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Turkish and Somali officials attend a groundbreaking ceremony in Mogadishu. (Photo: Cihan) NATE BARTON / ISTANBUL A hospital in Uganda. A road in Somalia. Justice and Development Party (AK Party) voices tout huge increases in foreign aid as proof of political benevolence and economic prosperity. “Turkey is no longer the hand that receives but the...

By  DANIEL K. KALINAKI The EastAfrican A week ago, Mpeketoni was a small, sleepy town near Lamu Island on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coastline. Today it is at the heart of a loud argument about the changing face of terrorism and extremist violence in Kenya and the wider East African region. Gunmen swept through Mpeketoni on...

UPDF soldiers man Juba International Airport. The Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Mr Wafula Oguttu, told the Ugandan government to withdraw the country’s army from Somalia and South Sudan. Photo/FILE  By Solomon Arinaitwe and Nelson Wesonga The Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Mr Wafula Oguttu, told the government to withdraw the country’s army from Somalia and...

Abdirahmaan Muhumed is one of as many as 15 Minnesota Somali-Americans who left their homes to join ISIS, according to Minnesota Public Radio. (Screengrab from public Facebook page). As many as 15 Somali-American men have left their homes in Minnesota in recent months to travel to the Middle East and join up with ISIS, the...

Agents from the FBI are meeting with Somali community members in Cedar-Riverside as part of an ongoing investigation. By Ethan Nelson Agents from the Minneapolis office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation are collecting information from Cedar-Riverside residents as part of an ongoing investigation spurred by recent allegations of American citizens joining Syrian rebels overseas....

iUBIQUITOUS: A common sight of African women carrying salvaged “valuables” from dumpsters on discarded prams. JEDDAH: IBRAHIM NAFFEE Piles of household waste in dumpsters, which include cartons, tin cans and metal and glass items, are a lucrative source of income for many illegal African women. They collect the waste materials to sell in the scrap...

By Mary Dejevsky A woman walks past a clothes shop in the Sparkbrook area of Birmingham, central England May 12, 2011. Darren Staples/Reuters On a damp day in Britain in May, with the sky threatening worse, the long residential streets are quiet. It could be almost anywhere: two-story brick terraces, front gardens paved and parked over, glassed-in...

Somalia’s foreign minister Abdurrahman Dualeh Beileh (Colin Freeman) Life in comfortable Britain is “boring” compared to challenges of repairing Somalia’s broken state, says foreign minister By Colin Freeman Somalis who have claimed refuge in Britain should abandon comfortable lives in the “boring” West and return to rebuild their war-torn homeland, the country’s foreign minister has...

By Deodatus Balile in Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam — Tanzania has agreed to train Somali soldiers as part of its efforts to support peace and security in Somalia, but some Tanzanian officials have expressed concern that further involvement in Somali affairs could invite terrorist attacks from al-Shabaab. The agreement to train 1,000 Somali...

By Adrian Croft U.N. special representative for Somalia Nicholas Kay (C) inspects Ugandan peacekeeping troops during a ceremony at Mogadishu airport in Somalia May 18, 2014. CREDIT: REUTERS/FEISAL OMAR Hard-won security gains in Somalia could be undermined unless the rest of the world steps up support to improve Somalis’ lives, the United Nations’ special representative...