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...
By: PAUL LEVY Members wants answers in the wake of a video in which a teacher is seen tussling with a student after breaking up a classroom fight. Somali community members are calling for an independent investigation of an incident in which they say a Champlin Park High School teacher choked a Somali student while...
By William Davison Ethiopia will receive $1 billion in funding from the Brazilian Development Bank to build a section of a railway that will be extended to connect to neighboring South Sudan, a Foreign Ministry official said. Andrade Gutierrez Participacoes SA of Brazil will build the link running from the capital, Addis Ababa, to Jimma about 439 kilometers...
Michael Adebolajo had been a peaceful, if radical, placard-waving figure on Woolwich’s high street. What, then, prompted his involvement in the horrific acts witnessed last week? Jamie Doward Clutching a placard protesting at a “Crusade against Muslims”, Michael Adebolajo was a striking figure. Dressed in immaculate white robes, the young man’s imposing physical presence made...
Man detained after claiming on television that Michael Adebolajo was tortured in Kenya and harassed by MI5 agents Conal Urquhart and Vikram Dodd A friend of one of the suspected killers of a soldier butchered in aLondon street was arrested by counter-terrorism officers yesterday after going on television to allege that Michael Adebolajo was tortured inKenya and...