Kenyan security forces are scoureing border regions with war-torn Somalia in the hunt for armed kidnappers who seized four aid workers from Dadaab. Dadaab is the world’s largest refugee camp. The two men and two women who work with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), come from Canada, Norway, Pakistan and the Philippines. A Kenyan driver [...]
Federal officials were scrambling Friday to learn more about the fate of a Canadian, reportedly one of four international aid workers officials in Kenya said were kidnapped in their country by Somali militants. “What I can say is that we are aware of a reported kidnapping in Kenya,” said Claude Rochon, a spokeswoman for the [...]
Thousands of Somali nationals have fled to Yemen over the past years to escape the violence and hard-line regime imposed by the al-Shabaab movement. Somali refugees walk in the Basateen slum near the Yemeni southern port city of Aden in 2010. [AFP] Yemenis look at the wreckage of a car destroyed in the suicide attack [...]
It is a rainy Sunday afternoon in Peckham, south-east London, and if recent sensational reports are to be believed, I am shortly going to risk my life. Behind a blue door on an otherwise unremarkable residential street is a mafrish – the name given to the houses-cum-social clubs devoted to the chewing of khat. I [...]
Iyadoo malinimada axada ee fooda inagu soo heyso ay ku baagan tahay 1-da luulyo oo ah maalintii ay midooween gobolada koonfurta & gobolada waqooyi ee dalka somaliya ayaa waxaa magaladani Mombasa laga dareemayaa qaban qaabo & diyaar garow ku aadan sidii looqab lahaa koob iyo munaasabad ku aadan 1-da luulyo oo ah maalintii ay midoowen [...]
Kulanti wacan oo wanaagsan dhamaan akhristayaasheena qiimah iyo qaayaha inaga mudanow sidaan hore idinku balanqaadnay inaan idin bilaawi doona barnaamijkii arimaha bulshada oo an ku soo qaadan doona manta oo jimca ah darsi diin ah oo ku saabsan arimaha qoyska, Iyadoo aan ogsoonahay in qoyska lagu dhiso ama lagu taago tiirarkiisa dhaqanka iyo macaamilka suuban [...]
Waxaa dhamaan loogu bishaarey naayaa akhristayaasheena qiimaha iyo qaayaha inaga mudan ee ku xiran warbaahinta caalamiga ee (Somalpost.com) in goor dhow la bilaawi doona barnaamij aad u xiiso badan oo aan isleenahay wey ka faa,ideysan doonaan akhristayaasheena qiimaha iyo qadarinta inaga mudan, hadal badan haan mabuuxshee aan idiin bidhaamiyo barnaamijka aan idin kugu tala galnay. [...]
The speaker of Somali parliament Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden, called on Wednesday upon the people of Somalia to support new draft constitution for the country. Speaking reporters in Mogadishu, Somali parliament speaker, spoke out those who have still unconstructive view against the draft constitution meant to rule the country that has lacked an effective government [...]
Attacks by pirates have fallen in recent months, thanks to active patrolling by coalition navies and the arrival of the Southwest Monsoon. Governments led by the UAE, and the shipping industry feel this is the right time to get on with the development work in Somalia and focus on the plight of crews and vessels [...]
The way of life of minorities and indigenous communities in East and Horn of Africa is under threat as governments and investors expand natural resource extraction on their lands, Minority Rights Group International (MRG) says in its 2012 annual report. State of the Worlds Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2012 documents the scale and severity of [...]