Hassan Gessey, Dalsan Radio director and chairman of Somali Independent Media Houses Association, has been arrested. (SIMHA) Nairobi, Somali journalist Hassan Gessey, a radio director at the independent Dalsan Radio, is being held without charge by the National Intelligence and Security Agency after criticizing a directive to restrict reporting on military operations, according to news reports and local...
By Faisal A. Roble ONLF as a Political Commodity In a recent interview with the Ethiopian TV, English Program, Dr. Abdiweli Ali Gaas, President of Puntland state of Somalia, uncharacteristically painted the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) with a negative broad brush and banded it with the terrorist group of Al-Shabab. However, in fairness I contacted...
Anonymous group Swazi Leaks uses social networks to show contrasting lifestyles of monarchy and impoverished citizens By David Smith Photos of King Mswati’s lavish parties have been circulating on social networking sites. Photograph: Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Image Swaziland‘s royal family have long kept their distance from the paparazzi in a way British royals can only dream...
This picture, released by Respect via Twitter, was taken before George Galloway went to hospital A man has been charged with religiously-aggravated assault after MP George Galloway was attacked in a west London street. The Respect MP for Bradford West was posing for pictures in Golborne Road, Notting Hill, when he was assaulted on Friday...
People are starving in southern Somalia while relief efforts are blocked by government and rebel fighting. By Hamza Mohamed Tens of thousands of people are facing famine in southern Somalia [Al Jazeera] Mogadishu, Somalia -President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has no doubt about who is to blame for the suffering from the latest drought to hit...
Recent executions in Somalia put the quality of justice delivered by military courts into question. By Laetitia Bader Three men found guilty by a Somali military court of killing civilians and masterminding a recent attack on the Presidential Palace were tied to poles shortly before they were executed by a firing squad in capital Mogadishu...
By KEVIN J KELLEY The reported diversion to Al Shabaab of weapons shipped to Somalia government forces is “a very serious concern” for the United Nations Security Council, its president said last week. The government’s performance in safeguarding its arsenals will factor heavily in a planned review of the current suspension of a UN embargo on...
By Belinda Goldsmith and Olivia Harris Yasmin (L), 16, pushes Hana (C), 16, on a swing after finishing a GCSE exam near their school in Hackney, east London June 6, 2013. CREDIT: REUTERS/OLIVIA HARRIS When youth worker Sumreen Farooq was abused in a London street, the 18-year-old decided it was time to take a stand –...
BY RICHARD MUNGAI BUSINESSES in Eastleigh are struggling since the start of the security operation dubbed ‘Operation Usalama Watch’, to flush out suspected Al-shabaab insurgents from Nairobi. The Eastleigh Business Community said traders who used to get about 80 per cent returns on their investment before April are now barely making 30 per cent. “We...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the severe and unwarranted action of Somali security forces who last Friday raided and closed independent radio stations in Mogadishu and arrested 19 media workers. Sixteen of the journalists were subsequently released, but three are still being held. The IFJ has demanded that the three remaining journalists...