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London 15 April 2015 (SDN/QJ) – European states have come under renewed pressure from human rights and refugee organisations to mount large-scale search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean after the latest migrant boat disasterl led to the drowning of an estimated 400 people. Critics say that the cancellation last year of an Italian-run sea rescue mission, Mare…
David Cameron has rarely come unstuck on the campaign trail so far, batting away questions with his usual smooth, predictable and dull responses. And when he faced an audience of schoolchildren in Bolton for BBC’s Newsround show, he must have been predicting an easy ride. But he ended up being asked the toughest question of…
President Barack Obama and President Raúl Castro of Cuba met on Saturday for a historic summit between the leaders of two countries that for the last half century have viewed one another with deep suspicion, as ideological rivals and often outright enemies. The meeting at the Summit of the Americas in Panama comes as Castro…
Russia announced Monday that it will allow the sale of advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, which would significantly improve the Islamic Republic’s air defense systems. In recent years, the United States and Israel have lobbied Moscow not to supply Tehran with such weapons, but with world powers racing toward a June 30 agreement…
NGOs have raised concerns about the disruption of a vital humanitarian lifeline after Kenya ordered the closure of 13 remittance companies specialising in money transfers to Somalia. The closures, a response to allegations that the firms have links with al-Shabaab, follow the Islimist group’s deadliest attack on Kenyan soil, the Garissa University shootings that…
Introduction The key mainstream perspectives on Foreign Policy are the self-interest strategy and Diplomacy. The former, which is the self-interest strategy refers how states blueprint and cherry-pick to safeguard, defend and maintain their own national interests. Where the latter, which is Diplomacy refers how states achieve their goals within the International Arena. In this article,…
The ongoing drought in California, now in its fourth year, is evoking calamity-pitched reactions. As one farmer recently told NBC, he’s nearing “survival mode.” In March, senior NASA scientist Jay Famiglietti warned that the state faces a “harrowing future” unless it begins mandatory water rationing. On Wednesday, April 1, for the first time in the…
Somalia is currently subject to financial sanctions. This document contains the current list of designated persons. Please Read and check the list below; 1. Name 6: AHMED 1: ABUBAKER 2: SHARIFF 3: n/a 4: n/a 5: n/a. DOB: (1) –/–/1962. (2) –/–/1967. POB: Kenya a.k.a: (1) AHMED, Abubakar (2) AHMED, Sheikh, Abubakar (3) SHARIFF, Abu…
Nemo Abdi Ahmed, age 20, left her remote village to attend the Midwifery Training School in Burao, Somaliland. A few years earlier, one of Nemo’s 17-year-old friends and a former classmate had died during childbirth. “That’s one of the main reasons that I want to learn these life-saving skills,” Nemo said. “I want to…
In an early, memorable scene of an intimate new documentary about Yemen’s Houthi rebels, a Houthi official storms into the office of a deputy finance minister and demands that he sign an order authorizing an investigation into money misappropriated by the previous government. The nonplussed minister signs the document being waved around, but the…
BEIRUT — As negotiators in Lausanne, Switzerland, agreed on a tentative deal to constrain Iran’s nuclear program and waive sanctions pending verification of the eventual terms of the agreement, countries across the Middle East have already begun to adapt to the new regional political landscape. While both the United States and Iran insist that…
Lower-Shabale- Elasha Biyaha: Explosions and heavy gunfire have been heard from Elasha Biyaha by the people of the district. It has been explored that the explosives were anti-tank mines from Al-Shabab. Two Somali military vehicles were destroyed an eye witness reported the news from Elasha Biyaha. The explosions alongside with the shootings caused the dead…
Uhuru Kenyatta is very good at rhetoric. He’s not so good at keeping Kenya safe. Now, the president is telling Kenyans that this shortcoming is no shortcoming at all, because Kenya has problems no one can solve. In the meantime, the Kenyan economy is paying the price of his inaction. Late last month, an attack by…
Just days after President Barack Obama announced a summer trip to Kenya, al-Shabab, the Islamist group that’s been terrorizing East Africa for years, provided a grim reminder that it remains a dangerous force and that U.S. efforts to dismantle it have fallen short. Early Thursday morning, militants stormed a university in Garissa, a city about 230 miles east…
Garowe. Puntland – Somalia. Madaxweynaha Maamul Goboleedka Somaliya ee Puntland ayaa nidar ku maray in uu soo celinaya dhul uu sheegay in uu ka maqan yahay oo ay Somaliland ka haysato. Waxa uu Cabdiwali Gaas sheegay in ay maanka ku hayaan sidii ay u soo celin lahaayeen Goboladda Sool iyo Sanaag iyo Buuhodle oo…
Four years after a half-hearted intervention in Libya, the country has become a breeding ground for terrorism. Washington can’t afford to look the other way anymore. BY: Christopher S. Chivvis, The Islamic State’s beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya, and Egypt’s subsequent airstrikes on Libyan soil, have relaunched debate over what…
According to the US Foreign Office, Just in time for Egypt’s military campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen, the White House announced Tuesday it would allow shipments of U.S. fighter jets, tanks, and missiles to Cairo — reversing earlier reluctance to supply heavy aid before President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi proves he has embraced democratic reforms….
As both Foreign Ministries of US and Kenya declared, President Barack Obama is set to visit his father’s homeland, Kenya, in July to take part in a summit connecting young entrepreneurs with global leaders. Travelers who want to join him must first confront the State Department and other Western governments that have long warned:…
Baidawa, South-West Administration of Somalia – The most famous and influential traditional elder Chief Ali Abdi Eido and his wife have been assassinated in Baidawa. An unidentified armed men have carried out the mission, despite the fact that, the traditional elder and his wife were present inside their house at the time of the…
The Former President of the Transitional Federal Government Sheikh Sharif Ahmed founded a new humanitarian Charity in the name of Samadoon. According to Sharif, the Charity Headquarter will be in London. He stated that his new Charity Organisation is determined to deliver humanitarian assistance to the underprivileged people of Mogadishu and other regions…