By Patrick Vidija , The Star Kenya’s Ambassador to Somalia Lucas Tumbo was on Thursday summoned by Somalia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and handed a protest note. The move came after an alleged violation of a Kenyan plane on Somali airspace on Saturday when it landed at Kismayo Airport without any official permission. Somali’s Minister Abdulkadir Ahmed-kheir...
By STEVE KARNOWSKI MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Democrats, Muslims and other groups condemned President Donald Trump on Friday for criticizing the state for welcoming so many Somali refugees, and they called out Republican leaders for failing to criticize his statements. At his campaign rally Thursday night in Minneapolis, which is home to the largest Somali population in...
By Abdihakim M Abdi In the past few months we have seen an intensification of the conflict between the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) and the Federal Member States (FMS). From the outset, it was apparent that the centralist Nabad and Nolol (N&N) administration was adamant to bring the country towards a more concentrated power structure where...
DUBAI (Reuters) – Yemen’s Saudi-backed government and southern separatists are close to a deal that would end a power struggle in the southern port of Aden and see Saudi forces take temporary control of the city, four sources familiar with the negotiations said. Saudi Arabia, leader of an Arab coalition battling Yemen’s Houthi movement, has...
John Bowker Ethiopian Airlines Group would consider buying a stake in South African Airways — should South Africa decide to sell equity in the struggling state carrier. SAA hasn’t made a profit since 2011 and last week delayed the release of annual earnings due to its precarious financial state. While the ruling African National Congress...
THEODORA AIDOO The naming ceremony of a new baby is one of the most important rites of passage in life. In traditional African society, the naming ceremony announces the birth of a newborn, introduces the child to his or her extended family and the larger community, and above all, it confers on the child a...
Mica Rosenberg, Elias Biryabarema NEW YORK/KAMPALA (Reuters) – Somali refugee Ramlo Ali Noor will never be reunited with her 16-year-old son in her new home in Columbus, Ohio. She had been waiting since applying to the U.S. government in 2015 to bring over her three boys from Uganda, but their cases faced hold-ups in refugee processing...
By Liban Ahmed Somalis have different conceptions about justice. Nothing has prepared us for the legacy of twenty plus years of dictatorship and the subsequent state collapse. The surfacing of a photo showing Yusuf Abdi Ali posing for the camera with the President of the Federal Government of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed in Washington, DC,...
Three men hit in their vehicle as they were returning home from their fields US has labelled men ‘Al-Shabaab terrorists’ without providing evidence Killings part of an airstrike surge under Trump, which has seen at least 131 killed in US drone and manned aircraft attacks in Somalia ‘No thought is given to the civilian victims...
By Faisal A. Roble On September 28, 2019, as many as 550 young adults, including underage kids, were rounded up in Jigjga by the security forces and were exiled to a camp located in Goday, about 500 miles from their home. This move by the security forces in Jigjiga did not consult the parents and...