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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan and Somali soldiers killed five suspected Islamic extremist bombers attempting to cross into the country from Ethiopia in a car laden with explosives and six suicide vests, a Kenyan military spokesman said Sunday. Bogita Ongeri said authorities recovered 100kg (220 pounds) of TNT from the vehicle which was intercepted at…
1. At the invitation of His Excellency Engineer Prosper Bazombanza, First Vice President of the Republic of Burundi, His Excellency Dr. Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed, Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia, paid an official visit to the Republic of Burundi from the 15th October to the 16th October 2014. 2. Upon arrival at…
Somali Ministry of Health Ali Mohamed Mohamud (Ali Hared) has dismissed reports that troops from the Ebola-hit country of Sierra Leone will be deployed in the country. Ali said that they had an earlier agreement with the AU mission not to bring troops from West African countries reeling under the deadly virus that has so…
It’s not often that we hear of a battle of ideas between reformist the Muslim scholars and fundamentalist clerics of Somalia, who are fighting tooth and nail to silence the voice of moderation and reformation. Somali Muslim academics are calling for a review of the narrative of the Islamist ideologues that encourages youngsters to participate…
EXCLUSIVE: A decision by Australian banks to close down remittance facilities to Somalia could lead to an increase in the black market and may even play into the hands of terror groups, experts say. Many believe the move will force the prolific remittance industry underground, and play directly into the hands of terror groups. Thousands…
PARIS, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Somalia’s president said on Friday that nobody close to him had been involved in the unauthorised diversion of government weapons to Islamist militants and denied that a man U.N investigators linked to the arms trade had advised him. He was responding to a report from the United Nations’ Somalia-Eritrea Monitoring…
Addis Ababa (AFP) – Somali Islamist insurgents are plotting to attack an upmarket area of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, the US embassy has warned, in a notice to citizens to avoid crowded areas. The exact target is not known but the embassy said the “potential imminent terrorist attack” threatened the busy Bole district, which includes…
On October 12 and 13, Task Force 508 of NATO’s counter-piracy Operation Ocean Shield conducted training with Somali Coast Guard personnel. The training took place off the coast of the town of Hobyo, and marks the first time Somali maritime forces have been trained in their territorial waters. On Monday afternoon, the Commanding Officer of…
A documentary about Safe about the Somali Sailor’s Community in Cardiff. Somalis in the United Kingdom include British citizens and residents born in, or with ancestors from, Somalia. It is thought that the United Kingdom is home to the largest Somali community in Europe, with 99,484 Somali-born residents of England recorded by the 2011 Census,…
(MENAFN – Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday met with Somali Federal President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud for talks on security issues in Somalia and France’s contribution to shoring up the Federal authorities in Mogadishu. Hollande’s office recalled that France is helping with training of Somali security forces and in financing the…
Yesterday, the Federal Government of Somalia and the State of Puntland signed an agreement to resume relations and work together to build a federal state. I welcome this agreement and congratulate everyone for their willing and constructive input. We have been through many difficult years as a nation. Inclusive political settlement, built upon nationally-led reconciliation…
A Washington County deputy was placed on leave, then suspended over the course of four months this year for unprofessional conduct after an investigation found that he told a suspect of Somali descent that he killed several Somalis while in the military and engaged in other misconduct during a December 2013 arrest, according to records…
A cafeteria food fight turned into a riot at South High School in Minneapolis in February last year. The school’s security officers were insufficient to the task. Police officers dispatched to the scene sprayed mace and placed the school on lockdown to get a handle on the situation. Three or four students and a staff…
It’s everything we appreciate and love about Toronto … Ward 1 is multicultural, it’s very green—we have the Humber River—and a very young demographic. It’s really an area that’s trying to figure out its identity, post-industrial economy. It is very far from City Hall—we’re closer to Brampton City Hall than downtown—and there are a lot…
A popular Somali band has been forced to seek asylum in the Netherlands after Kenya revoked its refugee status, its lead singer has told the BBC. Falis Abdi Mohamud said Kenyan officials seized her refugee card and that of four other band members when they flew out of Nairobi last month. The band – famous…
U.N. investigators have accused an advisor to Somalia’s president of involvement in the unauthorized diversion of Somali government weapons to Islamist militants with ties to al Qaeda, according to a confidential new report seen by Reuters. The accusation by the Somalia-Eritrea Monitoring Group, an eight-member panel of independent experts that oversees compliance with U.N. sanctions…
Terrorists such as those from the Islamic State won’t be stopped unless Christians help to save the lost boys of the world. The Lost Boys of Sudan fled violent Islamists, communists and wild animals. Their exodus led them across Ethiopia and eventually to refugee camps in neighboring nations. From camps, the boys were taken to…
Nairobi (AFP) – War-torn Somalia’s government remains riddled with corruption while Shebab Islamists are as deadly as ever, United Nations investigators warned in a damming report seen by AFP Monday. The report also documents that weapons sent to the national army and supposed to be used to defend the country’s internationally-backed government have instead been…
Rome, October 13 – An Italian Ebola scare ended Monday when Umberto I Hospital doctors found that a young Somali man who fainted at an immigration office was an epileptic. The man fell ill while queuing to get his asylum permit extended at a Rome police office. “He had convulsions, a high fever and blood…
Mogadishu – A bomb tore through a senior policeman’s car in Somalia’s capital on Monday, a day after suspected Islamist militants shelled an area where the president was due to speak and attacked a city centre cafe, witnesses and officials said. No one claimed responsibility for the assaults which officials said wounded two mechanics working…