Somalia National Army (SNA)-backed by the African Union peacekeeping mission (AMISOM) on Friday destroyed an Al-Shabaab compound in southern Somalia. (more…)
Alibaba founder teach, train and educate young East Africans on e-commerce
Chinese Billionaire Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group on Friday attended a YouthConnect Africa 2017 summit in Kigali, Rwanda, where he promised to set up a project working with the universities in the continent on e-commerce. (more…)
China would consider sending troops for Djibouti-Eritrea
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — China would consider sending peacekeeping troops to a disputed Djibouti-Eritrea border region after Qatar pulled out its troops last month, China’s top diplomat to the African Union said Friday, as the Asian giant’s military role overseas grows. (more…)
When A Somali-American Woman Was Attacked, Support Came From An Unlikely Source
Asma Jama was out to dinner with her family at an Applebee's in Coon Rapids, Minn., in October 2015, when a woman seated nearby starting getting angry. Why? Jama, who is Somali-American and Muslim, was speaking Swahili and wearing a hijab. (more…)
The unfolding nightmare in Somalia
BAIDOA, Somalia — This town was liberated from the control of al-Shabab (an Islamist insurgent group) five years ago. But “liberated” is a relative term. The security bubble created by the presence of United Nations and Ethiopian military forces reaches less than 10 miles outside of town, leaving just a...
Three Kenyan men sentenced to death for stripping woman
Three Kenyan men who stripped and attacked a woman in a bus have been sentenced to death by a magistrate in the capital, Nairobi. (more…)
Minneapolis Somali community braces for backlash after officer shoots Justine Damond
When Mohamed Noor joined the Minneapolis police force and was assigned to patrol the city's southwest corner, the Somali community there - the nation's largest - threw a party for him to celebrate. (more…)
Minneapolis Somali community braces for backlash after officer shoots Justine Damond
When Mohamed Noor joined the Minneapolis police force and was assigned to patrol the city's southwest corner, the Somali community there - the nation's largest - threw a party for him to celebrate. (more…)
Social media star sparks furious calls for her arrest in Saudi Arabia after filming herself walking around in a T-shirt and short skirt
A model named Khulood shared a video on Snapchat walking through Ushaiqer, she was dressed in a short skirt, black crop top and sneakers as she was filmed (more…)
Somalia restores internet connection after weeks of outage
MOGADISHU - Somalia has restored its internet connection after repairing a severed undersea cable, a telecoms official said on Monday, after an outage that the government said had cost the economy millions of dollars a day. (more…)