Files on her seized computer show her relentless quest for mass carnage – and that she has the funds to carry it out Police hunting for the White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite fear she is planning more deadly attacks after masterminding the Nairobi shopping centre massacre. It has been revealed that documents found on her laptop show the...
November 14, 2026
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Somalia Seeks Foreign Investment in Energy Sector – Big Oil Cautious
By John Daly il companies are renowned for going into hostile environments in their relentless search for the world’s seemingly insatiable thirst for “black gold.” That said, there remain a few nations where even the intrepid masters of the universe hesitate to tread. In Central Asia, it is Afghanistan, despite the nation’s purported 1.6 billion barrels...
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Somalia: soldiers shock Museveni with more leaks
WRITTEN BY EDWARD SSEKIKA In a bid to get to the root of the reported theft of UPDF food rations in Somalia, President Museveni on Thursday staged a surprise inquiry, questioning soldiers fresh from the battlefield. After hours of listening to personal testimonies from low- cadre soldiers, the commander in chief was dumbfounded, sources at...
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Kenya had to move in and stop Al-Shabaab’s ‘bandit economy’
By Gitau Warigi Those busy questioning why the Kenyan army is in Somalia fall into two categories: those who are simply ignorant and those serving a pan-Somali agenda. Tetu MP Ndung’u Gethinji, who chairs the Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations, recently gave the most lucid rationale I have heard so far for the...
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Kenya’s Ethnic Somalis Live in Fear After Mall Attack
By David Malingha Doya Ali Mohammed says that once close friends regard him and his fellow ethnic Somalis in Kenyaas “enemies of the state” since Islamist militants attacked a shopping mall in the capital, Nairobi. “I’m living in a lot of fear,” Mohammed, who runs a trucking business, said in an interview in Nairobi’s Eastleigh suburb, a...
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Nairobi attack puts pressure on Somalia leader to shape up or ship out
By MALKHADIR M MUHUMED, The Somalia government is facing fresh pressure from regional governments and local politicians to quickly roll out a slate of security and reconciliation reforms or face a “regime change” in the wake of the recent attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi by Al Shabaab. Regional governments are concerned about Mogadishu’s...
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Barkhad Abdi, ‘Captain Phillips’ Star, On Growing Up In Somalia To Starring With Tom Hanks
By Mike Ryan It’s that old success story you’ve heard a million times: Born in Somalia, moved to Minneapolis, now stars in a major motion picture opposite Tom Hanks. Could it getmore cliche? (OK, yes, it could. A lot.) In “Captain Phillips,” Barkhad Abdi stars as Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, the lead hijacker of the Maersk Alabama that eventually resulted...
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Saudi Arabia: Haj Ministry to embark on new mega-projects
JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID The Kingdom is poised for massive urban development this year with the implementation of several first-of-its-kind projects, Bandar Hajjar, minister of Haj, said. In an interview with Arab News, Hajjar said: “The government has allocated billions of riyals for these projects, some of which are already under way. Several others will be...
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Somalia Says Regional Oil Permits Invalid
By Eduard Gismatullin Somalia’s federal government, seeking to reassert control over the war-ravaged country, said oil exploration licenses issued by regional governments in the Somaliland and Puntland regions of country are invalid. Genel Energy, Africa Oil Corp., and Ophir Energy have won licenses to search in Somalia’s semi-autonomous regions, although work has been slowed down by security concerns as...
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Canadian teens jailed in Somaliland start hunger strike
Two Mississauga brothers sentenced for gang-rape in Africa stop eating. By: Gemma Karstens-Smith Two Canadian teenagers detained in a Somaliland jail have started a hunger strike, their father says. Liiban and Jamal Noor were sentenced in August to 10 years in jail for the gang-rape of two young women. The brothers, both born and raised in...