The planned mass burning of copies of the Koran in the US state of Florida would be “an outrageous and grave gesture,” the Vatican said on Wednesday. The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue said in a statement it had “received with great concern the news of the proposed ‘Koran Burning Day,’” scheduled for the [...]
Dear Mr. President, I am an American citizen of Somali descent, an unaffiliated voter who also happens be in your e-mail list, and you Mr. President, the first lady, the vice president, the DNC and many other Democratic Party officials’ e-mails are regularly finding their way into my inbox. Allow me Mr. President to pick [...]
Four African Union (AU) peacekeepers have been killed in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, after al-Shabab fighters fired a mortar at the presidential palace. “A mortar was fired at one of our positions, and it killed four soldiers and injured eight,” said Ba-Hoku Barigye, a spokesman for the peacekeeping force. Barigye said the dead soldiers are all [...]
Almost 200 women have been raped by rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), during a four-day seizure of a town, aid groups have said. A US aid worker and a Congolese doctor told the Associated Press on Monday that the attacks occurred within miles of a UN peacekeepers’ base Will Cragin of the International [...]
Al shabaab militants attacked hotel Muna, near the Presidential palace, in the Somali capital –popular with MP’s and government ministers. The assault lasted almost half an hour, with fighters wearing military uniform opening fire inside the hotel and later staging suicide bombing. At least 30 people have been killed, including several MP’s. More than 50 [...]
Swedish authorities say they have revoked an arrest warrant that had alleged rape against the founder and editor of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. Assange is “no longer wanted” and “is not suspected of rape,” Chief Prosecutor Eva Finne said in a statement posted on the agency’s official website Saturday. He is also no [...]
ST. PAUL, Minn. – An Ohio man hoping to become the next president of Somalia is campaigning in Minnesota this week. He stopped by Saint Paul seeking to gain support from the Somali community. Locals are hopeful that Presidential Candidate Mohamed Saleban can turn their home country in the right direction. If elected in early 2011, [...]
Kenyans voted for the new constitution for eight main reasons. The reasons, political analysts say, were that people were tired of the old constitution; did not trust the leaders of the ‘No’ team, and the new set of laws was backed by two political heavyweights. Ten new things A bicameral Parliament, consisting of the National [...]
WASHINGTON — The government announced Thursday that it has charged 14 people as participants in “a deadly pipeline” to Somalia that routed money and fighters from the United States to the terrorist group al-Shabab. The indictments unsealed in Minneapolis, Minn.; San Diego, Calif.; and Mobile, Ala., reflect “a disturbing trend” of recruitment efforts targeting U.S. [...]
Lebanese and Israeli soldiers have exchanged fire along their shared border, with each reporting casualties. Three Lebanese soldiers and a journalist were killed by Israeli troops who had crossed the border, unnamed Lebanese officials said. Israel said two of its soldiers had been shot in a buffer zone, but that troops had remained on its [...]
The leaders assembled for the African Union summit in Kampala were sidetracked by the fight against terrorism but Egypt employed the occasion to revive traditional ties with the continent, writes Gamal Nkrumah For the past two weeks, the words “Kampala” and “terrorist bombings” have been synonymous. First there were threats of retaliation against Uganda by [...]
NAIROBI, Kenya — If there is one place on the African continent that could benefit from new thinking, it is Somalia, a country that has been mired in mutating forms of civil war for nearly 20 years. But that is apparently not, many analysts contend, what Africa’s leaders are prepared to give it. Instead, the [...]
The Northern Somalia Unionist Movement (NSUM) and the people of the regions of Sool, Sanag and Cayn (SSC) wholeheartedly welcome Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud (Sililaanyo)’s call for peace in the SSC regions on the occasion of his taking over as leader of the secessionist administration in parts of the NW region of Somalia. Siilaanyo needs no [...]
All 152 people on board a Pakistani plane have been killed after the aircraft plunged into the Margalla Hills near the capital, Islamabad. The interior minister said no survivors had been found as rescuers searched the site after the accident on Wednesday. “Nobody survived,” Rehman Malik told Express TV. The accident occurred as the plane was attempting to land [...]
HARGEISA, Somalia — Fierce fighting broke out Monday between the forces from the Somali breakaway state of Puntland and an Al Qaeda-linked militia, officials said. Security officials said at least three Puntland soldiers died while Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole claimed that 13 rebels were killed in the clashes that erupted near Galgala in western [...]
Piracy and the big money being made out of it is seeping into Kenya’s economic fabric, presenting a serious threat to the economy as well as law and order, experts warn Investigations by the Daily Nation suggest that Kenyan law firms, security, aviation and shipping companies are doing business with pirates rampaging in the Indian Ocean. [...]
When he was still in office, Kenya’s retired President, Daniel arap Moi, woke up in a foul mood one day. And standing at a long forgotten roadside, rungu firmly in hand, he told Somalis in Kenya to go back home. “We also have our own problems,” he fumed. He had been irked by the shenanigans [...]
Commercial explosives, which can be used by terrorists to make bombs, are freely available in Nairobi. For Sh1,000, the Daily Nation bought enough material to make a bomb powerful enough to blow up a large room. The sale of such substances is supposed to be tightly controlled in law. The material included what a leading bomb [...]
KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan police announced Tuesday that they had found an explosives-laden vest at a popular nightclub here in the capital, thwarting another potential bomb attack just days after three deadly explosions ripped through crowds watching the World Cup championship game. The authorities also said they had arrested four foreign nationals in connection with [...]
Spanish fans danced the night away in a joyous fiesta after their first ever World Cup triumph Sunday, but silence fell across the Netherlands as the country again tasted the bitterness of defeat. A thunderous roar erupted from a sea of people dressed in red and gold in Madrid as Spain — perennial World Cup [...]
Mr. Abdi Ibrahim Warsame (Qowdhan) Deputy Minister of Finance who is also Acting Minister of Finance Puntland State, Somalia Garowe: On 23rd of June 2010, a Gallad chartered airplane loaded with illegal banknotes cargo, constituting of 17.5 billion Somali shillings landed at Galkayo Airport. The Puntland Government intelligence sources confirmed that the printing of these [...]
The Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, one of Shiite Islam’s highest religious authorities and an early mentor of the militant group Hezbollah, died in Beirut on Sunday. Octavia Nasr, a 20-year CNN veteran based in Atlanta, wrote on Twitter: “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah … One of Hezbollah’s giants [...]
Four guns went missing and were believed to have been stolen from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security detail after American Airlines lost luggage containing the weapons, NBC reported. It said the Glock 9mm guns had been placed in checked baggage — as security protocol dictates — at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport [...]
Somalis in regions controlled by Islamist extremists have staged protests against plans by an East African regional bloc to send 2,000 additional peacekeepers to Somalia. Witnesses say hundreds of people in al-Shabab-controlled towns in Lower Jubba, Hiran, Gedo, Middle Shabelle, and Bay regions protested IGAD’s plan to send more troops to Somalia under the African [...]
The over–hyped presidential election in the one-clan based secessionist enclave calling itself Somaliland, otherwise the NW region of Somalia, is more than a race for the post among the competing candidates. It is above all a well-organised show to con the international community for recognition. Its message is that here in the enclave, peace and [...]
The IGAD Assembly of Heads of State and Government held its 15th Extra- Ordinary Summit Meeting in Addis Ababa, on 5th July 2010, under the Chairmanship of H.E. Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and Chairperson of the IGAD Assembly to consider the political and security situation in Somalia. Read [...]
Iran rejected on Tuesday claims by some of its officials that fresh U.S. sanctions on Tehran had prompted airports in Britain, Germany and the United Arab Emirates to refuse to refuel its planes. “The refueling of our planes is continuing,” foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters. “That information is false,” he said when asked [...]
Anti-government demonstrators, including women dressed in full hijabs brandishing AK-47 automatic rifles, marched through the streets of Somalia’s violence-torn capital Monday. The marchers shouted slogans and carried English-language signs accusing the African Union Mission in Somalia, or AMISOM, a peacekeeping military force backing the government, of killing people. “AMISOM killed my mummy” and “AMISOM get [...]
Prime Minister Raila Odinga was on Sunday discharged from the Nairobi Hospital, six days after he underwent a head operation. The PM – with his wife Ida and close family members in tow – emerged from North wing of the hospital at exactly 11am with a radiant smile, waving at the crowd that had milled [...]
Lebanon’s top Shia Muslim cleric, seen as a key figure in the founding of militant group Hezbollah, has died at the age of 74. Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah was regarded as Hezbollah’s spiritual guide after the group was founded in 1982, a charge both denied. An implacable critic of the US, he had a [...]
Somalia’s prime minister has named members of a powerful moderate Islamic militia to the Cabinet, more than three months after the government signed a power-sharing deal with them. Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke appointed late Saturday members of Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama to the ministries of National Security, Finance, Health and Education. To accommodate [...]
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