By Nicola Nasser Writing in The Washington Post on February 27, 2011, Rachel Bronson asked: “Could the next Mideast uprising happen in Saudi Arabia?” Her answer was: “The notion of a revolution in the Saudi kingdom seems unthinkable.” However, On September 30 the next year, the senior foreign policy fellow at the Saban Center for...
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Ethiopia: Silence, Pain, Lies and Abductions
By Muktar M. Omer Template denials The Ethiopian Government, through its foreign ministry, responded to Martin Plaut’s article “Silence and Pain: Ethiopia’s human rights record in the Ogaden” with the usual feigned shock and template denial that has long characterized the regime’s political personality. It is the established behavior of aggressive and autocratic regimes to...
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Our policewoman on life in Somalia
WRITTEN BY ZURAH NAKABUGO As the world’s most lawless country, Somalia conjures up images of bullets, bombs, blood and death. But according to a Ugandan policewoman, people in Somalia still find time for beach walks, jogging, swimming and playing volleyball. Betty Napeyok, 39, is a senior officer with Amisom, the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia,...
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U.N. says almost all Muslims have fled Central African capital
By Stephanie Nebehay (Reuters) – Fewer than 1,000 remain of more than 100,000 Muslims who once lived in the capital of the Central African Republic, after a campaign of violence by Christian militias, the U.N. aid chief said on Friday. With 650,000 people displaced by the religious conflict, Valerie Amos said the United Nations had...
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Hotel chain eyes Somalia peace dividends
By Philip Mwakio Kenya: One of the first Kenyan owned hotel management company, Icon Hotel Group Africa is set reap Somalia’s peace dividends by setting up a branch in the country. Peace and normalcy has returned to the Horn of Africa State after Kenya and the African Union defeated the Alshabab. Somalia had not known...
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In Somalia, rape is normal, but the government can change that
By Samer Muscati Commentary: In a country where one-third of the victims of sexual crimes are children, police training and a “zero-tolerance policy” can go a long way. MOGADISHU, Somalia – Maryam, a 37-year-old single mother who was gang raped in late 2012 in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, told us that she regretted going to the police...
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Minnesota group meets with Somali youth in Kenya to intercept al-Shabab’s radical message
BY AMY FORLITI MINNEAPOLIS ( AP) — While visiting a Somali refugee camp in Kenya, Mohamed Farah was struck by a young man who spends each day just waiting for it to end. The roughly 20-year-old man told Farah he has nothing to fill his time. No sense of identity. No future. No hope. So,...
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Africa’s Next Oil Frontier – Ethiopia?
By John Daly Sitting athwart the headwaters of the Blue Nile, Ethiopia has long seen its energy future in its hydropower potential, being able to export electricity to neighboring countries. That picture may be about to be somewhat altered however. British oil firm New Age (African Global Energy) Ltd works a concession in Ethiopia’s southeastern...
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Two Kenyans held by Somali pirates ‘are cousins’ – Seafarers Union
By GALGALO BOCHA The two Kenyan engineers abducted by suspected Somali pirates last month in Mogadishu are close family members from Nairobi’s Rongai area, the Seafarers Union of Kenya has revealed. The union’s secretary-general Andrew Mwangura said families of the two, who are cousins, were expected home two days before their abduction after completing their...
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Zimbabwe’s Mugabe turns 90
(Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe turned 90 on Friday, far from home on a medical trip that has intensified concerns about his health and stoked a simmering succession battle in a country under his thumb for more than three decades. When Mugabe left for Singapore this week, spokesman George Charamba maintained the official denial...