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NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s top opposition leader on Wednesday said a statement by the country’s president that local political networks were responsible for two days of killings that left 60 people dead “trivialized” the massacre. Raila Odinga, the country’s former prime minister and runner-up in the last presidential election, said a statement by President Uhuru…
TWO nights of terror attacks on Kenya’s coast on June 15th and 16th left at least 65 people dead, prompting the Shabab, a Somali militia of extreme Islamists, to boast that it had turned the country into a “war zone”. The killings mark a change of gear. Previously the group has mainly committed sporadic acts…
As many as 15 Somali-American men have left their homes in Minnesota in recent months to travel to the Middle East and join up with ISIS, the jihadist army at war with Syria and Iraq, according to Minnesota Public Radio. The fighters appear to have made the decision to go fight with Islamic State of…
Mogadishu, 19 June, 2014– His Excellency President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud today paid a surprise visit to a meeting in Mogadishu that had been organized by MPs and members of the public. During the visit he met with Dr Osman Mohammud Dufle, who was recently nominated for a Noble Prize and, during a short speech which…
Muqdisho June 19, 2014(SDN/QJ)– Today, the Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia, Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed, and European Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, signed the country’s first European Commission – Somalia National Indicative Programme (NIP) in the past 25 years following Somalia’s recent accession to the Cotonou Agreement . Prime Minister Abdiweli underscored…
Mogadishu, 19 June 2014 – H.E. Farah Sheikh Abdulkadir, the Minister of Justice & Constitutional Affairs today welcomed the overwhelming approval of the Federal Parliament for the Independent Review & Implementation Commission. 134 members of the parliament voted in favor of the commission yes, 9 voted against, while 10 abstained. The Minister said “A milestone…
The British Red Cross has announced new online features on the charity’s website, to help people from Somali and Congolese communities in the UK to re-connect with their loved ones. The new web features offer an improved interactive platform with cleaner page layouts, simplified language, comprehensive case-study videos and an intuitive site-wide navigation system….
Police say they have encountered widespread support among Somalis for a ban on use of a plant stimulant. Officers are running an awareness campaign to spell out the consequences of buying or selling khat, which become criminal acts next week. Critics of the drug, which is already illegal in most of Europe, as well as…
When Kenya took its anti-terror war to the doorsteps of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab in Somalia in 2011, its mission was to cripple and wipe out the militants. The military incursion was launched after the Muslim extremists kidnapped several tourists and virtually brought tourism in Kenya, one of the country’s top foreign exchange earners, to its knees….
A white man speaking ‘fluent English’ was in charge of an Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab which gunned down at least 60 people in a Kenyan coastal town on Sunday evening, according to witnesses. Several residents in Mpeketoni reported that they saw a pale-skinned man who spoke English and Arabic giving orders to the gunmen. The…
Nairobi, Wednesday, June 18, 2014— His Excellency the Prime Minister of Somalia Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed is on an official visit to Kenya to attend the 99th session of the meeting of countries in the African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States. The Prime minister also met with the Deputy President of Kenya H.E. William Ruto…
A special counter-terrorism police force has killed “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL) leader Abu Ayoub al-Somali, a Somali national, and his aide, Iraqi police in Diyala province said Tuesday (June 17th). Acting on information provided by detainees, the force ambushed a car carrying al-Somali and his assistant — a Syrian national —…
NAIROBI Kenya (Reuters) – Kenya’s president shifted blame to domestic rivals on Tuesday for two attacks that killed 65 people on the coast and he dismissed claims of responsibility by Somali Islamist militants, which Nairobi usually fingers for such assaults. Somalia’s al Shabaab militant group has said its gunmen carried out the attacks on the…
NAIROBI, Kenya — The gunmen went door to door in the Kenyan costal town, demanding to know if the men inside were Muslim and if they spoke Somali. If the extremists did not like the answers, they opened fire, witnesses said on Monday. Authorities blamed al-Shabab, a Somali al-Qaida-linked group, for the hours-long assault on Mpeketoni…
Mogadishu, 15 June, 2014 – His Excellency President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud today accepted the credentials of the new Canadian ambassador to Somalia, Mr David Angel. The Ambassador thanked H.E. the President for accepting his credentials and he promised to strengthen the bilateral relations between the two countries. He also conveyed a personal message from Prime…
Addis Ababa, 14 June 2014 (WIC) – The Prime Minister of the Somali Federal Republic who recently returned from his trip to Addis Ababa, reported that he discussed with his Ethiopian counterpart on cooperating in peacekeeping Somalia. Mr. Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed said that he reached an agreement with his Ethiopian counterpart that the Ethiopian soldiers…
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) expressed deepening concern about the attrition of press freedom in Somaliland, where they have numerous times arrested critical journalists and shutter independent news media, following the arrest of the chairman Haatuf and Somaliland Times Newspapers by the Somaliland police. Police in Hargeysa on Saturday arrested the chairman of…
Mogadishu – Rival Somali regions have sent troops into disputed flashpoint zones in the north of the war-torn nation, Britain, the European Union and the United States said on Saturday in a joint appeal for calm. Troops from self-declared Somaliland in the northwest and soldiers from autonomous Puntland in the northeast have moved into contested…
Mogadishu, 14 June 2014 – H.E. Mustafa Duhulow today spoke to the media in Mogadishu to provide an update on government progress over the last week. The Minister spoke on various issues including Sheikh Atom’s rejection of Al-Shabaab, the progress on the Stabilization Plan, the recent fighting in Lower Shabelle, initiatives to clean streets by…
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemns in the strongest terms possible the continued harassment against the media workers in Kismayo, after another journalist was beaten at the gunpoint by the members of the Security forces of Interim Jubba Administration, the latest in a string of violence against the journalists and the media workers…