The case of a Somali-born man who was stripped of his British citizenship and recently sentenced in New York to nine years in federal prison on terrorism charges is being held up by civil liberties advocates as an example of the harsh US treatment of suspects linked to Islamic extremism and overreach by American authorities […]
As the nation faces its dilemmas with Islamaphobia within every corner of the country, St. Cloud served as one place where the conversations about race and religion are continuously growing. Last Thursday evening, Somali panelists spoke to a room full of community members about what it is really like to be Muslim in Minnesota as […]
Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke said his government had talked with Kenyan officials over the airstrike to be stopped in El-Adde region in southern Somalia where Al-Shabaab fighter killed several Kenyan soldiers on Jan. 15. “I named a fact-finding committee headed by the Minister of Defense to assess the situation in Gedo region, […]
An appeals court ruling which denied an alleged war criminal from Somalia immunity from prosecution in a US courtroom is only a partial success, a human rights group said on Monday. The decision by the fourth circuit court of appeals in Virginia has opened a path for an individual lawsuit for torture and attempted murder […]
The hole in the airplane’s side appeared just after takeoff from Mogadishu at 10,000ft (3,048m), a co-worker of one of the passengers told the sources. It’s not clear what caused the damage. The Daallo Airlines flight was taking about 60 people on board, a police officer in the scene told the Bloomberg news agency. Some […]
In 2009, Somaliland’s biggest mobile network operator, Telesom, launched their mobile payment service “ZAAD”, and today more than 10% of the 3.8 million inhabitants are subscribed to the service. As with normal mobile money systems, you can transfer, receive, and deposit money with ZAAD. The mobile money service is used for different purposes such as […]
Ethiopian immigrants returning from Saudi Arabia arrive at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa MOGADISHU– In Saudi Arabia, employers have a history of abusing foreign domestic workers lured by the promise of well-paid jobs in what former workers described as an exploitation of desperate Africans facing grim choices. New cases of abuses against Somali domestic […]
Djibouti’s government has launched a solar power plant this week, in an attempt to reduce the skyrocketing electricity costs largely generated from imported diesel fuel, which is subject to price fluctuations in the global market. The project which aims to generate all the country’s power renewables in the next five years was launched in Adeylu, […]
African heads of state are expected to address some of the most pressing violent conflicts on the continent, such as Burundi and South Sudan. They are meeting in Addis Ababa for two days at African Union headquarters. Despite its theme of human rights, with a particular focus on women, this African Union summit is once […]
BORAMA—–Borama City Hall announced that it has organized intensive campaigns against stray animals which resulted in the extermination of large number of stray dogs in Borama which pause health and safety threat to the residents. Borama authority kills stray dogs on Saturday, the opening day of a campaign to cull dog packs roaming the the provincial capital of Awdal. Veterinarians […]