Tag: News in English

Led by the majority leader in the national assembly Adan Duale, the leaders regretted that refugee camps have become bleeding ground for terrorist activities that has claimed many lives in Kenya. “We are ready to change the law to facilitate repatriation of refugees to help the government fight terrorism. Leaders from the northern region will…

  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…

As the economy picks up across Minnesota, the state’s Somali-born population continues to battle higher than average unemployment. The most recent figures, for 2011-2013, put Somalis’ unemployment at 21 percent, about three times the rate for the general population during the same period of time. Some Somali community leaders are concerned that the lack of…

A Somali immigrant mother’s relentless campaign to expand care for poor children with autism has achieved a major triumph, as Minnesota becomes one of the first states in the nation to subsidize a broad range of intensive therapies for the developmental disorder. The federal government has approved Minnesota’s request to pay for expensive one-on-one therapies…

More than 100 Somalis protested outside Milton Keynes Council’s offices on Wednesday after a couple had their five children taken from them by social services. The parents claim they have been treated unfairly after the children, who are aged from three months to nine years old, were taken into care seven days ago. But council…

GARISSA: At least 147 students were massacred when Somalia’s militant group attacked a Kenyan university on Thursday, the government said, after the deadliest attack in the country since US embassy bombings in 1998. Hurling grenades and firing automatic rifles, the masked gunmen stormed the university in the northeastern town of Garissa as students were sleeping,…

Like of a sudden flash of lightening , it was the first time  a coalition air strike, and heavy bombardment led by Saudi Arabia, backed by the United States of America was launched to Yemen   on 25th of march 2015, which they claimed that this operation was subject to subdue  the houths with the assistance…

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…

A former al-Shabab intelligence official, claiming the Somali militant group “basically” no longer has relations with long-time ally al-Qaida, has raised the possibility it could align itself with the Islamic State group. Zakariya Hersi told VOA’s Somali service that if al-Shabab militants “feel they need foreign relations, since the other ties were cut, then they…

This story is part of an occasional series about individuals who don’t have much money or power but do have a big impact on their communities. Almost 70,000 refugees — victims of war, hardship and persecution — are allowed into the U.S. each year. But settling into their new homes can be a challenge, from…

WHEN the British and Swedish ambassadors to Somalia recently queued up to meet a new member of the government appointed by the third prime minister in 18 months, the man they met was so new to Somali politics that a government adviser was unsure of his name. But it was not long before Mohamed Omar…

  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…

KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan police said on Tuesday they are investigating whether the killing of a prosecutor in Kampala was carried out by Somalia’s Islamic extremist group al-Shabab. Joan Kagezi, a prosecutor in the ongoing trial of about a dozen men facing terror charges, appears to have been the victim of a targeted assassination, Patrick…

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Dozens of Yemeni refugees fleeing the fighting and Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen have arrived in the northern parts of Somalia, local officials and the U.N. said on Tuesday. At least 32 Yemenis arrived by sea in the northern breakaway area of Somaliland and the semiautonomous Puntland region on Saturday, according to…

Three women on Monday were brought before a court in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa after having been arrested by security forces at the border with Somalia for allegedly planning to travel to Syria. “From our interrogation, the Tanzanians confessed to officers in Mombasa that their intention was to enter Somalia and meet a certain……