Addis Ababa, The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU),Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, today, formally released the key findings and recommendations (attached) contained in the report of an Independent Investigation Team established to investigate allegations of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) by personnel of the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). The allegations were...
Nairobi, – Somaliland authorities on April 18, 2015, detained a prominent human rights activist, apparently for criticizing the government’s execution of six prisoners, Human Rights Watch said today. Police arrested Guleid Ahmed Jama after he made statements on the radio denouncing the executions, the first in Somaliland in nearly a decade. The authorities should immediately...
By Biénne Huisman Abdikader Shukri was left paralysed after two men shot him outside his grocery shop in Gugulethu during a spate of xenophobia attacks three years ago. But Shukri considers himself lucky. The 32-year-old Somalian has cousins and friends who supported him throughout the ordeal that saw him hospitalised for two months – and now...
BY NOSIPHO SHONGWE MANZINI – The country is concerned by the high number of Somali asylum seekers who have been flocking into Swaziland in the past month. However, nothing can be done to prevent or stop asylum seekers from seeking refuge in Swaziland as the country is duty-bound to provide assistance through the signed UN...
Addis Ababa- Kenya’s Ambassador to Ethiopia says that Ethiopia and Kenya need to implement the economic integration agreements they have signed at various times as soon as possible. In an interview with the Ethiopian News Agency, Ambassador Catherine Mwangi said the two nations should realize the Special Status Agreement signed in 2012 as well as...
Somali refugees sit in a queue outside a food distribution centre at the Ifo refugee camp in Dadaab in August 2011.Photo/file BY JAMES MBAKA THE push by Kenya to expel 500,000 Somali refugees from the Dadaab camp has met resistance, with the UNHCR maintaining that the exercise must be voluntary. The UN refugee agency said...
Evgeny Freidman, known as Gene, said in an interview Thursday that the taxi industry, like the financial industry, was too big to fail. He would like the city to guarantee taxi medallion loans, which would induce banks to extend more credit to fleet owners like him, and he compares this approach to the federal government’s...
Annegret Raunigk, 65, who already has 13 children and seven grandchildren, became pregnant after several attempts at fertility treatment Annegret Raunigk pictured when she was 55, with her daughter Leila in Berlin. Photograph: Patrick Lux/EPA A 65-year-old Berlin woman who has 13 children is pregnant with quadruplets, German media have reported. Annegret Raunigk’s pregnancy follows...
6. Ethiopian Airlines Fleet size: 76 Number of destinations: 101+ On-time percentage: 71% Average age of fleet: 7 years Africa’s largest and most profitable airline has been in rapid expansion mode to capture the hot Africa-Asia market. Ethiopia is building a massive airport to house the airline’s home base. The country is looking to shed...
By Liban Ahmad Muuse Biihi, the chairman of Somaliland ruling party, Kulmiye, felt unwelcome while on visit in Las Anod last week. He said he had seen flags of the party “only in the front-line at Gambadhe”, where Somaliland forces are based and where he felt at home because “ I am happy where people...