A judge said he respected religious beliefs but that the law of Ireland had to be observed as he sentenced a Somali man for slaughtering four goats in Halal fashion in a house in Tralee. By Anne Lucey Judge Carroll Moran imposed a one-year prison sentence on Somali asylum-seeker Rashid Kibaga for cruelty to animals,...
By Matt Shea There are a great many people in the UK who won’t have heard of khat. It’s not a drug that’s ever been glamourised in popular music or film; there is no khat Trainspotting or “Ebeneezer Goode”. Sure, the Mail may have linked it to terrorism and street attacks carried out by immigrants, but what haven’t the Mail linked to...
By Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – An Iranian ship laden with arms seized by Yemeni authorities in January may also have been bound for Somalia, according to a confidential U.N. report seen by Reuters on Monday. Yemeni forces intercepted the ship, the Jihan 1, off Yemen’s coast on January 23. U.S. and...
Nairobi (AP) – A terror suspect is killed in what police describe as a gun battle. Recovered weapons are displayed for the news media. Hours later another suspect accused of terror links is dead in what police call a shootout. Witnesses and the family of the dead tell a different story: That the suspects were...
BY PROSPER MAKENE The government has refuted the claims that there are some Al-Shabaab terrorists among the 1,300 Somali refugees who have been granted full Tanzanian citizenship. The Somalis entered the country as refugees and were accommodated at Chogo settlement in Tanga Region. They are still in the process of being naturalised. Speaking in an...
Juba, – South Sudanese soldiers have unlawfully detained and ill-treated more than 130 civilians since February 2013 in response to armed violence and inter-communal fighting in Lakes state, Human Rights Watch said today. Soldiers rounded up dozens of young men, often detaining others if they couldn’t find the suspects they were seeking, and held them...
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,...