Tag: News in English

Washington 15 April 2015 (SDN/QJ) Eighteen months, hundreds of thousands of travel miles, and countless cups of hotel coffee later, the world’s top powers strode up to the stage with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif on April 2 and declared “mission accomplished” – at least for the next three months. The central tenets of…

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…

The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the shooting attack on a Somali photographer in Mogadishu and calls on authorities to thoroughly investigate the case and ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice. Farhan Suleiman Dahir works for the state-run Radio Mogadishu, whose journalists have been targeted several times in recent years. “Journalists like Farhan Suleiman…

Hundreds of Kenyan Somali youth trained by the government to fight al Shabaab have disappeared, a politician has said. New Ford Kenya party leader Eugene Wamalwa said the youth may be plotting attacks against Kenya. He spoke on Saturday during the burial of Mama Mary Ezna Khavulani at Milima in Tongaren subcounty, Bungoma county. Wamalwa…

Durban – A Somali shopkeeper, protected by heavily armed riot police, loaded what remained of his stock into a bakkie in Lindelani, near KwaMashu, on Monday night. – Are you there? Send us your eyewitness accounts and photos. Bashir Mahmoud, 27, said he had not slept for six days fearing he may be killed and…

The St. Cloud Area School District has once again caught the attention of the federal Department of Education over its treatment of Somali-American students. Civil rights officials with the U.S. Department of Education and the Justice Department are visiting the district this week to check its progress on a four-year-old agreement in which the district…

The Kenyan government has begun constructing a security wall along its border with Somalia to curb cross-border incursions by Somali Al-Shabaab militants. Director of Immigration Services Gordon Kihalangwa, who officially broke the ground in Mandera late on Monday, urged the locals to support the project which he said would help prevent Al Shabaab militants from…

MOGADISHU // Somalia’s Al Qaeda-linked Shabab militants killed 15 people and wounded 20 on Tuesday when they blasted their way into the higher education ministry with a car bomb before storming the building. Police and witnesses said the car bomb caused a huge explosion which allowed the gunmen to force their way shooting into the…

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…

Somaliland is a nation with a long history, it was the first country that gained it is independence off all Somali Speaking communities from the kingdom of UK and Ireland in 26th June 1960, within the same year joined with the southern regions under Italian colony, with no sign of conditions concerned to the unification…

The United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Saturday it had not received a formal request from Kenya to remove a huge refugee camp housing hundreds of thousands of people from Somalia. Earlier, Deputy President William Ruto said unless the UNHCR in Kenya relocated the remote Dadaab settlement near the Somali border, then the authorities…

A panicked student was killed and 150 more were hurt in a stampede on Sunday when an electrical blast sparked fears of a new Islamist attack on a Kenyan university campus. Some students jumped from as high as the fifth floor of a hostel at the University of Nairobi campus after the pre-dawn explosion, vice-chancellor…

  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…

Kenya has given the United Nations three months to remove a camp housing more than 500,000 Somali refugees as part of a get-tough response to the killing of 148 people by Somali gunmen at a Kenyan university. Kenya has, in the past, accused Islamist militants of hiding out in the Dadaab camp, which it now…

Mogadishu, April 10, 2015-The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemns in the strongest terms possible the assassination attempt against a Somali journalist in Mogadishu’s Hodan district on Friday afternoon around 5:00pm local time, the latest in a string of violence against the media professionals in Somalia. Armed gunmen believed to be Shabab members shot…

MOMBASA, Kenya, April 10 (Xinhua) — Somalia said on Friday that Kenyan troops which are fighting militants in the southern part of the Horn of Africa nation should pull out of the country in 2017. Somalia Foreign Affairs Minister Abdisalam Omer said in Mombasa that the move was part of an agreement reached under the…

Somalia’s government has placed bounties on the heads of 11 al-Shabab leaders, including the militant group’s top leader and the alleged mastermind of last week’s massacre in Kenya. The bounties, announced Thursday, include a reward of $250,000 for the capture of al-Shabab chief Ahmed Omar Abu Ubyed, and amounts of between $100,000 and $150,000 for…