Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen The direct involvement of women and girls in terrorism has attracted increased interest as the nature of recruitment tactics has evolved. In Kenya, their involvement in terrorist networks, such as the Al-Shabaab, is an emerging trend. The recruitment of female members is most evident in Kenya’s coastal and North Eastern counties but has...
November 14, 2026
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Clashes in Mogadishu throw Somalia’s political crisis into a dangerous new phase
By Max Bearak NAIROBI — Gun and mortar fire could be heard in central Mogadishu on Friday morning amid a lockdown imposed by the Somali government — a measure ostensibly intended to enforce social distancing but timed to coincide with mass protests called by opposition parties. Somalia has been in a constitutional crisis for nearly two...
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Ethiopia’s Tigray region hit by power blackout
Ethiopia’s conflict-torn northern Tigray region has been hit by an electricity blackout, the government said Wednesday, blaming the outage on the ousted ruling party in the semi-autonomous zone. Tigray has been the theatre of fighting since early November 2020, when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced military operations against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), accusing...
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Wake up Somalia! Your nascent democracy is perishing again in the hands of a despot in the image of the late dictator- PART II
Dr Aweys Omar Mohamoud This is day 10 of an elected incumbent subverting democracy in Somalia, after his term ended. An incumbent takeover occurs when a democratically elected leader undermines key tenets of democracy, most often by abolishing or manipulating elections. According to various political science literature, military coups and incumbent takeovers together account for...
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Djibouti lures foreign powers with strategic position
French officers take part in a two-week training exercise in Djibouti’s desert France’s armed forces are straining their sinews in Djibouti right now, training in the desert alongside local troops and practicing air defence while elite units are doing assault exercises. Down at Djibouti’s port, workers are busy preparing for the arrival of the French...
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Ethiopia urges Sudan to heed treaty in border row
Sudan crossed border with Ethiopia in November, two days after attack on Ethiopian National Defense Forces in Tigray Addis Getachew ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Sudan must abide by provisions of the latest treaty it signed with Ethiopia that prohibits either side to violate the status quo until a demarcation agreement is reached, Ethiopian Ambassador Ibrahim Idris...
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NBA star Stephen Jackson on converting to Islam: ‘I needed to listen to my heart’
‘Allah has blessed me with so much already, and now he has blessed me with Islam,’ said Jackson. By Omar Suleiman Stephen Jackson, the NBA star who led the Golden State Warriors’ 2007 “We Believe” playoff run, has not stopped moving since he retired from basketball in 2015. Appearing frequently on ESPN as a commentator on...
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Mandera cop shot in clash with Somali Army flown to Nairobi for treatment
by CYRUS OMBATI One of the police officers who was shot and wounded in a clash with the Somali National Army at the Mandera Border has been flown to Nairobi for treatment. Officials said the corporal was seriously wounded in the leg and needed specialized treatment. He was flown on Wednesday by a hired fixed-wing light...
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Condemning Al-shabaab terrorist atrocities is not enough, we must defeat them
Dr Aweys Omar Mohamoud We, in this campaign, were deeply saddened to learn of the deaths and injuries of innocent Somali people on 31 January terrorist attack on Hotel Afrique near KM Four in Mogadishu. We strongly condemn their murder by al-Shabaab terrorists and offer sincere condolences to their families. General Mohamed Nur Galaal, a...
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‘Their goal is to destroy everyone’: Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape
By Matthew Hill, David Campanale and Joel Gunter The men always wore masks, Tursunay Ziawudun said, even though there was no pandemic then. They wore suits, she said, not police uniforms. Sometime after midnight, they came to the cells to select the women they wanted and took them down the corridor to a “black room”,...