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With 32 years of experience driving a Muslim hearse, Ibrahim proudly talks about his career saying that its all about dedication. As others may consider his job to be that of a mere driver, what they do not know is that he indirectly earns thawabs for escorting a jenaza By ThE NEw DAWN REPORTER In a...

Joseph Okanga/Reuters By Margot Kiser The United States supports Nairobi’s fight against terrorists, but it’s getting very ugly. MOMBASA, Kenya—“The state wants to kill me,” the 53-year-old jihadist Abubakar Shariff Ahmed, better known as “Makaburi,” told me in late February. He said he was sure that one day he’d be gunned down by “unknown assailants”...

BY JOSEPH AKWIRI Muslim cleric Abubakar Shariff speaks during an interview in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa in this October 5, 2013 file photograph. CREDIT: REUTERS/THOMAS MUKOYA/FILE A prominent Kenyan Islamist, accused by the United States and U.N. Security Council of supporting the Somali militant group al Shabaab, was shot dead on Tuesday, police said. Abubakar...

AJ: Somalis had very high expectations of the government. Now there’s a lot of criticism of the government’s complacency and inability to provide what it promised. People are feeling disconnected from your government.  Ahmed: Things are changing. My ministers are engaging very closely with the people in Mogadishu. The strategy is to work very closely with...

AU Special Representative Mahamet Annadiff Saleh toured AMISOM’s Mogadishu base when he arrived in Mogadishu in 2012. Timothy Donangmaye WASHINGTON — As the UN-authorized African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) continues its military offensive against al-Shabab insurgents in central Somalia, the rainy season approaches. Ethiopian military forces joined the AMISOM force in January, bringing troop levels...

By Jonathan Walker Home Office survey of people of Somali origin in Birmingham in 2005 found that 34 per cent said they had chewed khat in month before the interview Khat The Home Secretary has rejected calls to rethink a planned ban on the drug khat, which is most commonly used by people of East African...

Nairobi ( HRW)  – The Kenyan authorities should reconsider a new plan to forcibly move 50,000 registered refugees and asylum seekers from cities to overcrowded and underserviced refugee camps, Human Rights Watch said today. News media reported that Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Ole Lenku made the announcement on March 25, 2014, two days after unidentified...

By Eduard Gismatullin Somalia is conducting offshore surveys in hopes of attracting explorers including Royal Dutch Shell Plc two decades after the outbreak of a bloody civil war drove foreign investors away. The East African country plans to hold a licensing tender next year after Soma Oil and Gas, funded by Russian billionaire Alexander Djaparidze, completes...

MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) –    He’s an Oscar-nominated actor, the new face of MNsure and arguably the  biggest star in Minnesota’s Somali community — but Barkhad Abdi recently ran  into travel trouble due to troubles in his past. On Tuesday, Abdi will meet with Customs and Border Patrol for what’s known as  a “deferred inspection” because the actor...

By William Davison Ethiopia will begin generating electricity within 18 months from what will be Africa’s largest power plant, the government said. The sale of 7.1 billion birr ($367 million) of bonds over the past three years to domestic investors, has contributed to the 27 billion birr spent so far on the 75.5 billion birr Grand Ethiopian...