Maulid Hujale International organisations accused of ignoring local people’s knowledge and expertise and promoting foreigners to top jobs When Sahra Koshin first returned to Somalia from the Netherlands in 2008, she was full of hope and courage. Eager to use her expertise in gender development to rebuild her wartorn country, she immediately started work with one of...
BY ANNETE WAMBULWA Police have been allowed to detain a Mandera County Government driver assigned to two Cuban doctors abducted last week by suspected al Shabaab militants. Nairobi magistrate Muthoni Nzibe said the police could continue holding Issack Ibrein Robow for 15 days to complete investigations into the kidnapping of Drs Assel Correa and Landy...
By NYAMBEGA GISESA In November 2008, al-Shabaab commander Mohamed Toora-Toorow, in the company of 24 men, left Somalia at 11pm and walked several kilometres into Kenya. The mission of his unit was to kidnap two Italian nuns: 67-year-old Maria Teresa Olivero and 60-year-old Caterina Giraudo, employed as aid workers in El Wak, a town in Mandera...
Mandera elders are in Somalia to negotiate with their counterparts the release of two Cuban doctors seized by suspected al Shabaab militants on Friday. Elders in the Somali community are highly regarded and have the ability to resolve dangerous and sometimes complex issues. At least 10 of them left for Somalia yesterday to start the...
By Loyan Farah First, they seize Parliament, then the Courts, and now….the Central Bank . There was once a dictatorship in Somalia under the brutal rule of Mohamed Siad Barre, but someone needs to tell Hassan Ali Kheyre that those days are long gone. Someone also urgently needs to distribute to Villa Somalia copies of...
BY CLAIRE FELTER A surge in the number of U.S. air strikes in Somalia is raising questions about Washington’s mission there, the risk it poses to civilians, and whether Congress should pull back the reins on increasingly opaque military operations in Africa and elsewhere. At Odds Over Civilian Deaths The Trump administration is facing increasing...
By Faisal Roble “People don’t even know that we have political prisoners” :Seko Oding In the Somali Regional State, also known as DDS, the past ghost of autocratic rule refuses to relent. With the Arrest of Khadar Jigre and Ahmed Nuur Sahid, the region has slipped back into a treacherous and dark alleys of oppression...
By:Jermaine Ong SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – A man suspected of killing his wife in a City Heights apartment earlier this month was found and arrested in Panama, San Diego police announced Friday. Abdiaziz Kerow, 45, is accused in the death of his 36-year-old wife Muna Salad Kuri. After being identified as the suspect in the...
US air strikes have been killing civilians in Somalia, in a possible violation of international humanitarian law, Amnesty International says. The rights group said it had recorded 14 civilian deaths in five recent air strikes on territory held by jihadist al-Shabab militants. The US has stepped up its air war in Somalia, carrying out 110...
Somali families feel “stigmatised” by female genital mutilation (FGM) safeguarding practices, a university report has found. Those who took part in the Bristol study cited “intrusive and traumatic” questioning around FGM by school staff, social workers, health practitioners and police. Community leaders are now calling for an end to a “fixation” on FGM. Bristol’s safeguarding...