Tag: News in English

NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 6- Police on Sunday recovered a package containing explosive chemicals believed to be used in making Improvised Explosive Devices in Eastleigh 7th street as a government crackdown on illegal immigrants continued in earnest. Nairobi County Police Commander Benson Kibue said the occupant of the room had escaped, but officers found documents showing…

April 5, 2014 (San Diego)— In a ceremony at FBI Headquarters on April 4, 2014, Director James B. Comey recognized the recipients of the 2013 Director’s Community Leadership Award. These leaders, selected by their area FBI field office, have demonstrated outstanding contributions to their local communities through service. The San Diego Division’s recipient was Ahmed Idlle,…

Baku-APA. The UN humanitarian agency said the planned spontaneous returns of Somali refugees mainly from Kenya is likely to be affected by the insecurity in central and southern parts of the Horn of Africa nation, APA reports quoting Xinhua. The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its latest report for Somalia that…

The Malaysian exploration company, Pexco Explorations (East Africa),  recently terminated  its oil exploration project that it has been undertaking for the past eight years in the Somali Region of Warder-Geladi and Ferfer localities. The Kuala Lumpur-based company signed a Petroleum Production Sharing Agreement with the Ministry of Mines on October 18, 2005 to prospect for…

There’s something about this new homework club that gives Guadalupe Herrera an edge. The tutors are speaking Spanish — and so are most of the kids. It’s the latest move by a Toronto school to offer help along cultural lines. When Guadalupe forgot the French word for rule, the Grade 6 student at St. Jude…

Kenyan parliamentarians of Somali origin call for a meeting Thursday to discuss the increasing harassment acts of Kenyan security authorities on Somali community in Kenya. Below Kerow, an elected Senator from Mandera County said in this meeting they discuss the recurrent persecution of Somalis living in Kenya. “Today as Kenyan member of parliaments, we want…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi – Members of the U.S. Army and British army instructed a 10-day civil-military co-operation course (CIMIC) for 35 Burundi National Defense Force (BNDF) soldiers in Bujumbura, Burundi, March 12-21, 2014. As another battalion of BNDF soldiers prepares to deploy to Somalia, the course taught them how to engage effectively with people in the…

The government has ordered outside auditors to examine allegations that an east London mayor sought to shore up his vote by diverting £2m in public grants to Bangladeshi and Somali groups. The communities secretary, Eric Pickles, said staff from the accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers were already in place at Tower Hamlets council. A file is being…

A-Shabaab has stepped up its recruitment campaign in small villages around El Bur in an attempt to boost its ranks to fight the encroaching allied forces and retake the territory it lost in March. The militant group has started a recruitment campaign in the villages of El Garas, Belahadle, Hindhere and Habalo Badan, all located…

April 4, 2014: For over a month soldiers and peacekeepers have been advancing south and driving al Shabaab men out of over a dozen towns containing more than 100,000 people. Counting those living in nearby villages and small settlements that comes to nearly a quarter million people liberated. The Islamic terrorists admit they have ordered…

The United Nations human rights office today voiced its concern at the “hasty” judicial process in the Somali town of Kismayo that led to the execution of man nine days after he allegedly murdered an elder, and called on authorities to impose a moratorium on the death penalty. According to reports, more than 34 people have been…

The British Red Cross has deployed a health delegate to Liberia in response to the increasing cases of Ebola in the region.   The current outbreak started in neighbouring Guinea and has so far resulted in 83 deaths and 127 suspected infections (as of April 02), according to the World Health Organisation.   Pete Garratt, British Red Cross disaster…

BELIZE CITY, BELIZE, Apr 02, 2014 (Marketwired via COMTEX) — The directors and management of Kilimanjaro Capital (gxg:KCAP)(otc pink:KIMJF) are pleased to provide an update on the Company’s interest in Somalia where Kilimanjaro Capital currently has a 5% interest in the Amsas-Coriole-Afgoi (ACA) Block of 1,161,400 acres with a prospective oil resource of 21 million…

Sahara Aden swayed and pirouetted in her bright red traditional dress, enacting a spiritual dance of her Somali Bantu people. The dance was Somali, but the venue was Milwaukee’s Washington Park. Having traveled thousands of miles from a Kenyan refugee camp to build a new life in Milwaukee, Sahara was one of several presenters representing…

NAIROBI, Kenya — The charismatic Muslim leader on Kenya’s coast was certain he would be killed. Abubakar Shariff Ahmed — known as Makaburi — told an Associated Press reporter in October that “I’m living onborrowed time.” He said this after two other Muslim leaders of a mosque that Makaburi was associated with had been killed by unidentified…

While some African countries have made huge strides in terms of peace and security, others are still struggling to find their footing, a U.N. official who monitors development in the region said. Ayaka Suzuki, 42, deputy director of the Africa I Division of the Department of Political Affairs at the United Nations Secretariat in New York, said…

On March 25, Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government, Joseph Ole Lenku, issued a directive to all refugees based in Kenya’s towns and cities to immediately relocate to Kakuma and Dadaab, two huge overcrowded refugee camps in the north-west and east of the country. According to the minister,…

In 1991, the government of Somalia collapsed. It’s nine million people who have been battling widespread starvation ever since. America and other European nations saw this as a great opportunity to rob the country of its food supply and dump their nuclear waste in Somalia’s now unprotected seas. According to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the…

MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – A prominent Kenyan Islamist, accused by the United States and U.N. Security Council of supporting the Somali militant group al Shabaab, was shot dead on Tuesday, police said. Abubakar Shariff, also known as Makaburi, was killed as he left a court compound about 15 km (10 miles) north of the port city of…

The chairman of the transportation committee for the Somali Federal Parliament Aadan Dhuubow spoke at the Parliamentary session yesterday and described that his committee disapprove of the operations going on at the Mogadishu seaport.   He added that a Turkish company will take over and maintain control of the port in Mogadishu.   Recently there have many…