Tag: News in English

A Minnesota teen has achieved the rare and prestigious honor of being accepted to all eight Ivy League schools. Munira Khalif, a senior at Mounds Park Academy in St. Paul, Minnesota, told NBC affiliate KARE that she was accepted to all eight Ivy League schools — plus several other prestigious universities. “I’m humbled to even…

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Aid agencies urge Kenya to allow Somali money transfer firms to resume operations, expressing concern that halting remittances will hurt struggling families and relief operations in Somalia. On Wednesday, Kenya suspended the licenses of 13 Somali money transfer agencies in Nairobi in an effort to curb the financing of…

Since the last time I was here, four years ago, Hargeisa – the scruffy, surprisingly large capital of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland – has changed. In small ways, and in big. There are more paved roads now, and tall buildings. The currency comes in sensible denominations, so you don’t have to carry thick, dirty…

A man was charged yesterday with having explosives and detonating cords. Ahmed Abdullahi denied this and seven other charges levelled against him. He was arrested on March 13 at Makongeni police road block in Thika town on his way to Nairobi. The court heard that Abdullahi had a 614g explosive. He was also charged with…

Nairobi (AFP) – Kenya froze key money transfer companies vital for Somalia Wednesday after the police chief issued a list of 85 people and businesses with suspected links to the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab. Top of the list issued in an official government gazette notice was alleged Shebab commander Mohamed Mohamud, said to be the mastermind behind…

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…

Mogadishu, April 06, 2015 The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) welcomes the release of blind radio Journalist and urges the government to release the remaining journalists detained in Mogadishu and Berbera and allow the radio station to resume operations, the latest in a string of attacks against the press in Somalia in 2015. Somali…

MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) – When officers ordered him out of the car, a young man hit record on his smartphone, and he captured not-so-polite words from police. “Plain and simple, if you f— with me, I’m going to break your leg before you get the chance to run. I’m being honest I don’t screw around,” the…

On Feb. 14, Keonna Thomas messaged a radical Islamic cleric in Jamaica that she was deactivating her Twitter account until she landed in Syria, fearful that authorities could “mess my plans” to join the Islamic State group. Unknown to her, deactivating the account didn’t matter, as an FBI agent continued to track her online activity…

Almost 150 people, mostly students, were massacred on a college campus in Garissa, Kenya by Somali jihadists on Thursday, April 2. Kenya is no stranger to al Shabaab attacks, yet it seems unable to contain ongoing terror threats. In April 2014, Garissa township MP Aden Duale was accused of being a sympathizer of terrorism for…

GARISSA, Kenya — Hundreds of residents of this eastern city turned out in the traffic-clogged streets on Saturday to view the bodies of four men suspected of carrying out the bloody campus assault here as Somali militants issued a statement threatening Kenya with more attacks. “I want to see them,” Muna Haji said. “I want…

5 Junior Diplomats and Departmental Directors of MOFA&IC successfully completed 6-days diplomacy training provided by the esteemed Diplomacy Academy of Turkis…h Foreign Affairs Ministry. Professionally experienced diplomats and returned ambassadors including Murat Ogus and Ercan Ozer, Numan Hazar, Turkish MOFA officials and other independent qualified professional academicians from different universities in Turkey facilitated the training…

GARISSA, Kenya (AP) — The son of a Kenyan government official has been identified as one of the gunmen who attacked a Kenyan college where 148 people were killed, authorities said Sunday. Abdirahim Mohammed Abdullahi, one of the Islamic extremists who attacked Garissa University College, was the son of a government chief in Mandera County,…

GARISSA, Kenya (Reuters) – Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Saturday that those behind an attack in which al Shabaab Islamist militants killed 148 people at a university were “deeply embedded” in Kenya, and called on Kenyan Muslims to help prevent radicalization. His televised speech in response to Thursday’s 15-hour siege at the Garissa university…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somali extremists Al-Shabab warn of more attacks in Kenya like the assault on Garissa college. According to the SITE intelligence monitoring group, the Islamic militant group issued a statement Saturday which said the attack on Garissa University College was in retaliation for killings carried out by Kenyan troops fighting the rebels…

Five people are in custody following the al-Shabab attack in eastern Kenya on Thursday which left almost 150 people dead, officials say. Some suspects were arrested while trying to flee to neighbouring Somalia, the internal security ministry said. One is said to be a security guard. At least 148 people died when gunmen attacked Garissa…