By Ron Zeitlinger/The Jersey Journal A Bayonne man was sentenced yesterday to 18 months in prison for lying to federal officials investigating a North Bergen man and an Elmwood Park man who were planning to kill on behalf of a Somalia terrorist group. Mohamed Osman, 21, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Dickinson R. Debevoise on...
By HELEN LAWSON An IT contractor claims an off-the-cuff remark about a bacon sandwich cost him a £1,000-a-week job. Clive Hunt, 58, says he was offered an eight-month NHS contract after attending an interview set up by recruitment firm Reed. But he says he lost out on the job after he told a recruitment consultant he...
ST. LOUIS — The businessman responsible for the fatal St. Louis shooting of three employees before turning the gun on himself was a Somali immigrant, described by friends as an intelligent man who was quick to reach out to other new-arriving Somalis, but who had lingering anger years after the divorce from his first wife. Police...
By GEOFFREY MOSOKU Kenya: The simmering tension between the Government of Mogadishu and that in Nairobi over the establishment of Somali’s breakaway State of Jubaland has gotten intervention from a likely source. State of Jubaland President, Sheikh Ahmed Madobe, has said Kenya is not behind the establishment of his newly breakaway state. Madobe, who was recently elected President of the semi-autonomous region,...
By RASHID ABDI Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud has denied relations between Kenya and Somalia had soured following the setting up of a new administration in Jubaland headed by Sheikh Ahmed Madobe. In an interview with Nation’s Rashid Abdi, in Nairobi, President Hassan said his “special retreat” with President Kenyatta had put ties on a sure footing....
By Malkhadir Muhumed Somalia: Somalia has turned down request from Kenya to re-open talks to demarcate maritime boundaries. This is the second time the issue is raising diplomatic rift between the two neighbours. The decision by Somalia’s Cabinet has the potential of discouraging oil companies from conducting offshore oil and gas explorations in contested waters. Some of...
GEOFFREY YORK HARGEISA, SOMALIA — The Globe and Mail Just moments after hearing that his brother had been arrested, Bashe Abdi Godane saw the convoy of police cars descending on his mother’s home. Seven vehicles roared down the dusty street in the noonday sun. Dozens of masked gun-wielding police commandos leaped out of the cars, blocked off...
By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON, June 4 (Reuters) – Some call it neurological diversity, others see it as autism’s fight back. People diagnosed as “on the spectrum” are suddenly in demand by employers seeking a competitive advantage from autistic workers more used to being considered disabled than special. Expressing a belief that...
BY MARGARET WAHITO Nairobi — After 22 years of civil strife and political turmoil, a new era has dawned on Somalia and the country is embarking on a dynamic path of political and economic renewal. This is after the successful liberation of large territory from the control of Al Shabaab militia last year by the...
New York, May 30, 2012–Ethiopian authorities have detained since Friday a reporter who sought to interview people evicted from their homes in a region where the government is building a contentious hydro-electric dam on the Blue Nile, according to a news report and the reporter’s editor. The Committee to Protect Journalists said today that the case highlights...