Kenya to send Somali refugees packing out

    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…

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      Job fair takes aim at Somali unemployment

      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…

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        Hundreds protest as siblings go into care

        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…

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          Kenya Economy is Destroyed by Insecurity

          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…

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            Ex-Shabab Official Claims al-Qaida Ties Dissolved

            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…

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              Reluctant to admit another failure

              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…

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                Somalia on the Mediterranean: By: Christopher S. Chivvis, A senior Political Scientist from John Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies.

                  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…

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                  Obama to Visit Kenya, Despite US Travel Ban

                    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:…

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                    Kenya arrests 3 women due to ISIL links

                    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……

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