Somali community in Britain begins to find its voice
They like to talk in the dimmed light of the Food Palace, a Somali cafe in west London. As daylight recedes, men of a certain age sip coffee, nibble on finger dishes or grapple with big round plates of rice and lamb, all the while bouncing opinions back and forth. Much to talk about this week, as William Hague and the government embark on their grand More...
Kenyan troops strike key Al-Shabaab town
Kenyan troops intensified attacks on Al-Shabaab in Somalia with air strikes on a key rebel settlement at the weekend. They carried out air strikes in Xhwayo Town, 30 kilometres from Belles Qoockani Town on their More...
Deprivation and Despotism in Djibouti
On Wednesday, 22 February 2012, President Guelleh of Djibouti will make a rare visit to London, to attend the London Conference on Somalia. He will of course be greeted with courtesy. The dire state of his nation More...
UN move to boost AU Somalia force seen by next week.
Sponsors of a U.N. resolution to boost by nearly half an African force trying to defeat Islamist militants in Somalia are seeking to have the Security Council pass it by the middle of next week, diplomats said on More...
Galkayo IDPs suffer as aid agencies pull out.
More and more aid agencies are withdrawing from South Galkayo in central Somalia’s self-declared autonomous state of Galmudug, due to increased insecurity: Five months after a militia kidnapped two aid workers, More...
UAE aid ‘urgently needed’ in Somalia.
ABU DHAB – The former president of Ghana, Jerry Rawlings, has stressed the urgent need for UAE financial aid to help with the crisis in Somalia. Speaking on the sidelines of the Centre for Technology and Economic More...
Somalia President: Al-Qaeda now ‘a colonial power’.
Somalia’s President wants Al-Qaeda listed as a colonial power in the Horn of Africa country following its announcement of a merger with Al-Shabaab, the radical Islamist group, in Somalia last week. “We More...
Somalian children Suffer as politics hinder food aid.
Children in Somalia continue to suffer needlessly from hunger as politics hinder the much needed distribution of food aid. In Somalia, it is women and children who bear the brunt of the famine. Children are susceptible More...
Region must stop Shabaab from exporting terror.
Nobody is surprised that Somalia’s Al Shabaab extremists have formally announced they are joining Al Qaeda, the global terror group they have been affiliated to for years. As US counter-terrorism officials More...
Is Malaria Twice as Deadly as We Think It Is?
The news that malaria kills almost twice as many people a year as previously believed — not 655,000 but a staggering 1.2 million — is only the latest evidence of how poorly even the best scientists and researchers More...