A teenage girl and her young niece arrived unaccompanied from Somalia earlier this year and have now gone missing Police are appealing for information to trace a missing six-year-old girl and her teenage aunt. Zeenat Abdala, 16, and her niece Lutfiya Salum were last seen at around noon on Saturday as they left their home...
October 21, 2026
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The woman with a five STONE leg: Somali mother’s limb ballooned because of elephantiasis – but neighbours think she’s possessed by the Devil
By EMMA INNES A Somali woman’s leg has ballooned to five stone after it became infected with parasites. Sadia Abdinur, 35, has been shunned by her friends and neighbours because they are convinced she has been possessed by the Devil. The mother-of-two contracted elephantiasis and, as a result, is immobile and unable to feed her children....
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Keeping remittances to Somalia flowing
LONDON, (IRIN) – Never has the UK’s Somali community taken so much interest in a court case. Dahabshiil Holdings Ltd, by far the biggest company remitting money from the UK to Somalia, has taken Barclays to court to try to prevent the bank closing down its account, without which the company says it cannot legally...
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Addis, seat of AU in a bad light
By Kiflu Hussain Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia where I was born and built my life until I had to abandon it in January 2007, had recently been cast in a bad light. Those who might be familiar with Addis including its blackouts that earned the state owned Electric Corporation a nickname “Power of Darkness”...
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The Richest People In Africa 2013
VENTURES AFRICA – The combined fortune of Africa’s 55 billionaires is $143.88 billion. The average net worth of the members of this exclusive club is $2.6 billion, while the median age of the richest people in Africa is 65 years. The oldest billionaires are Kenyan industrialist, Manu Chandaria, and Egyptian property tycoon, Mohammed Al-Fayed, both...
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The Millionaire’s Wife Who Feeds 40,000 Children
Mfonobong Nsehe, Contributor It’s 3pm on a crisp August afternoon in Johannesburg. Tsitsi Masiyiwa is seated on a comfy couch in a makeshift living room at her elegant office in the leafy suburbs of Dainfern, north of the city. I meet her when she is in a deep conversation with a South African journalist and...
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Somali Militants Mixing Business and Terror
Shabab Militants Draw Money From East Africa’s Underworld: The group has profited from Illicit ivory, kidnappings, piracy ransoms, smuggled charcoal, extorted payments from aid organizations and even fake charity drives. By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and NICHOLAS KULISH NAIROBI, Kenya — Illicit ivory, kidnappings, piracy ransoms, smuggled charcoal, extorted payments from aid organizations and even fake charity drives pretending to collect...
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Shabaab finances face squeeze after Kenya attack
Al Shabaab emerged as a regional threat funded by millions of dollars from activities ranging from extortion to taxing charcoal exports, but its attack on a Kenyan shopping mall is expected to provoke a counter-terrorism response aimed at crippling the Somali Islamist group’s finances. The money is important to al Shabaab, a group whose aims...
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When the Somali president tried to settle old scores with another clan, opportunity presents itself for Al Shabaab
By Abdul Ghelleh I must come out of my procrastinating den in Doha and key in few words about the circumstances surrounding the terrorist attacks in Nairobi’s Westgate Mall. Exactly twelve days ago, I was in Nairobi. I lived in the city’s Hurlingham area for almost a year, not far from the Westgate Mall where...
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Somalia wants sanctions ended for ‘Shebab banker’
Somalia’s government has demanded UN sanctions be lifted from a businessman accused of being a chief financier for Al-Qaeda inspired insurgents fighting the internationally-backed authorities, the information minister said Sunday. Banker and businessman Ali Ahmed Nur Jimale, who was placed on a United Nations Security Council sanction list in February 2012, is accused of being...