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The South African Nelson Mandela foundation on Saturday denied the report that Mandela received the training from Israeli agents in 1962. “We can confirm that we have not located any evidence in Nelson Mandela’s private archive that he interacted with an Israeli operative,” the foundation said in a statement. The statement came after a British...

By Jacey Fortin ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia– Members of this northeast African nation’s most prominent opposition party say they weren’t doing anything wrong one day in late September when police officers came along to stop, question and detain them. Several members of the group had gathered in Kazanches, a central neighborhood in Ethiopia’s capital city of...

Written by Brandon Brooks Nothing ever came easy for financial expert, Dega Nalayeh, but the Somalia native, who grew up in a family of 12 children, has made her transition into the billion dollar financial industry look as smooth as her beautiful skin coat. Nalayeh migrated to Canada before arriving in the United States and...

Thamsanqa Jantjie, who says he had schizophrenic episode at memorial, was taken for check-up then admitted David Smith An interpreter accused of faking sign language at Nelson Mandela‘s memorial service has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital for treatment. Thamsanqa Jantjie has claimed that he had a schizophrenic episode and saw angels descending on the Johannesburg stadium where...

The semi-autonomous Somali region will choose a new president in January. Malkhadir Muhumed Nairobi, Kenya – As presidential elections approach in Puntland, the candidates in the running have accused one another of failing Somalia’s semi-autonomous region. The international community is closely watching Puntland’s January 8 election, worrying that increased instability in the region could damage Somalia’s...

By William Davison Teklai Hagos says he watched in horror as Saudi Arabian police beat Ethiopian migrants protesting against the alleged kidnapping and rapes of Ethiopian women by young Saudi men. “When we said stop, then the police started hitting us,” the 30-year-old former pipe-factory worker in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, recalled in an interview...

The international human rights organization Open Society Foundations’ (OSF) fresh study documents the experiences of Somalis living in Oslo. Drawing data from interviews and discussion groups with both Norwegian-Somalis and key stakeholders in the city, it points out that many Norwegian-Somalis feel excluded from the society. One of the report’s important aspects is how the media has helped shape...

By Christopher Rose The 2014 Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations included some big-name snubs, but also some great surprises. Take Barkhad Abdi, the 28-year-old Somali-born actor who was nominated in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role category by SAG for his work in “Captain Phillips.” “I don’t know how to thank them,” Abdi told...

ALAN CLENDENNING JOHANNESBURG: A man who provided sign language interpretation on stage for Nelson Mandela’s memorial service, attended by scores of heads of state, was a “fake,” the national director of the Deaf Federation of South Africa said on Wednesday. The unidentified man seen around the world on television next to leaders including United States...