By Paul Richardson and David Malingha Doya Kenya is determined to do whatever it takes to eradicate al-Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia to prevent EastAfrica’s biggest economy from becoming enmeshed in fighting a Nigeria-type insurgency, President Uhuru Kenyatta said. The government is boosting spending on security after decades of “severe underinvestment” and wants to work more...
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Somalia’s police boss called ‘war criminal’ in Canada
Mogadishu’s new police commissioner was once wanted in Canada as a “war criminal” after a refugee and immigration board concluded he was “responsible for the ruthless torture of prisoners” while with Somalia’s police force in the 1980s. DAVID MUTUA / AMISOM PHOTO Somalia’s deputy minister of National Security Ibraahim Yarow Isaaq, centre, is flanked by...
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CONFESSIONS OF A NEW COVERT TO THE GERI-KOOMBO CLAN-FAMILY
By Prof Said S. Samatar This is the story of my recent dramatic, almost mystical conversion to the noble Geri-Koombo clan-family. What bizarre private agencies of enlightenment and pleasant beneficence that drove me into abandoning my Leelkase kin and embracing the Geri will take a psychiatrist to divine. But before dwelling on my impulsive, inexplicable...
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Somali Refugees Find an Unlikely Home in Istanbul
By Hannah Tayson ISTANBUL, Jul 29 2014 (IPS) – Among the labyrinth of winding narrow streets just outside a major shopping centre in the Kumkapi neighbourhood of Istanbul is a rundown road, congested with shops and apartments stacked atop one another. Cars somehow manage to come barrelling down the street as people slowly move to...
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Four Ethiopian athletes missing from World Junior track and field championships
Four members of the Ethiopian track and field team have gone missing from the IAAF World Track and Field Championships over the weekend, according to the University of Oregon. University spokeswoman Julie Brown said four members of Ethiopia’s junior track and field team were not in their assigned rooms at the residence halls Saturday morning and...
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KDF funds Al-Shabaab through illegal charcoal trade, says new probe report
Traders sell charcoal in Kismayu in May 2013. The Kenya Defence Forces has been accused of colluding with Al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia’s illegal multi-billion-shilling charcoal trade. FILE NATION MEDIA GROUP By MUGUMO MUNENE The Kenya Defence Forces has been accused of colluding with Al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia’s illegal multi-billion-shilling charcoal trade. A damning new report...
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Canadian ‘terror tourist’ Mohamed Hersi gets 10 years in jail for planning to join Islamic jihadist group in Somalia
By Colin Berkel Tyler Anderson/National PostAn Ontario Superior Court jury had convicted Mohamed Hassan Hersi in May on charges of attempting to participate in the activities of a terrorist group and providing counsel to a person to participate in terrorist activity. (Tyler Anderson/National Post) (For National story by Stewart Bell) //NATIONAL POST STAFF PHOTO The...
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Contemporary mixed migration trends report launched in Malta Worrying trend of pregnant women crossing the seas
Malta – The Danish Refugee Council and the Regional Mixed Migration Secretariat today launched its report on migration trends at The Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta called ‘Going West: contemporary mixed migration trends from the Horn of Africa to Libya & Europe’, in the presence of Somalis who sought refuge in Malta. Melissa Phillips, Regional...
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Ethiopia Becomes China’s China in Search for Cheap Labor
By Kevin Hamlin, Ilya Gridneff and William Davison Photographer: Ilya Gridneff/Bloomberg Ethiopian employees work inside the Huajian Shoes’ factory outside Addis Ababa. Ethiopian workers strolling through the parking lot of Huajian Shoes’ factory outside Addis Ababa last month chose the wrong day to leave their shirts untucked. Company President Zhang Huarong, just arrived on a visit...
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Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent: Inside British Islam – review
Innes Bowen’s study reveals how the government’s attitude towards British Muslims has been defined in part by ignorance Christopher Bellalgue i The minaret of Birmingham Central Mosque. Photograph: Martin Godwin Along with the “Trojan Horse” controversy about the imposition of a strict Islamic ethos on a number of Birmingham schools, the disclosure that several hundred...