Somalia has opened urgent talks with regional authorities to avoid a constitutional crisis. The Horn of Africa nation looks certain to miss a February 8 deadline to elect a new president. Kate Hairsine Somalia’s president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohammed, has convened an urgent 3-day meeting with federal state leaders. The conference in Dusamareb, some 400 km...
PATRICK VIDIJA Tension along the Kenya-Somalia border remains after Kenyan police officers were shot by the Somalia National Army. The Star has established that the two officers were among a team of eight officers under the multi-agency team consisting of KPS, CIPU and KRA. The eight were patrolling and manning the border point at pb3...
By CARA ANNA NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government has privately told Biden administration staffers its embattled Tigray region has “returned to normalcy,” but new witness accounts describe terrified Tigray residents hiding in bullet-marked homes and a vast rural area where effects of the fighting and food shortages are yet unknown. The conflict that began...
By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Ali Jamac Dhoodi thought his son was working as a security guard in Qatar, helping prepare for next year’s soccer World Cup. Then one day last April, officials from Somalia’s National Intelligence Agency arrived with $10,000 in cash. They told him his son had died – not in Qatar, but...
The sovereign council denied that discussions to cancel the law were taking place. By MAARIV ONLINE Sudan is expected to discuss cancelling the law that forbids establishing relations with Israel, according to a claim made on Saturday by a source in the country’s Justice Ministry. The report was first published by “Makan” Kan News’ Arabic news source. The...
By Michael Georgy HAMDAYET, Sudan (Reuters) – The young coffee seller said she was split from family and friends by an Ethiopian soldier at the Tekeze river, taken down a path, and given a harrowing choice. “He said: ‘Choose, either I kill you or rape you’,” the 25-year-old told Reuters at the Hamdayet refugee camp in...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – Pressure is growing on Somalia´s government amid allegations that Somali soldiers have been sent to fight in neighboring Ethiopia´s deadly Tigray conflict. Mothers have held rare protests in Somalia´s capital, Mogadishu, and elsewhere, demanding to know the fate of their children who originally were sent to Eritrea for military training. They...
Priscilla Hwang Leaders of a Somali organization in Ottawa say their relationship with Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) has been severely damaged after the department rejected its funding application by arguing it’s not Black enough. “At this day and age, to come across something like that was very, very, very shock[ing] and somewhat uncalled for,”...
By Faisal A. Roble Awkward and discomforting stories emerging from Mogadishu of unabashed coziness of Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo with Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed symbolizes the erosion of Somalia’s fledgling recovery from collapse to a tutelage state of Ethiopia. Regrettably, subjecting Somali social psychology to the very force that colonized, humiliated, and massacred their forefathers is a...
By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Amina Mohamed Abdi was just 24 when she first stood for Somalia’s parliament in 2012, defeating two other candidates to win a seat reserved for women and defying elders from her Hawiye clan, some of whom denounced her as immodest. “I was asked ‘you want to be a prostitute? How...