Lu Xinsheng says ivory smuggling and selling counterfeit goods hurts Chinese reputation in African countries By Jonathan Kalman Oil workers for the China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corp. in South Sudan. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images China‘s foreign ministry has condemned the behaviour of some Chinese citizens in Africa following its ambassador to Tanzania giving an uncommonly frank newspaper...
November 14, 2026
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PRESS STATEMENT : Allegations by The UN Monitoring Group Report
By Hon. Fawzia Y. H. Adam Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister, Somalia Regarding Allegations by The UN Monitoring Group Report Allow me at the outset to thank you all for attending this critical press Conference to respond to the UN Monitoring Report False Allegations. It has come to my attention once more that...
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Kenyan Security Forces Hunt Coast Attackers Near Somali Border
By Joseph Burite Kenyan security forces are searching a forest near the border with Somalia for attackers who killed at least 87 people near the country’s coast over the past month. Kenya’s military destroyed at least four camps being used by the assailants in Boni Forest, the Nairobi-based Daily Nation newspaper reported, citing people it didn’t identify....
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Former Front National candidate jailed for calling black minister a chimpanzee
By John Lichfield In the severest sentence of its kind ever handed down in France, a former far-right local politician has been sentenced to nine months in prison for comparing a black cabinet minister to a chimpanzee. Anne-Sophie Leclère, a senior Front National municipal candidate in northern France, posted adjacent images on Facebook of a...
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Wealthy Somalis Flout Kenyan Law to Have Daughters Circumcised
By Abjata Khalif Halima Abdi charges foreign visitors at least $1,000 for a tour of remote northeastern Kenyan villages that most people wouldn’t dream of making. Her clients are young girls sent by their parents to undergo traditional circumcision. Most of her customers are ethnic Somalis who arrive from countries such as the U.K., Sweden and the...
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Meet the First Somali Ambassador to the US in 20 Years
By Dan Hughes (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images) Somalia has appointed the country’s first ambassador to the United States in more than two decades. Omar Abdirashid Ali Shamarke had his diplomatic credentials accepted today at the White House, where he is expected to attend President Obama’s Iftar celebration this evening, a dinner marking the breaking of the...
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Villa Somalia Unsafe: Wining the “War on Shabab”
By Faisal Roble On the eve of June 27, 2014, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, seemingly jubilant, albeit unsuspecting, rhymed “nabad ku afura,” or “break your fast with peace” to impart on the residents of Mogadishu his Ramadan greetings. It was a positive but gullible message of peace to the terror-weary residents of this city of...
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Busting up Somali pirate attacks one ship at a time
Shipping security consultant says 9 times out of 10 pirates turn tail when they seem armed guards on the boats. But the war against piracy isn’t entirely over. By Mike Pflanz MOMBASA, KENYA — When they speed up to a lumbering ship, the main thing Somalian pirates do not want to see are armed guards. With...
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Djibouti Opposition Blames Politics for DP World Concession Row
By Paul Richardson Djiboutian opposition leader Abdourahman Boreh blamed his rivalry with President Ismail Omar Guelleh for the government’s decision to cancel DP World (DPW)’s concession at the country’s port. Boreh, a presidential candidate in elections in 2011, also denied any wrongdoing during his tenure as chairman of the Djibouti Ports and Free Zones Authority. Djibouti’s...
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NSA, FBI Spied On Prominent Muslim-Americans For Years, Docs Leaked By Edward Snowden Reveal
By Kukil Bora Members of the New York Police Department join in prayer at the Islamic Cultural Center of New York in the Manhattan borough of New York on Aug. 26, 2010. The Islamic Cultural Center was the first mosque built in New York City and was completed in 1991. Reuters/Lucas Jackson The National Security Agency,...