitude to that past, to the often-cruel permanence of...
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Mediterranean migrant crisis: why is no one talking about Eritrea?
By Sinéad O’Shea Migrants being rescued by the Italian navy. ‘22% of all people entering Italy by boat in 2014 were from Eritrea. After Syrians, they are the second most common nationality to undertake these journeys.’ Photograph: AP Horror has been expressed at the latest catastrophe in the Mediterranean. Little has been said, however, about Eritrea....
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Rep. Ellison to meet with Somali youth
Rep. Keith Ellison talks with volunteers at the University of Minnesota. GLEN STUBBE/Star Tribune In an effort to smooth frayed relations between the city’s Somali-American community and law enforcement, Rep. Keith Ellison traveled to south Minneapolis today to meet with friends and relatives of four Twin Cities men accused of plotting to join the Islamic...
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Fourteen migrants killed in Macedonia, hit by train in canyon
SKOPJE | By Kole Casule (Reuters) – Fourteen migrants were hit by a train and killed in central Macedonia late on Thursday as they walked through a canyon along an increasingly well-trodden Balkan route for migrants trying to reach western Europe. The accident happened at around 10.30 p.m. (4.30 p.m. EDT) near the central city...
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Somalia seeks to drive militants from southern valley bases – PM
BY EDMUND BLAIR AND DRAZEN JORGIC Somali and African forces aim to drive al Shabaab Islamist militants out of one of the last major tracts of territory in southern Somalia that the group still holds and which it uses to launch attacks, the Somali prime minister said on Thursday. Omar Sharmarke also told Reuters he...
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How Boredom Kills Marriages
By Hassan M. Abukar A friend recently told me how a group of about two dozen Somali women, recently gathered over food and drink at a funeral in southern California, began discussing marriage in their local community. The conversation started when one woman asked why so many Somali men return home to Africa and marry...