Thousands of people from the Oromo ethnic group have been “regularly subjected to arbitrary arrest, prolonged detention without charge, enforced disappearance, repeated torture and unlawful state killings,” read the report based on over 200 testimonies. “Dozens of actual or suspected dissenters have been killed.” At least 5,000 Oromos have been arrested since 2011 often for...
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Details emerge of Colorado girls’ possible bid to aid Islamic radicals
By Michael Muskal On Friday, two Somali sisters in suburban Denver told their father that they were too ill to go to school so they were going to stay home. By mid-morning, they called their father at work and said that they wanted to go to the library. The father told authorities he didn’t see...
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Somalia Plans to Start Producing Oil Offshore in Six Years
By Jillian Ward Somalia plans to begin producing oil and gas offshore for the first time within six years and is in talks with state governments about how revenue will be shared, Petroleum Minister Daud Mohamed Omar said. The Horn of Africa country, which has been immersed in conflict for more than two decades, is...
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Kenya Police Said to Use Shoot-to-Kill Policy to Fight Islamists
By Sarah McGregor Photographer: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images An armed policeman stands outside the Westgate mall in Nairobi during a memorial ceremony to mark one year since the Westgate terrorist attack on Sept. 21, 2014. As Kenyan police seek to counter attacks by Islamist militants from neighboring Somalia and crack down on spiraling crime, they’re...
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Somalia wants its pirates in Kenya jails sent home
By Philip Mwakio MOMBASA COUNTY: The Somalia government now says it hopes Kenya will allow the transfer 122 convicted Somali pirates from Kenyan jails back to Somalia suggesting there are negotiations to this effect between the two states. Most of the pirates are held at Mombasa’s Shimo la Tewa prison and are deemed dangerous. Somalia’s...
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Hijacking the News
In ‘Default,’ Somali Pirates’ Demand Is for Coverage By BEN KENIGSBERG David Oyelowo plays a Somali pirate who wants his voice to be heard by the world. CreditGuillermo/Amplify Releasing In a morbid synthesis of two Paul Greengrass movies, “United 93” and“Captain Phillips,” the found-footage film “Default” imagines the hijacking of a United States news crew...
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UN Report Finds Gulf Financiers Aid Somalia Islamist Insurgency
By Ilya Gridneff Key financiers of Islamist militants in Somalia are operating with impunity in Gulf states, undermining efforts to end an insurgency in the Horn of Africa country, a United Nations monitoring group said. Traders in the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are fueling the illegal trade in charcoal from Somalia...
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Somali Bank Becomes First Lender to Handle Foreign Transactions
By Mohamed Sheikh Nor International Bank of Somalia became the first lender in the Horn of Africa nation to handle foreign transactions, the latest sign that the country is stabilizing after decades of conflict, Chairman Hassan Ahmed Yusuf said. The bank, run from a two-story building in the capital, Mogadishu, obtained a so-called Swift code...
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Somalia Expects Liberation of al-Shabaab-Controlled Areas by May
By Amogelang Mbatha Somalia’s government expects to liberate areas still controlled by al-Qaeda-linked militants within the next six months after capturing the insurgents’ coastal stronghold last week, a Defence Ministry official said. The Somalia National Army, backed by African Union forces, seized the port town of Barawe, 220 kilometers (137 miles) south of the capital,...
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Somali diplomat who forgave his daughter’s killer 22 years later
Ambassador Mohammed Ali Nur. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP By RASHID ABDI In Somalia, the stories that matter are those about normalisation. For a conflict-weary nation, it is the simple human stories about the tiny tentative steps, promising a return to normalcy, that inspire people and generate mass interest. And guess the two most...