GARISSA, Kenya, Residents living along the Kenya-Somalia border have been forced to walk a long distance in search of telecommunication network following the destruction of local mobile phone service providers’ masts by suspected al-Shabab militants. The strange turn of events has seen people struggling to communicate with the outside world as well as missing out...
By Lul Araweelo Kulmiye On January 12, 2019, I had the honor to meet Ahmed Ali Dahir, Somalia’s Attorney General, in his office in Mogadishu. He was kind enough to let me interview him and ask him some pressing issues about the judiciary, condition of prisons, fighting corruption, and the day-to-day work of his office....
A tiny number of Syrian refugees, having travelled through Sudan, work in restaurants while others beg in Addis Ababa. by Elias Gebreselassie Abdulwahid Mohammed, a Syrian refugee, serves Ethiopian customers at Damascus Restaurant in Addis Ababa [Michael Tewelde/Al Jazeera] Addis Ababa – Abdulwahid Mohammed, a young Syrian refugee from Hama, is tending to customers at Damascus,...
Jamie Dettmer FILE – This combination of 2018 photos shows then-Representatives-elect Ilhan Omar, left, and Rashida Tlaib, in Washington. Omar and Tlaib have drawn political attacks from Saudi Arabia for allegedly representing views not in line with those of the kingdom. WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia may learn to regret the political attacks launched from the kingdom...
Vincent Achuka A mysterious woman identified as Mariam Abdi who played a key role in the delivery of the weapons used in the Dusit D2 terror strike has continued to be elusive as it emerged that the artillery used in the Tuesday attack made its way to the country from Somalia. Officers from the Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) who have been on...
By Rasheed Hashi Over the last few weeks, many Somalis have pondered and posed an important question: after nearly 60 years of independence, why do we need a white man – a muzungu or saan-cadde as we say – to play babysitter and lead a sovereign, Somali entity? If reports are accurate about the potential...
By JESSICA FINN Journalist Amanda Lindhout was able to help authorities arrest her Somali captor, Ali Omar Ader, who held her for ransom as she was raped, after he reached out to her on Facebook and said ‘Hello.’ Lindhout, whose gripping and horrific capture saw her and her boyfriend, Nigel Brennan, kidnapped in Somalia in 2008 for...
A Uganda Airlines plane before it was recommended for liquidation in 2001.The carrier plans to launch commercial services with four Bombardier aircraft and 36 pilots. FILE PHOTO | NMG By MICHAEL WAKABI Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has intervened in the Uganda Airlines saga after the launch date was pushed back by a further two months....
Panu Wongcha-uni Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, a Saudi woman who claims to be fleeing her country and family, is seen in Bangkok, Thailand January 7, 2019 in this still image taken from a video obtained from social media. TWITTER/ @rahaf84427714/via REUTERS BANGKOK (Reuters) – The father of an 18-year-old Saudi woman asylum seeker who fled to...
Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir added that the ‘Zionist lobby that controls Western countries’ is behind the sanctions on Sudan Jack Khoury Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir arrives to meet with police officials at the headquarters of the “police house” in the capital Khartoum on December 30, 2018./AFP Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir said on Saturday that his...