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  The political history of the flora and fauna exposes that around 95.13% of the 248 dependent territories and independent states have been colonised by the Western countries, mostly in Britain, which invaded more than 90% of the world countries, although not fully colonised. Britain conquered 223 territories, but officially colonised more than 80 countries…

MINNEAPOLIS–Abdi Mohamed strode into a coffee shop on a recent morning and took a lap around the place, shaking hands with about a dozen men as they paused their lively discussions of the news of the day to give him a warm greeting. “This is our place,” he said of the Starbucks in the Seward…

MANDERA (Xinhua) — Suspected Somali ‘al-Shabaab’ militants kidnapped two Kenyan teachers on Friday evening in the Mandera border town. Mandera County Commissioner Alex Nkoyo confirmed the incident, saying the names of the two primary school teachers could not be immediately established were abducted. “We are investigating the incident which took place at around 4.00 p.m….

In an effort to smooth frayed relations between the city’s Somali-American community and law enforcement, Rep. Keith Ellison traveled to south Minneapolis today to meet with friends and relatives of four Twin Cities men accused of plotting to join the Islamic State. Ellison’s office declined to discuss the details of the closed-door meeting Friday afternoon…

The Somali militant group al-Shabab says it has executed a man in the south of the country for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad. An al-Shabab court said the man, identified as Mohamud Mursal Muse, confessed to insulting the prophet in the town of Jamame, 30 kilometers north of Kismayo. An audio recording of an al-Shabab…

A Minneapolis man was charged Friday with threatening law enforcement officials and writing on Twitter that a “massacre” would happen if authorities did not free six men who were arrested earlier this week and accused of trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group. According to an FBI affidavit, Mahamed Abukar Said…

MANDERA, Kenya, April 23 (Xinhua) — Somali Al-Shabaab militants have killed a Kenyan official abducted early Thursday after failing to receive 43,800 U.S. dollar ransom.  Mandera County Police Commander Job Boronjo confirmed the incident, saying the body identified as Mkutar Otieno was found in Badhere area with bullet wounds. The vehicle the gang had also…

Attorneys for four Minnesota men accused of trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group questioned the government’s use of a paid informant, and argued Thursday that the case against their clients is slim. But U.S. Magistrate Judge Becky Thorson found there was probable cause to believe a crime was committed, and…

Habiba Alin lies crouched on a neatly spread bed rest on the floor adorned with colorful Somali outfits. Inside a dome shaped thatched hut at Bulajogo village in Wajir district of Woqooyi Bari Somali region which is occupied by Kenya, she rests her head on a second hand pillow tucked over the makeshift she has called…

(Reuters) – Somali and African forces aim to drive al Shabaab Islamist militants out of one of the last major tracts of territory in southern Somalia that the group still holds and which it uses to launch attacks, the Somali prime minister said on Thursday. Omar Sharmarke also told Reuters he was pressing Kenya to…

* Four of the dead were UNICEF staff * Top U.N. envoy for Somalia brands attack “despicable” * Al Shabaab militants have stepped up attacks this year (Updates death toll, U.N. officials, president’s comments) By Abdiqani Hassan BOSASSO, April 20 (Reuters) – Somali militant group al Shabaab bombed a minivan carrying staff to a United…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Somali-American who joined Islamic State as a fighter is alive and still trying to recruit young men from Minnesota to join him, law enforcement officials and a Somali community leader said, despite a report that he might have been killed in Syria. Abdi Nur, 20, who left Minneapolis for Syria last…

MOGADISHU: A suicide bomber from the Somali militant group Al-Shabab Tuesday rammed a car laden with explosives into a busy restaurant in the capital Mogadishu, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than a dozen others. The lunch-hour explosion also wrecked a tea shop next door and set fire to nearby petrol drums, sending…

The families of six Somali-American men arrested for allegedly planning to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State militant group deny the accusations. The men have been charged with conspiracy and attempting to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization. The mother of two of the men, Mohamed Farah and Adnan Farah, said…

Abstract French literary theorist Jacques Chevrier argues that immigration is at the heart of contemporary African literature. He calls this new corpus of African literature migritude. Migritude literature provides both a new and sophisticated way of understanding immigration in the era of global capitalism and a critical engagement with it; it lends new perspective to…

(Reuters) – Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist group claimed responsibility for an attack on a United Nations vehicle in the northeastern town of Garowe, where at least nine people were killed on Monday. “We are behind the Garowe attack,” Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab’s military operations spokesman, told Reuters

The Somali security forces have forcibly evicted about 21,000 displaced people in the capital, Mogadishu, in early March 2015, United States based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday. According to the rights group, the authorities beat some of those evicted on March 4 and 5, destroyed their shelters, and left them without water, food,…