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By Benjamin Harvey Somaliland’s government hired private security experts to help improve safety after Genel Energy Plc (GENL) suspended operations in the semi-autonomous region citing growing instability, Foreign Minister Mohamed Bihi Yonis said. A team including John Holmes, a former commander in the U.K. special forces, will deliver a report this week in the capital, Hargeisa, on security in...

Interview by Ali Adam in Mogadishu Singer-songwriter Hiba Mohamed Huddon, better known as Hiba Nura, returned to Somalia last month after an absence of more than two decades. In the late 1980s, Hiba was part of Waaberi, a famous Somali group known for its popular performances at Mogadishu’s National Theatre and its distinctive nationalistic-themed songs and plays....

A beacon of hope in a still struggling country, Adan hopes diaspora Somalis will bring their education back to help write the next, happier chapter. By: Nicholas Keung She is Somalia’s most powerful woman: a thorn in the eyes of Mogadishu-based terrorist group Al Shabab, and a ray of hope for her country in the Horn...

Somalia will engage in tight cooperation with Turkey on counterterrorism issues, its prime minister announced during an interview published Oct. 3. The country in the Horn of Africa faces a constant threat from the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab organization, which controlled the capital Mogadishu until recently and conducted a deadly attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi...

Mother left child with rapist and found her bleeding on return Saeed Al Batati, Correspondent Sana’a: Yemen security services in the southern province of Taiz are investigating rape and death case of a two year old Somali child, Gulf News has learnt from security officials. “Nine days ago, a Somali woman who was cradling a...

By Howard Altman | Tribune Staff Holed up in an abandoned house on a war-torn Somali street, in pain after being shot in the back and surrounded by an unknown number of enemy soldiers, it dawned on Chris Faris that he would never see his family again. “When I accepted the fact that I was going...

An estimated 80,000 people took part in a street demonstration against Ethiopia’s anti-terrorism law on 29 September in response to a call from Unity for Democratic Justice, an opposition group that spent more than three months rallying support for the protest. Adopted in 2009, the much-criticized anti-terrorism law enables the government to justify arbitrary arrests...

Shabab Militants Draw Money From East Africa’s Underworld: The group has profited from Illicit ivory, kidnappings, piracy ransoms, smuggled charcoal, extorted payments from aid organizations and even fake charity drives. By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and NICHOLAS KULISH NAIROBI, Kenya — Illicit ivory, kidnappings, piracy ransoms, smuggled charcoal, extorted payments from aid organizations and even fake charity drives pretending to collect...

Samantha Lewthwaite’s story may never be fully known, but I know from experience that some converts to Islam, desperate to prove themselves, end up radicalised Khadija Magardie In Islamic circles it isn’t polite to call a new adherent a convert. The preferred term is a “revert”. The idea is that Islam is the natural state...