The culture secretary said Britain can no longer be ‘held back by political correctness’ By Roisin Conner Britain’s culture secretary Sajid Javid has said a “misplaced sense of political correctness” prevented police and social workers from “properly investigating” claims of sexual abuse in Rotherham, Oxford and Rochdale. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr...
BY EDITH HONAN Kenya Administration policemen stand in front of Garissa University College in Garissa April 4, 2015. REUTERS/NOOR KHAMIS Somali militants vowed on Saturday to wage a long war against Kenya and run its cities “red with blood” after the group’s fighters killed nearly 150 people during an assault on a Kenyan university....
By Faisal A. Roble The specter of a diminishing hope for general elections in 2016 is hovering over us. Villa Somalia is slowly but methodically testing public reaction in the event that it publicly announces its newly acquired position on elections. As part of that campaign, the Minister for Interior has already indicated that no...
By Simon Clark WSJ ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—A generation ago, this African nation was a magnet for Western charity. Today, some of America’s richest deal makers are delivering something new: investment. A number of high-profile investors have recently shown up here. KKR & Co., the New York-based private-equity firm, last summer bought control of a rose...
72-year-old former military ruler defeats incumbent Goodluck Jonathan, marking only eighth time in sub-Saharan Africa a challenger has unseated incumbent at the polls By Monica Mark in Abuja andDavid Smith in Lagos Muhammadu Buhari waves to supporters after voting in his hometown of Daura in northern Nigeria. Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP Muhammadu Buhari, the opposition leader, has...
By JIM DWYER New York University’s fraught tenure as an intellectual prize of the Middle East has taken a new and mysterious turn: A private investigator has been making inquiries about an N.Y.U. professor who criticized the exploitation of migrant workers building the university’s campus in Abu Dhabi. The same investigator, working for an...
Laura Yuen , Mukhtar Ibrahim & Sasha Aslanian MPRnews On May 13, 2013, Hanad Mohallim strutted to the playground across the street from his family’s two-story suburban home. Boredom, Mohallim said, compelled him to create a walking, talking video selfie. “Just another day in the life of a gangsta in the ‘hood for me — Apple Valley,”...
(Bloomberg) — Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise, East Africa’s biggest carrier by revenue, is considering proposals to help set up national airlines in Nigeria and three other countries to expand its operations on the continent. The state-owned company, which has stakes in Malawian Airlines and ASKY Airlines of Togo, has been approached by the Nigerian government about...
By Warscapes Speaking before members of the international press gathered in Mogadishu on January 29, 2015, Philippe Lazzarini, United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, called on the international community to act in order to prevent a repeat of the famine of 2011 in Somalia. “About 731,000 Somalis face acute food insecurity, the vast majority internally displaced people, while an...
By SCOTT SHANE New York Times MINNEAPOLIS — Reading back over Abdi Nur’s Twitter feed, his chilling progression from the basketball courts of South Minneapolis to the battlefields of Syria is clear. Early last year, he began posting stern religious pronouncements and snippets of scripture. By April 2, a day after turning 20, he hailed...